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#24513 Purple Short-Tail Ryukin

Called purple in China, but more of a rich chocolaty color.  While the area above the gill plate/behind the head usually pinches in a little on ryukin, this one has an asymmetry to that area that results in what looks like a small dent on the right side.  Still a nice fish, and the only […]

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#24498 Black/Gold Ranchu

More of a pretty bronzey color.  Large ranchu with nice stocky body and meaty head.  Great overall fish with excellent motion and balance.

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#24485 White Ranchu

Excellent profile on this one with compact body and smooth rounded back.  Cute young fish with nice potential.

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#24472 White/Red Oranda

Compact body on this one with extra cute face and long tail.   Very friendly fish.

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#24462 Red/Black Pompom Oranda

Super active and responsive fish with excellent motion and balance.  These have proven to be very hardy and nice fish since here last June.  Just a few left.  Don’t miss out.

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#24449 Black/Gold Pompom Oranda

Only one available like this.  Very unusual fish with mostly white pompoms that really stand out.

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#24439 Red/White Ryukin

Rich color on this spunky young ryukin with long tail.  Very active and responsive fish.

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#24419 White Oranda

Awesome fish in large size.  Deep stocky body and big meaty head, plus showy fins.  Great overall fish.  Just a couple of these left from last summer.  This is the best one.

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#24400 Black Oranda

Quality oranda with stocky body and showy fins.  Great overall fish with excellent motion and balance, plus very friendly with lots of personality.

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#24390 Sakura Oranda

Lovely sakura color on this one with cute head/face.

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#24381 Kirin Ranchu

Pretty kirin color on this spunky ranchu in nice size.

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#24343 Calico Ingot Oranda

Very fun fish with cute face.  This is the last one left in calico, and very pretty with random metallic scales that really shine.  Friendly and responsive with lots of personality.

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#24331 Red/White Butterfly Telescope

High-Quality butterfly.  Big, deep body on this one with beautiful showy fins.  Great overall fish.  This is the last nice large butterfly left.  Don’t miss out.

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#24322 Black Butterfly Telescope

Large showy fins on this one with big eyes.

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#24313 Red Pompom Oranda

Very friendly and responsive oranda with cute pompoms.  These have proven to be excellent fish, very hardy and active.  Not many of these left, don’t miss out.

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#24300 Red Ranchu

This one has always stood out since imported last summer.  Very deep stock body with excellent tail-tuck and cheeky face.  Given its proportions, it does lean forward a bit, but it is not a head stander and has good motion and overall balance.  Large, powerful ranchu.

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#24289 Red/White Ranchu

Smooth back on this one with cute meaty face.

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#23902 Blue Lionhead

Re-listed as previous buyer could not commit.  Don’t miss this additional chance to own this hard to find fish.  Smooth back on this one in hard to find color.  Only one available.  Eye-catching silvery/blue metallic really stands out among others in the tank.  Cute face on this friendly fish.

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#23086 Green/Blue Ranchu

Very stout body on this one with cute fat head.  Friendly fish with lots of personality.  Excellent young ranchu with lots of potential.

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#13197 Repashy Soilent Green Gel Food 500 Grams (1.1lb.)

If you want to ADD 500 Grams. of Soilent green to your FISH ORDER, please use this “buy it now” option.  This will add it to your fish invoice, and there will be no additional shipping charges when added to your fish shipment.   I don’t have another way implemented to add food to your […]

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Called purple in China, but more of a rich chocolaty color.  While the area above the gill plate/behind the head usually pinches in a little on ryukin, this one has an asymmetry to that area that results in what looks like a small dent on the right side.  Still a nice fish, and the only  short-tail available in this color.   Very active and friendly fish.  Large at “only” 5+ inches, and very powerful swimmer.

More of a pretty bronzey color.  Large ranchu with nice stocky body and meaty head.  Great overall fish with excellent motion and balance.

Excellent profile on this one with compact body and smooth rounded back.  Cute young fish with nice potential.

