For a really long time now I had been wanting a ranchu and looking all over my local pet stores in hopes of coming across any. I really didn't have much luck and I did actually see what I believed to have been ranchu at a Walmart one night but... it was bad timing, I was worried about the quality of the fish, and so... I missed my chance. I even sent out e-mails to fish stores within a state or so of me since I burnt out all my options locally in the DC area, and either I didn't get any response or I got weird rude replies back.
It wasn't until I went searching again on eBay that I looked into eSeller
eastcoastranchu. Turned out these 'side-view' ranchu are bred in New Jersey by a very kind and patient lady named Cynthia of
East Coast Ranchu. I also found that East Coast Ranchu donates 10% of their earnings to
GoldfishKeepers, and if you buy 5 or more ranchu's you can get 10% off. As you may have seen from a
previous post I did on here she made a video of several ranchu for me after I told her the type of ranchu characteristics I was looking for. I ended up picking the one that stood out from the lot and got the cute red-capped sakura ranchu whom is even cuter in person. I did get the 2-day shipping and my poor fish ended up spending so much unnecessary time in its box going from NJ to lower VA, and VA to MD, and then they spent a good 9-hours of delivery time when I was only an hour away from the UPS location. Then my package finally arrived right before I had to leave for work that night (
watch my video below to find out what happened next!).
Here's my adorable new pet ranchu's
Bumblez and
Oakki after a week of them settling into their new home!
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| Bumblez |
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| Oakki |
I will be doing another post in the near future on how I care for my new pet ranchu's.
