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Quote: Originally Posted by Lam Nguyen Furthermore, as Dick mentioned, it is desirable for the distance from the nose tip to the eye to be about 1.5 x the distance from the eyes to the gill plate. This koi has the reverse of that, that is the distance from the eye to the gill plate is 1.5 x the distance from the nose tip to the eyes. Also, as you mentioned earlier, the tail tube is not very large.

Lam,

Do you have any examples of a fish that exhibit this? Is it measured from the back of the gill plate? Or the start of the gill plate. I just looked at some extremely high priced/quality koi tosai and nisai (the holy crap, that's a mortgage type koi) and I haven't seen on example yet where it's hit this mark. The very closest I could tell was one shiro that was almost 50/50.

Thanks,

Grant