| Akai,
And if you think that is odd, it is more about the pairing of quality fish. A male that threw a good batch of fry before when bred to a female that threw a good batch of fry with another male when bred to each other can throw 100% junk.
And the ones you saw that looked like they had potential will more than likely not be the "ones that look like they have potential" in another 6 months. ESPECIALLY if their is BLACK in their background. Black comes and goes for years...both in quality and placement.....people have told me this and now I am having to deal with it in my fry. Some very nice kohaku fry are becoming goromos while others are showing their Sanke parentage.
I would have been happier with the kohakus staying kohakus as now I have to consider all the variables of another color, and how that extra color can ruin the look. But then again while the chances of the fish not turning out better because of the additional set of variables, the reward is greater if "one" does pull all three colors together.
if you were going to pick some out to keep, go with skin quality, color quality, and body conformation before pattern.
Pattern is very unreliable at that age. I look at my fry each feeding and wonder what they will really be in two years. It ain't very likely what they are now. |