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Akai-san: You got the point! .... but, there are always exceptions to any generality. Let us say a breeder reduces his tosai inventory to 500 over the course of a winter. Those 500 are the ones he thinks have the most potential. However, he may only be keeping 200 in a mud pond over the summer. After a winter of growth in heated indoor ponds, he needs to pick out the 200 with the best potential in his eye. The remaining 300 may be very good fish. Just not the ones he selected as having the best potential in that group of 500. The one he would rank as 201 in the group would be indistinguishable to the eye of most hobbyists. As one's "eye" for koi "improves", fish that would have been considered grand 10 years ago become mediocre. In a very real sense, "Junk", like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. ....Go look at photos of top show koi from 1970s. Ordinary hobbyists all around the world now have koi of equal quality and think nothing of it. Perfection in koi is a moving target.
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