| Fantastic input from both Mike and Dick.
Mike, a number of times you've made reference that you cant normally buy fish like this as tosai out of Japan. Is that to say that in Japan, this caliber of fish would be retained and perhaps sold off as Nisei? If so, does Matt do it as part of being a new and upcoming domestic farm, and he's trying to get his name out? Or is he breeding so many good quality fish that he can afford to let these go and still retain enough high quality tosai to grow out for another year?
Anyways.....
Koi are wonderful in that how each time you manage to get lucky and truly grasp a piece of knowledge, your ability to appreciate what you're looking at increases.
In looking again at both of these fish with the input from Mike and Dick, I was able to see a whole bunch of things that I didn't notice before. 44 truly is amazing to look at.
I'm wondering, in revisiting the pictures, does anyone else feel that 44's pec fins might appear to be a tad on the small side? Or is it just the transparent quality of that bright shiroji fooling the eyes?
Thanks again guys, the education is wonderful.
*** Hopefully get my new filters constructed today. I LOVE building/designing stuff for my pond.
Grant |