First of all congratulation on your good fortune to be one of the lucky few who got in on that bulk order, you will be getting excellent fish at a good price. I am in charge of that order, personally. We'll be posting nice pictures for you to see later on this evening (Thursday the 2nd).
The drop in color is a normal occurance that usually happen to fish that change location. If a fish is raised in an atmosphere that's conducive to generating good colours, and all of a sudden it is move to a pond where there are less sunlight and vegetable source, then the colour drop will happen.
Most of my fish at home, once they are relocate back to my ponds at the farm, a few will have drastic colour drop. I mean from a red fish to a white fish with only red spots left on the tail. Ranchu changes all the time in accordance with environment they are put in. The colour change is simply another change to cope with the new home.
Please rest assure that there's nothing wrong with your fish at all. Colour is the last factor that a judge will look at and condition of the scales are much more important in comparision.
If you are really concerned about bringing some of the colours back, I do have a new additive which I have been trying for the past year and found to be good. PM me for further details, ok.
Last but not least, please refer to my posting about vegetable for ranchu. It's one of the best way to promote the best scale and colour development.
Hope this is helpful. Please do not hesitate to ask more questions if you like.
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Originally Posted by Ivan Koh
Hi Pat,
Greetings to you from S'pore. I have been reading all th epostings here and I must say that it's very informative. Thanks for your sharing...in fact, I'm going to one of the owners of your Kashino bbrs that are going to be brought back into S'pore. 
I have a question for you if you don't mind...I have a ranchu that has turned white suddenly...it has lost the red colour on his scales but the scales are all intact. In fact, other than the change in colour, he's acting normally as per before. I've been told that it could either be genetic or it's could be due to poor water quality. I have always stuck to changing the water at least once a week and it's generally a 100% change.
Is there anything I can do to get the red colour back? Thanks in adavce and sorry for the posting in the wrong column.
Rgds,
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