Good stuff on color, JR. Thanks for sharing.
Would you talk a bit about surface injury/degradation to the beni ...that has been scraped (surface color removed) due to contact with fine plastic netting. There is no break in the skin (but almost, as there was 'indentation' ) just missing a scale or two in addition to a 'line' of missing color (2") down the side of said koi. It is a Marudo tosai kohaku.
Specifically, can we expect the color which has been disturbed/removed to regenerate? Is this somewhat dependent, as you talked, on the quality of breeding? Does age of koi play a part in what we should expect to happen at injury sight? (You said something re: "but as the fish ages.....") |