[Nancy M.]

Quote: Originally Posted by JasPR I If anyone is interested, I was copy and past some of Momotaro's comments ( the growers growing master) about the experiment he did on a spawn of fish in which group A was wintered and group B was given hot house conditions and how the fish all fared over two seasons. The net effect was at any one moment in the year group B was ahead. But at the end of every summer in the mud, group A would catch up. Note, this is without stress factors. With stress factors, group B would not have been allowed to 'catch up'. And this spread would be magnified over time. Especially in the 'wonder bread years' when the percentage of growth is higher than it is past age four or five. - JR

JR, please post Momotaro's comments, would enjoy reading it. I have always noticed that jumbo tosai seem to be more weeker than a tosai grown under normal conditions. When koi are pushed and tricked into growing so rapidly, are there enternal oragans able to gorw as quickly as the body? would this explain why jumbo seem to be more fragile and in weeker conditions when they arrive from Japan.