"Round Body blue rams"?

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Wildiana

wildiana
Sep 27, 2004
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i have a few of the regular rams, but saw some unique lookingo ones today at my LFS, the shape of a fancy gold fishe, very fat, round, with fancy fins, but its a blue ram? same color and everything els,


has anyone have them?
are they the same care as the other blue rams?

never saw this before, nor heard of them.
 
I've seen them around though I've never tried caring for them before (they look too unnatural for me), usually called balloon rams. I've seen them in the same tanks as regular rams interacting quite naturally so I'm assuming they're basically the same rams that were just selectively bred for the rounder shape.
 
Yeah, I saw some of those myself recently....I thought them very odd. I've never been a big fan of goldfish....lol...although I do like the calico ones with the slate blue backs...but not enough to go out and buy one...so I didn't have any great desire to pick up one of the ram types. :huh:
 
Yeah I've seen them before too, called Balloon Rams... probably just like phanmc said, just a defect bred out.
Never owned them before, but they weren't at the LFS very long, don't know if they died or were all sold...
 
i've seen them. they look like balloon mollies. i dont really like them though. they look odd to me and the mollies always seemed to have difficulty swimming and seemed slower. when i first saw the rams i thought they had dropsy! but then i noticed the sign on the tank that said "NEW! Balloon Blue Rams".
I like the Ryukin goldfish, I'm not sure if the round bodies of the Ryukin are a bred defect. but Calico appears pretty happy and he's healthy and he looks normal to me. he's proportional and he's actually quite a fast swimmer. it saddens me to see Orandas, bubble eyes and pearl (look like balloons and have pearly scales) goldfish who cant even swim. they cant even eat without someone putting the food right in front of their mouths. they cant swim to the surface to feed. and people like these fancy goldfish. the lfs cant keep them in stock, people are always buying them. people want the biggest bubbly eyes, the orandas with the largest brain looking thing on the top of their head. it's ugly to me. but thats just my personal opinion.
 
I don't like the idea of fish being selectively bred for grotesque deformities, it just seems wrong to me. They do seem to be popular though, as are dyed, tattooed and genetically engineered fish. Unfortunate IMO.
 
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