Compact body on this one with extra cute face and long tail.   Very friendly fish.

Super active and responsive fish with excellent motion and balance.  These have proven to be very hardy and nice fish since here last June.  Just a few left.  Don’t miss out.

Only one available like this.  Very unusual fish with mostly white pompoms that really stand out.

Rich color on this spunky young ryukin with long tail.  Very active and responsive fish.

Awesome fish in large size.  Deep stocky body and big meaty head, plus showy fins.  Great overall fish.  Just a couple of these left from last summer.  This is the best one.

Quality oranda with stocky body and showy fins.  Great overall fish with excellent motion and balance, plus very friendly with lots of personality.

Lovely sakura color on this one with cute head/face.

Pretty kirin color on this spunky ranchu in nice size.

Very fun fish with cute face.  This is the last one left in calico, and very pretty with random metallic scales that really shine.  Friendly and responsive with lots of personality.

High-Quality butterfly.  Big, deep body on this one with beautiful showy fins.  Great overall fish.  This is the last nice large butterfly left.  Don’t miss out.

Large showy fins on this one with big eyes.

Very friendly and responsive oranda with cute pompoms.  These have proven to be excellent fish, very hardy and active.  Not many of these left, don’t miss out.

This one has always stood out since imported last summer.  Very deep stock body with excellent tail-tuck and cheeky face.  Given its proportions, it does lean forward a bit, but it is not a head stander and has good motion and overall balance.  Large, powerful ranchu.

Smooth back on this one with cute meaty face.

Re-listed as previous buyer could not commit.  Don’t miss this additional chance to own this hard to find fish.  Smooth back on this one in hard to find color.  Only one available.  Eye-catching silvery/blue metallic really stands out among others in the tank.  Cute face on this friendly fish.

Very stout body on this one with cute fat head.  Friendly fish with lots of personality.  Excellent young ranchu with lots of potential.

If you want to ADD 500 Grams. of Soilent green to your FISH ORDER, please use this “buy it now” option.  This will add it to your fish invoice, and there will be no additional shipping charges when added to your fish shipment.   I don’t have another way implemented to add food to your order, so will be using this method for now.  

If you want to just buy food, please use the link on the homepage, which adds $5.80 to cover USPS Priority Shipping.  

I have been advocating the use of moist food for years.  Moist food moves more easily through the digestive tract, results in more efficient nutrient assimilation, and also minimizes balance/buoyancy problems many fish have after eating dry food.  Unfortunately, most goldfish foods have no moisture content at all.   That’s because, with the exception of frozen foods, others would spoil and have no shelf-life.  So, most goldfish food is “dry as a bone”, and ultimately not the best for the fish, even if the ingredients are high quality.   Our fish farmers raise the goldfish on moist food, so it makes no sense to switch them to a dry diet after they are imported.  We’ve addressed this issue for years by “hydrating” all of the pellets we’ve fed.  This involved a slow process of introducing moisture and refrigerating pellets to make sure they were soft throughout, and not just wetted on the outside.   This made them like little meatballs, but they still held together and didn’t fall apart in the tank.  Well, we have quit messing around with pellets!  That’s because after months of trials, and many conversations with fellow hobbyists for over a year, we feel that Soilent Green is the best solution for the main staple in the Goldfish diet.  I used to make my own gel food, but it was time consuming, messy, and I never felt confident that the mix of ingredients was optimal.  Soilent Green solves these issues with an easy to make product.   Brought to a boil in a non-stick pan, and poured onto a non-stick cookie sheet, it gels quickly with little to no clean up.  Anything left in the pan gels up and peels right off.  Once a batch is made, we chop it up on a cutting board into bite size pieces and store in the fridge.  We are actually making pounds of it every other day, but the average hobbyist should be able to make a small batch every week or two, spending less than 15 minutes to do so.

