Veiltail Goldfish

<body bgcolor="#CCCCFF" background="../../back4.jpg" text="#0000FF" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" leftmargin="0" rightmargin="0" topmargin="0" bottommargin="0" class="main"> <a name="top"></a><p align="center" class="headlink"><br>| <a href="../../index.htm" target="_top">Home</a> | <a href="veiltail.htm" target="_top">Back to Veiltail</a> | <a href="../goldfish.htm" target="_top">Back to Goldfish</a> |<br> </p> <h3 align="center">CHINESE VEILTAILS</h3> <p align="center">Photographed in Hong Kong, December 2003</p> <h4>Adult red-eyed red metallic veiltail</h4> <table cellpadding=5 cellspacing=0 border=0 align="center"> <tr> <td align=center valign=middle><img src="Chinese_red_veiltail1.jpg" width="300" height="250" border="0" alt="Chinese red-eyed red metallic veiltail"></td> <td align=center valign=middle><img src="Chinese_red_veiltail2.jpg" width="180" height="150" border="0" alt="Chinese red-eyed red metallic veiltail"></td> </tr> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle><img src="Chinese_red_veiltail3.jpg" width="250" height="210" border="0" alt="Chinese red-eyed red metallic veiltail"></td> <td align=center valign=middle><img src="Chinese_red_veiltail4.jpg" width="250" height="210" border="0" alt="Chinese red-eyed red metallic veiltail"></td> </tr> </table> <p>This is a superb fish with 100% self-colouration (i.e. the single body colour extending right to the edges of the fins) and very unusual red eyes. A second such individual was seen in the same collection, more orange-yellow in colour rather than red.</p> <p>Notice the very slight trace of the ryukin dorsal hump (but one seldom seems to see a veiltail without this). Notice also the shorter, round-tipped paired fins compared with the longer, pointed-tipped paired fins of Western veiltails, and the slightly greater fork in the tail. The fish has a good, upright dorsal fin (i.e. not drooping to one side) and relatively straight, uncurled pectoral fins.</p> <p>For their strength of body colouration, such fish would make a valuable outcross in attempting to recreate the pure self-coloured red metallic veiltails that seem to have been lost from the hobby in recent years. (<a href="../../about/enquiry1.htm" target="_top">Contact</a> the Website Author for the source of these fish).</p> <h4>Young adult metallic veiltails</h4> <p align="center"><img src="Chinese_red-white_veiltail.jpg" width="300" height="210" border="0" alt="Chinese white and red-white veiltails"></p> <p>White metallic and red-white variegated metallic veiltails from a strain with shorter, more rounded paired fins than the red fish above.</p> <h4>Young red metallic veiltail</h4> <p align="center"><img src="young_Chinese_red_veiltail.jpg" width="250" height="210" border="0" alt="young Chinese red metallic veiltail"></p> <p>Very fine, deep red body colour in a young veiltail. The fins of this fish should lengthen with age.</p> <p align="center">[<a href="vt-m.htm#top" target="main">Back</a>]    [<a href="#top">Top</a>]<br>© Bristol Aquarists' Society<br> </p> </body>