| Thank you Don - well put.
The notion that a significant portion of a koi spawn will look like their parents is hog wash. You will be lucky if a significant portion even resemble the same variety as the parents. Kohaku are the closest thing we have to a variety which breeds true, yet the majority of their offspring will be higoi or shiro muji.
If a spawn gives you get a dozen or so good fish with patterns which are reminiscent of one of the parents, you're doing well. I do not see much value in a pedigree system for koi when 99.99% of the offspring are but-ugly.
-steveh opkin
p.s. Suppose 50% of koi offspring looked like a cross between the two parents. What would that do to the price of koi? |