Site for Goldfish Keepers - Culling Scale Types The Nacreous or calico scale group is a heterozygous genetic anomaly A nacreous fish is a blend of metallic solid scale to a matte transparent non reflective The mottled scaling and usual coloring of such a fish resembles the old calico patterns and in most cases the fish are called calico
Site for Goldfish Keepers - Culling Scale Types The Mock Metallic is the blue belly fish of the nacreous group Like the metallic in a nacreous spawn the mock usually does not carry the demelanizing gene and produces different results when bred to other variants than a bluebelly would The mock has almost no transparent scales an almost solid look and non visible blue abdomen
Site for Goldfish Keepers - Culling Scale Types Pseudomattes are nacreous fish with the mock metallic gene instead of a nacreous metallic,gene, Again when crossing a mock to a nacreous fish in the F1 you get normal looking nacreous fish with normal looking metallic’s When siblings are crossed you then get pseudomatte fish and asorted metallic’s, 50% mock and 50% metallic
Site for Goldfish Keepers - Culling Scale Types Many common nacreous fish can have transparent gills, button eyes and a matte finish Confusing at best A color matte can mimic a metallic fish but it will lack luster and sheen Acolor matte that appears to be a metallic fish When this fish is bred to a normal metallic the offspring are 100% nacreous This is a homozygous fish for the matte
Fancy Goldfish Page 1 - Site for Goldfish Keepers Whether you prefer nacreous, matte, or metallic scales you should be able to find a fish that suits you They also come in a wide range of colors such as; red, yellow, orange, calico, drab green or olive green, white, yellow-brown, or black
Site for Goldfish Keepers - Goldfish Standard for Shubunkin The primary differencebetween the common goldfish or the comet, and the Shubunkin is scale group or type and its color The Shubunkin goldfish is a calico fish; it can be nacreous or matte “Nacreous” means the fish can have scales that look like mother-of-pearl—also called nacre, which appears iridescent—instead of having a metallic sheen
Site for Goldfish Keepers - Culling Bristol Shubunkin 1 Metallic X Calico or nacreous ( 50% Calico and 50% Metallic) 2 Calico X Calico ( 25% Matt, 50% Calico and 25% Metallic) 3 Calico X Mock metallic (50% Calico and 50% Metallic) 4 Matt X Metallic ( 100% Calico) Figure 2: Modern day Bristol’s from the my #2 breeding group
Site for Goldfish Keepers - Culling English VeilTail The pinkies are visible quite early on and I hate removing them because they are so pink! I always keep a few of them I leave the removal of the metallics a little longer because finding the mock metallics is easier when they are slightly bigger I do separate the metallics and nacreous as soon as they can be identified A matt pinkie
Site for Goldfish Keepers - Culling Fantail This year I have bred 4 males (2010) with 2 females (2009 and 2010) In previous years I have aimed for a larger spawning using 3 or 4 females producing many thousands of fry, but as I am trying to spawn Ranchu and I have had a spawning of 2011 Nacreous Fantails, I am looking for something smaller in 2012 All three photos are of fish bred in 2010