I’ve always said that I’d rather concentrate on the fish, and not get into selling products or food.   That was mostly because I never felt enough confidence in any food that I wanted to promote or represent it.  The other reason is the nature of internet commerce.  Huge companies can offer some retail products for less than I can even get them wholesale.  Being a small business, it’s hard to compete, and I simply wasn’t going to try to.  I’d have to buy, stock, sell, and ship hundreds of pounds of food just to make a thousand dollars.  Again, it made sense to just focus on the fish, especially since that takes a huge amount of time already, and because goldfish is what Dandy Orandas does best.  : )

All of that being said, I have now decided to offer this Repashy Soilent Green.  After years of being asked about food, and seeing many people struggle with food related issues, I think this is a great solution.  Repashy has high quality ingredients, plus the moisture that I’ve always advocated, and we’ve seen great results using it.   Fish are active, healthy, with vibrant color and none of the goofy post-feeding buoyancy issues seen with dry foods.  Repashy also has a good relationship with its retailers, and sets MAP pricing for their products.  This is Minimum Advertised Pricing, which keeps huge sellers from undercutting small business.   So, you should see similar pricing no matter what the source, leaving you to support good merchants instead of buying simply based on price.   Speaking of price….Repashy does come in smaller quantities, but the unit cost is much more optimal at the 1lb. size.   We are stocking this size ONLY, since it is a better value.  While it is a lot of food, it does have a good shelf-life until gelled, so it shouldn’t go to waste.

SHIPPING INFO.  If you are getting fish, a 1lb. bag can be added to your shipment for no additional shipping cost.  If you are just getting food, then shipping will be via USPS priority mail, and will be $5.80, for a total of $31.79 delivered.  (Please note if just getting food, please use the link on the homepage for food.)

NET WEIGHT 16 OZ / 454 GRAMS  (makes approximately 4 times the amount once gelled, mixed at 1 part powder/3 parts water)

 

Meal Replacement Gel for Aufwuchs (algae and small living organisms) eating species of Fish, Invertebrates, Amphibians and Reptiles.

 

INGREDIENTS: Chlorella Algae, Spirulina Algae, Whole Krill Meal, Whole Squid Meal, Whole Sardine Meal, Alfalfa Leaf Meal, Whole Anchovy Meal, Germinated Brown Rice Protein Concentrate, Pea Protein Isolate, Dried Brewers Yeast, Stabilized Rice Bran, Dried Kelp, Carrageenan Algae, Konjac, Carob Bean Gum, Schizochytrium Algae, Calcium Carbonate, Dicalcium Phosphate, Taurine, Potassium Citrate, Calcium Propionate, Phaffia Rhodozyma Yeast, Paprika Extract, Calendula Flower Powder, Marigold Flower Extract, Rose Hips Powder, Turmeric Root Powder, Malic Acid, Sodium Chloride, Canthaxanthin, Potassium Sorbate, Magnesium Gluconate, Lecithin, Rosemary Extract and Mixed Tocopherols (as preservatives), Vitamins (Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin D Supplement, Choline Chloride, Ascorbic Acid, Vitamin E Supplement, Niacin, Beta Carotene, Pantothenic Acid, Riboflavin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Thiamine Mononitrate, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex, Folic Acid, Biotin, Vitamin B-12 Supplement).

 

Guaranteed Analysis: Crude Protein min. 45%, Crude Fat min. 6%, Crude Fat max. 8%, Crude Fiber max. 8%, Moisture max. 8%, Ash max. 12%, Calcium min. 1.5%, Calcium max. 2%, Phosphorus min. 0.75%.

 

DIRECTIONS: To prepare one cup of product, add ¼ cup of powder into ¾ cup of cold water and stir until blended. Microwave until it starts to boil (typically 2-3 minutes), remove and stir. Alternatively, bring water to a boil on stove, remove from heat, and stir in powder. Immediately pour into a storage container or mould, and let sit at room temp until firm. The finished gel can be cut into cubes, shredded, or used as a whole slab. Whatever is not used immediately should be treated as fresh food. It can be stored sealed in refrigerator for up to two weeks, and in freezer for up to six months. To adjust firmness of gel, use more or less water as desired.