{ "breeder": "Masaharu Tarumi", "region": "Saijo, Ehime Prefecture, Japan", "initial_multi_breeder_50_record_campaign_preserved": 50, "tarumi_prior_documentary_records": 43, "new_documentary_records": 7, "tarumi_documentary_records_now": 50, "record_types": "Named phenotype, anonymous cross, and related-family reports; not all original cultivars", "records": [ { "name": "Kin Sunago", "jp": "金砂子", "category": "2025 named visual selection", "description": "Golden-speckled Wazumi-descended Tarumi selection pictured and labeled in the September 2025 magazine", "maker": "Tarumi selection; Wazumi original developer is 有岡麻世 of めだか専門店ぱれっと", "unknown": "Exact individual parents, generation and stable inheritance are not published", "sources": [ "mag2025", "publisher2025" ], "evidence": [ { "title": "Pisces Medaka Hyakka 20.5 (September 2025), pages 24-25", "url": "https://fliphtml5.com/hbjdg/fvpq/E-BOOK_%E3%83%A1%E3%83%80%E3%82%AB%E7%99%BE%E8%8F%AF%E7%AC%AC20.5%E5%8F%B7%E3%80%80%E5%AE%8C%E5%85%A8eBook%E7%89%88/" }, { "title": "Pisces publisher release identifying Tarumi's Wazumi work", "url": "https://piscesbook.com/archives/23797" } ] }, { "name": "Gin Sunago", "jp": "銀砂子", "category": "2025 named visual selection", "description": "Silver-speckled expression within Tarumi's Wazumi breeding project, described in the original magazine spread", "maker": "Tarumi selection; original Wazumi credit remains with 有岡麻世", "unknown": "One image-caption transcription differs in the source; do not assert independently fixed cultivar identity", "sources": [ "mag2025" ], "evidence": [ { "title": "Pisces Medaka Hyakka 20.5 (September 2025), pages 24-25", "url": "https://fliphtml5.com/hbjdg/fvpq/E-BOOK_%E3%83%A1%E3%83%80%E3%82%AB%E7%99%BE%E8%8F%AF%E7%AC%AC20.5%E5%8F%B7%E3%80%80%E5%AE%8C%E5%85%A8eBook%E7%89%88/" } ] }, { "name": "Ai Sunago", "jp": "藍砂子", "category": "2025 named visual selection", "description": "Blue/indigo-speckled Wazumi-related display form highlighted for top-view evaluation", "maker": "Tarumi project selection, not independently credited Wazumi founding invention", "unknown": "No source-documented direct mating pair or genetic fixation report", "sources": [ "mag2025" ], "evidence": [ { "title": "Pisces Medaka Hyakka 20.5 (September 2025), pages 24-25", "url": "https://fliphtml5.com/hbjdg/fvpq/E-BOOK_%E3%83%A1%E3%83%80%E3%82%AB%E7%99%BE%E8%8F%AF%E7%AC%AC20.5%E5%8F%B7%E3%80%80%E5%AE%8C%E5%85%A8eBook%E7%89%88/" } ] }, { "name": "Nishiki Sunago", "jp": "錦砂子", "category": "2025 named visual selection", "description": "Multicolor speckled expression photographed with the Tarumi Wazumi cross family in the magazine", "maker": "Tarumi project selection, no proof of separate molecular founder allele", "unknown": "No distinct registered strain or published first-sale event established", "sources": [ "mag2025" ], "evidence": [ { "title": "Pisces Medaka Hyakka 20.5 (September 2025), pages 24-25", "url": "https://fliphtml5.com/hbjdg/fvpq/E-BOOK_%E3%83%A1%E3%83%80%E3%82%AB%E7%99%BE%E8%8F%AF%E7%AC%AC20.5%E5%8F%B7%E3%80%80%E5%AE%8C%E5%85%A8eBook%E7%89%88/" } ] }, { "name": "Unnamed Wazumi × Reiwa × Fromage × MNF Jet Black exhibit", "jp": "和墨 × 令和 × フロマージュ × MNF漆黒（無名展示個体）", "category": "2025 unnamed experimental exhibition stock", "description": "Tarumi exhibited an unnamed side-view cross at the 2025 Wazumi show; publication lists four stock-family influences, not a single four-parent mating", "maker": "Tarumi