The specific conditions for selecting the breeder for the lionhead goldfish are as follows: the body is short and strong; the sarcoma is thick and protrudes like a strawberry; the tail carcass is thick; the head and the back need to be wide; the abdomen is equally protruding from both the right and left sides; the anal fins are hidden in pairs under the caudal fins and not exposed; and the eyes and the mouth are sunk into the sarcoma. If the above conditions are met, the fish is considered to be a high-class goldfish. The rare ones of the species are expensive, and are mostly red in color, with many new colors added, such as yellow, white, black, red, red-white, and five-flower color.

In the lion's head goldfish as a child when selecting the fish, to face square kisses flush with the best, in the stocking stage of the pool than the pit stocking effect is good, when the fish can be seen in the head of the sarcoma protruding when the fish grows to 3 ~ 5 cm or so, and then stocked with a 10 square meters of the small pool, it is a significant feeding effect, can be a complete embodiment of the lion's head should be characterized by the physical appearance, and will not be because of the pool is too large and make the body overly Stretching, the size of the lion's head sarcoma should be controlled in a reasonable range, not the bigger the better sarcoma, too big head tumor will affect the life.