Feeding Your BBRs

Please refer to this site:http://csx.jp/~t-ranchu/3rd/keeping/keeping.htm.

Take due consideration to your keeping technique. I think it will be good if you can join us for the forum and discuss about this topic.

The link provides very good and simple to follow information. You should pin this up somewhere - call it Ranchu Keeping Basis 101 - just a suggestion.

There is one point which it did not mention, ie, how many fishes should we keep in say 100 litres of water?

thank you for your response.

The stocking levels depends on the following factors:
1. The temperature of the water.
2. The condition of the water.
3. Provision of aeration.
4. Type/grade of ranchu.

For item 1. The colder the temperature the more you can stock.

For Item 2. Freshly changed water allows you to keep more ranchu whereas water that has accumulated lots the ranchu's wastes will generally not allow high stocking levels.

For Item 3. The present of aeration serves 2 functions. First it helps to remove the CO2 from the water and secondly the agitated water surface and the stream of air bubbling from the air-stone allows air exchange to take place. This allows the depleted O2 to be replenished with fresh O2.

For Item 4. The smaller the ranchu, the more you can stock. For show grade or seed ranchu, generally the stocking levels are much lower.

For Inland Intensive Farming of Food fishes, the systems allows for ypp to 230kg of fish for every m3 of water. For more details you can refer to this site:http://www.aquaoptima.com.

Ranchu keeping and appreciation is a living hobby. Its "ALIVE". We should always look at technology to help us in our enjoyment of the hobby and falling back to the basics as our markers in developing this hobby. The shapes and profile of the Japanese ranchu has evolved greatly over the last 40 years mainly due to the advance in technology.

Experiment with various methods, meet up with fellow keepers, read magazine or books on ranchu or other types of fish including food fish farming and adapt it to your set-up. It is through interaction wit other keepers that you learn their success and pitfalls. What works for me may not work for you because of enviromental, physical, financial and time constrains.

I will summerised your query in this manner;

All things equal, will you prefer to keep,
20 - 3 inches ranchu or
15 - 4 inches ranchu or
10 - 5 inches ranchu or
5 - 6 inched ranchu or
2 - 8 inches ranchus

The choice is yours.

If i may ask and not referring to Alex: the advice above may be appropriate for someone with some experience but is it applicable for a newbie, paying $200 for a bbr? Also, frozen daphnia for 2 bbr should cost less?

I fully agree with you. That is why the TVR Workshop is for. We are selling genuine Kashino ranchu for $50/- in the workshop to help Newbie get started.

Just a food for thought..How about feeding tubifex worms to bbr??

If you do that, your TVR will become SVR. Tubifex worms requires lots of cleaning before you can safely feed your ranchu. You must know where these worms are harvested from. After that you might never want to touch them again. That is one reason why all our tubifex worms are imported.

Can you explain why you say TVR will become SVR after feeding tubifex worms ?