Thanks as always Brett, as you well know, when ask you guys a question, your answers are taken into the depths of learning brain, but whatever your answer, I still gota see for myself. Not looking for short cuts, as you know.
I only noticed the thin beni low down on this little chap (my hunch is a male) when looking at the photo, didn't see it in the flesh. Time will tell, I've already seen many of the paler koi from this spawn loss their colour and end up muji.
This spawn has been good and bad in many ways, so many with potential, if only!!!! Many crackers, if only their head pattern was a little more forward, leaving them looking a little bald, or showing this secondary hi, which I have no idea where it is heading, or pale colours which will never come good.
Still I spose that’s fish breeding!! Perhaps a few will make the grade?
Below is another showing the secondary hi, plus a group of 3, top left, same spawn, this pale orange (it looks matalic in the shot, but it's not), any chance of turning red? There’s a few this colour which I shall hang onto till they come good or bad.
Still looking to move up another grade!!
Maurice.
Give me ten years!