[PapaBear]

Quote: Originally Posted by gcuss I've been following your thread on the other board, and wow, it's been educational! I'd keep all but the kohaku tancho from the first shot. I think the sumi is interesting to watch, and being that sumi is so tough to predict... good value for learning when the price of feed/bio load is considered. I don't think I'd hold on to the ochiba, might be the picture, but the skin looks quite dull. My guess is it's downhill from here. And finally, you didn't post it, but I hang on to the "Showa Wannabe" cuz he's just so damn interesting. Thank you for taking the time to post all the photos, extremely interesting. Grant

Thanks for the feedback, and I do plan to keep the "showawannabe" just to see what happens with it.

For those of you who haven't a clue what Grant is talking about, I've had a long running thread over at KP tracking the growth and development of a sampling of fry we hung on to from last years spawn. I retained good, bad, and everything in between to track how good gets better and bad gets worse. Here's a pic of the Showannabe he's talking about. Damned interesting fish up close, so I plan to give it time just for the sake of my own education and amusement

From a few months ago.


Last week (along with one of the mutt uglies...).