[powerman]

my lotto draw was 26...89...144................for my first pick koi number 39 i think the skin quality looks good here...the underlying pattern will be nice..i like the body shape and conformation....i think it is a female...but i could be wrong.....there is no motoguro but i dont see this as a problem yet because the sumi is still hidden....so according to the KOI 2 book......"if the motoguru is weekly developed and the black on the body is also very poorly defined then both will develope proportionally.....very good utsuri tatagoi exhibit this stage in the pattern from the first to the end of the second year of life..." i myself am completely in experienced with this so i am going with the book and hope i interpreted what it meant correctly.....any way i see this as a nice fish and i think it has potential....on april 27....took an updated pic...and moved fish to outside pond.....outside pond is heated to 65 so prior to the transfer i lowered the temp in the qt tank to 65 from 72 over a couple of days...fish is now at 8 inches..the white looks like 2 percent milk..and the quality of skin looks nice....the sumi hasn't come up yet except a tiny bit in the tail..and has actually faded some update june 15........caught the fish today....that was an ordeal...14,000 gallon pond..8'deep....but i caught them...my wife helped....anyway measurements and pictures....koi 1...grew 2 1/2"....still no name for this koi...my wife said snowball....but the submerged sumi will come out........so snowball doesn't work..i am definitely thinking that this koi is female...