developed the exhibition fish; constituent source families belong to their respective originating breeders", "unknown": "Cross order, broodstock IDs, F generation, final cultivar name and award placement unconfirmed", "sources": [ "mag2025" ], "evidence": [ { "title": "Pisces Medaka Hyakka 20.5 (September 2025), pages 24-25", "url": "https://fliphtml5.com/hbjdg/fvpq/E-BOOK_%E3%83%A1%E3%83%80%E3%82%AB%E7%99%BE%E8%8F%AF%E7%AC%AC20.5%E5%8F%B7%E3%80%80%E5%AE%8C%E5%85%A8eBook%E7%89%88/" } ] }, { "name": "Whiteout — Fromage-related family mention", "jp": "ホワイトアウト", "category": "2026 related-family editorial mention", "description": "Pisces publisher places Whiteout among lines closely related to or expressing traits seen in Fromage-family breeding", "maker": "Individual Whiteout origin and developer not substantiated by this brief publisher description", "unknown": "Not assigned to Tarumi as its original inventor without direct breeder/source corroboration", "sources": [ "publisher2026" ], "evidence": [ { "title": "Pisces Medaka AG Vol.07, Fromage family and breeding remarks (2026)", "url": "https://piscesbook.com/archives/24587" } ] }, { "name": "Sunset Frill — Fromage-related family mention", "jp": "サンセットフリル", "category": "2026 related-family editorial mention", "description": "Pisces publisher lists Sunset Frill alongside Orangé and Whiteout in discussion of Fromage-related expression", "maker": "Founder line association supported; individual named-variant inventor not independently established", "unknown": "Precise parent cross, first release, authenticity and genetics remain unverified", "sources": [ "publisher2026" ], "evidence": [ { "title": "Pisces Medaka AG Vol.07, Fromage family and breeding remarks (2026)", "url": "https://piscesbook.com/archives/24587" } ] } ], "lineage_claims": [ { "parent": "Wazumi (和墨) original breeding stock, 有岡麻世", "descendant": "Tarumi Wazumi crosses / Kin, Gin, Ai, Nishiki Sunago selections", "edge_type": "Documented stock influence and later Tarumi selection", "verified": "2025 original publisher spread pp.24–25", "not_verified": "Direct fish-pair lineage or fixed genotype", "source": "mag2025", "source_url": "https://fliphtml5.com/hbjdg/fvpq/E-BOOK_%E3%83%A1%E3%83%80%E3%82%AB%E7%99%BE%E8%8F%AF%E7%AC%AC20.5%E5%8F%B7%E3%80%80%E5%AE%8C%E5%85%A8eBook%E7%89%88/" }, { "parent": "Wazumi + Reiwa + Fromage + MNF Jet Black", "descendant": "Unnamed 2025 side-view exhibition specimen", "edge_type": "Four source-reported stock-family influences; breeding order unknown", "verified": "2025 publisher picture caption pp.24", "not_verified": "Four simultaneous parents, first release or contest placing", "source": "mag2025", "source_url": "https://fliphtml5.com/hbjdg/fvpq/E-BOOK_%E3%83%A1%E3%83%80%E3%82%AB%E7%99%BE%E8%8F%AF%E7%AC%AC20.5%E5%8F%B7%E3%80%80%E5%AE%8C%E5%85%A8eBook%E7%89%88/" }, { "parent": "Wazumi related crosses with Fromage and Midnight Frill", "descendant": "Proposed Wazumi long-fin objective", "edge_type": "Breeder intention reported in 2025, NOT a completed strain", "verified": "2025 interview text pp.25", "not_verified": "Stable longfin line, published cross ratio, retail stock", "source": "mag2025", "source_url": "https://fliphtml5.com/hbjdg/fvpq/E-BOOK_%E3%83%A1%E3%83%80%E3%82%AB%E7%99%BE%E8%8F%AF%E7%AC%AC20.5%E5%8F%B7%E3%80%80%E5%AE%8C%E5%85%A8eBook%E7%89%88/" }, { "parent": "Mirror scale (Kagami / カガミ鱗)", "descendant": "Possible future