Originally Posted by arohong

Hi just reposting what I wrote in another forum.

I noticed that in previous Yuhua competition some participants brought their ranchus and shipped them in the night before the competition to compete.

I gathered from the talk yesterday that ranchu competitions are actually meant to be a gauge of your own skills in nuturing the fish, I'll like to suggest that participants in this competition should have owned and cared for the competition fish for a period of time in order to participate. e.g.

1. Tosai - Owned and nutured the fish for at least 3 months or more.
2. Nisai - Owned and nutured the fish for at least 6 months or more.
3. Oya - Owned and nutured the fish for at least 1 year or more.

I know its unenforceable, but maybe there can be some sort of personal declaration in the entry forms. This could possibly meant that standard of competition fishes maybe lower (controvesy) but if such competitions continue over a period of time the general standard of Singapore kept ranchus in local Singapore competition could possibly improve.

Fishes not meeting the above suggested criteria and those by overseas participants should be possibly in a separate open or foriegn catergory.

This is just a suggestion for the organsiers to consider - don't wish for a long debate to happen.