Interesting like goldfish round like a ping pong ball

This strange fish is called ping pong, originating from Thailand .

About five years ago, this fish breed was bred by Thai biologists and just a year later, this very beautiful, ball-like fish was popular among Vietnamese youth.

The ping pong has a wide and short tail, the small, beautiful head carries a big round belly with hard, milky scales, shining like a moving pearl. Those sparkling scales were formed from the accumulation of calcium due to the gene mutation, which created a special feature for this fish.

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Ping pong goldfish.

Although it only appeared on the market, this fish variety is very diverse in color. From simple colors like white, black, red, orange to strange colors such as blue, purple, striped but the most common are three colors red, white and transparent.

The fish is round like a ping pong ball

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Ping pong fish grows very slowly.

Ping pong fish grows very slowly, it takes a year to reach the size of a ping pong ball. Depending on the size, each fish has different prices. The small ones with thumbs are priced from 15,000-30,000 VND. Those with large size with four fingers are priced from 150,000-200,000 VND.

Gia Bao, a fish player in District 7, said: 'Ping pong is very naughty, they love rolling around under the lake. They also know how to flatter their bosses, just keep their hands on the lake and they will swim to the place where you are friendly . ' Uyen Nghi is delighted to say: 'I really like to keep ping pong fish because they are chubby, while swimming and shaking their mouths, they look very cute all the time. When I'm tired, just watching them swimming is fun. '

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This fish is very friendly.

Ping pong is an extremely easy to raise fish. Because of the eye-catching body, the fish are often kept in an aquarium in a garden or in a glass aquarium.

Mr. Quang Duy (District 2, Ho Chi Minh City) is a fishperson who keeps ping pong from the days when new fish arrived in Vietnam, so when he buys fish, he should leave the fish to rest for about 15 minutes and then release it into the lake to allow fish to adapt to the lips water school. Farmers should not feed the fish too much, if kept in a lack of light, the fish is very susceptible to disease.

When raising ping pong, farmers need to ensure that the water environment is always clean so that the fish are well developed, should not leave hard objects in the lake because it will collide, flake fish scales, making the fish vulnerable. parasites attack and cause disease.