Wazumi cross program", "edge_type": "Explicitly stated interest/intent only, NOT confirmed parentage", "verified": "2025 breeder future-facing comment pp.25", "not_verified": "No Kagami parent fish or completed mirror-scale strain", "source": "mag2025", "source_url": "https://fliphtml5.com/hbjdg/fvpq/E-BOOK_%E3%83%A1%E3%83%80%E3%82%AB%E7%99%BE%E8%8F%AF%E7%AC%AC20.5%E5%8F%B7%E3%80%80%E5%AE%8C%E5%85%A8eBook%E7%89%88/" }, { "parent": "Tarumi Fromage household breeding family", "descendant": "Whiteout and Sunset Frill related expressions", "edge_type": "Publisher's related-family description, NOT origin proof", "verified": "2026 publisher article", "not_verified": "Creator credit, exact father/mother pair or genetic inheritance", "source": "publisher2026", "source_url": "https://piscesbook.com/archives/24587" } ], "breeding_advice": [ { "lesson": "Study separately exterior light, scale reflections, fin shape and body pattern", "source_url": "https://medakazukan.net/post_lp/%E9%B1%97%E5%85%89/", "level": "Published specialist classification, not a genotype result" }, { "lesson": "Compare upper/side views and keep selected lines separate", "source_url": "https://fliphtml5.com/hbjdg/fvpq/E-BOOK_%E3%83%A1%E3%83%80%E3%82%AB%E7%99%BE%E8%8F%AF%E7%AC%AC20.5%E5%8F%B7%E3%80%80%E5%AE%8C%E5%85%A8eBook%E7%89%88/", "level": "Suggested observation from Tarumi 2025 show commentary" }, { "lesson": "Track how related Fromage offspring vary in tone and fin expression", "source_url": "https://piscesbook.com/archives/24587", "level": "Publisher-described observation, not direct Tarumi quote" }, { "lesson": "Give broodstock good water and nutrition and observe spawning-substrate placement", "source_url": "https://piscesbook.com/archives/24587", "level": "General publisher advice, not a measured Tarumi protocol" } ], "contest_claims": [ { "event": "Wazumi Exhibition 2025", "tarumi_entry": "Unnamed crossing exhibit", "placement": "Not verified in published Tarumi account", "source_url": "https://fliphtml5.com/hbjdg/fvpq/E-BOOK_%E3%83%A1%E3%83%80%E3%82%AB%E7%99%BE%E8%8F%AF%E7%AC%AC20.5%E5%8F%B7%E3%80%80%E5%AE%8C%E5%85%A8eBook%E7%89%88/" } ], "image_rights": [ { "publisher": "Pisces Medaka Hyakka 20.5 (September 2025), pages 24-25", "source_url": "https://fliphtml5.com/hbjdg/fvpq/E-BOOK_%E3%83%A1%E3%83%80%E3%82%AB%E7%99%BE%E8%8F%AF%E7%AC%AC20.5%E5%8F%B7%E3%80%80%E5%AE%8C%E5%85%A8eBook%E7%89%88/", "permission_status": "No verified license to rehost specific fish images", "action": "Link to source only; 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do not copy or hotlink" }, { "publisher": "JASMA Midnight Frill type-specific selection account", "source_url": "https://jasma.sc/medaka/midnightflill/", "permission_status": "No verified license to rehost specific fish images", "action": "Link to source only; do not copy or hotlink" } ], "research_gaps": [ "2025 variants are named in a publication; no breeder registry or fixed-genotype proof provided", "No direct fish-by-fish mother/father ID, succession sequence, fixed generation or production yield verified", "Tarumi's proposed Kagami mirror-scale introduction remains an intention, not known completed cross", "The Wazumi source founder is not Tarumi; cultivar invention credit remains with the original breeder", "No photograph use permission has been confirmed for Aquapedia", "No 2025 Wazumi-show winning placement for the Tarumi exhibit was established" ] }