The taste is rather bland, so they need an interesting sauce or they are used to make soup, and there are many small bones. The gibel carp are fished locally in Hong Kong, where they are known as 鲗鱼 zéi yú (鰂魚 zak 6 yu 2). Apart from colour, the main difference is in the size in outline, the fish otherwise look very closely alike. Wild and ornamental goldfish photographed together in a market in Lijiang, Yunnan, China, in January 2013. On scientific naming, see Note (a) below. Live wild goldfish in a tank with grass carp and snakeheads, and single goldfish (ready for sale) with product label, photographed in the Webmaster's local supermarket in Hong Kong, June 2017. Wild goldfish photographed in a restaurant, Hong Kong 2015. Length about 27 cm (10.5 inches) including the tail body depth about 9 cm (3.5 inches). Notice the absence of mouth barbels and the deeper body than is found in smaller individuals including most common goldfish. This individual was on the point of sale and despatch when photographed. Photographs taken in June and August 2014. Gibel carp on sale in the Shamchun Street Market, Argyle Street, Hong Kong, for eating. Here are some pictures of gibel carp from Hong Kong, where (as elsewhere in the Far East) it is eaten as a food fish. It crosses readily with any ornamental goldfish, producing viable In weight within 2-3 years and living for about 10 years. Water from 10☌ to 32☌, growing to about 30 cm in length and 2.5 kg Streams, ponds, lakes and ditches, living in running, still and even stagnant It has a very wide distribution throughout Eurasia and in China it inhabits rivers, It is a species that naturally shows a wide range of morphological variation The gibel carp ( Carassius gibelio, formerly Carassius auratus gibelio a), according to prevailing wisdom, is the wild origin of ornamental goldfish. It has been observed that ornamentally coloured goldfish will revert to the wild type colour if left to themselves for a number of years. Apparent wild type is the colour of all young ornamental metallic goldfish until they gain adult colouration, apart from the bronzes. Wild type colouration (see goldfish colour chart) is adaptive for camouflage, having a dark grey upper body surface (for camouflage when viewed from above) and silvery-grey flanks (for camouflage when seen from the sides and below). Wild goldfish are a matter of contention as to exactly which species are the wild ancestors of domesticated (ornamental) goldfish. And all-grey fish, such as some orandas and veiltails,īronze goldfish are seldom seen as adults in UK: bronze common goldfish exhibited at BAS 2002 (left and right) and young adult bronze Bristol shubunkin, from the BAS 35mm slide collection (centre). However, bronze fish with some red pigmentation are called chocolate fish, as in the chocolate oranda, and these are valued. Adult bronzes are goldfish that never attain the red, yellow, silvery-white, etc, adult metallic colouration, and they are usually only kept if they possess particularly fine features such as body shape, finnage, etc, which the breeder hopes to introduce into fish with ornamental colouration through breeding with such bronzes. This page attempts to distinguish between the two.īronze (see goldfish colour chart) is an overall brown colouration, sometimes lighter on the underparts but sometimes an even colour all over, that arises during the breeding of ornamental goldfish. There is some confusion between wild type and bronze goldfish.
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