

The Seibungyo (成分魚) or Seibun is a blue oranda, named for its bluish grey silver coloration.Its actual name means Tea fish or Tea goldfish in Japanese. It has brownish scales with a color like that of chocolate. The Chakin (チャキ), also named the chocolate oranda, is a colored variant of an oranda.Its tail is somewhat equal as to the ryukin, though generally short-finned ingots are very popular and widely produced today. Its large, short round body has the characteristics of a Ranchu, with its box shaped face containing wen. The Ingot oranda, also known as the Yuan-Bao oranda, is a new Chinese variety of oranda that was crossed from a ryukin with a Ranchu.The panda oranda is a variety of oranda that is bi-colored or tri-colored, most identifiable by the black-and-white coloration for which it is named.Fish cannot be named Apaches if the blackness only exists on the fin/s. The Apache oranda is a form of oranda that bears both red and black together.The nagate oranda is a long body oranda developed in Shikoku, south west area of Japan.It is a cross between the oranda and a dorsal formed pompom. The hana fusa or pompom oranda is a pompom with a dorsal fin and headgrowth like an oranda.Chinese breeders have developed telescope eyed orandas, a cross-breeding of the telescope eye and oranda goldfish.The red-cap oranda has a silverish body with a prominent red headgrowth on the forehead.The azuma nishiki is an attractive nacreous-colored form of the oranda.More recently blue scale oranda have been developed but these fish are very rare. The Oranda can tolerate temperatures from 17 to 28 ☌ (65 to 80 ☏). Special care should be given to the wen because it is prone to bacterial infections. Due to this, the fish may have only limited eyesight or even become blind. Sometimes the wen grows enormously, covering the eyes of the goldfish. The oranda can reach 20 to 31 centimeters (8 to 12 inches) in length. The headgrowth of young fry may take one to two years to develop. Orandas are available in a variety of colors, most often orange, red, red-and-white, red-and-black, black, blue, chocolate, bronze, white or silver, black-and-white (panda-colored), red-black-and-white (tricolor), and calico colors. The back does not rise up to form a ryukin-like hump. This four-lobed and contracted tail normally spreads out broadly when the oranda stops swimming. It has a large, long and deep body accompanied by a long quadruple tail. The oranda is a metallic or matte scaled goldfish that is similar in appearance to the veiltail.

The headgrowth is described as a "wen" by Chinese aquarists. The one on the left has red-colored lips.ĭue to the fleshy outgrowth on the upper half of its head and sides of its face, the oranda has become one of the most popular goldfish.
