As mentioned in my previous diary, I must commit this year to my Ranchu projects. In order to do this, I must rearrange my priorities. I must let go some to make room for the Blue, Brown, and Purple Ranchu projects. And sad to say, I am thinking (very hard) to let go my Blue and Brown Oranda lines. I have been working hard to improve the quality of the Blue, Brown, and Purple O for several years. And I think I have accomplished the projects to a certain extent. Among the three, I plan to keep only the Purple line. I have several reasons for this choice:

1. The Purple is the most rare among the three. I considered it as the hallmark of my Oranda achievement. The blue and the brown were ingredients to produce the Purple.
2. I can always recreate the blue and brown from the purple if I want to.

With this thinking, I have started to let go all my Blue and Brown Oranda. Well, almost all. I still keep one male from each variant (the best ones) just for my collection. I have no plan to breed them in the near future, but in case I miss those lineages and have spare times, I can always cross them with my Purple.

I have taken some pictures and videos of the last two for us to enjoy. Hopefully you like them.

The headgrowth is not minimal nor excessive. I think it is decent and can still grow a little bit more with age without ever covering his eyesight. The back curve is higher than the headgrowth, to give him a strong body impression. The body length is medium with a good head – body proportion, in my opinion. He has a good body width (measured from top to bottom. If we take a straight line from the eye to the peduncle, then the line will divide the body in approximately the same portion. A good balance. The scales have beautiful shine, neatly arranged in the right side of the body. We see some out of proportion scalation in the left side behind the upper head area. The first ray of the dorsal is not very straightly upright (if we want to scrutinize in detail) but it is a good one. There is a sign of recovery from injury in the middle of the first ray, my bad. The tail angle is good, and I put a special attention on the lower lobe which has a slight nice curve towards the abdomen. This is a feature seldom remembered nowadays. The brown pattern makes him more handsome, I think. A note about the brown color: when it appears on Blue fish, the brown looks paler compared to when it appears on Purple fish. I love the fish.

The headgrowth tends to be minimalist, not highlighted enough, actually. The body has an impression to be round. It means, the length is medium short, and the body width is good. The head – body proportion is still okay. The brown color is vibrant. The dorsal and the tail are good. A special attention should be given to the tail. It is a luxurious tail! The lower lobes curve towards the abdomen, and there is a tosakin-tail flavor to it. This reminds me to my terminated Dancing Queen projects, which tried to create Oranda with Tosakin curled tail viewed from the side. I must have crossed the result from that project to my Oranda line sometimes ago. The beauty of the tail is more visible in the videos below.

Enjoy these two youtube videos!