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Old 03-20-2007   #9 (permalink)
jbolding
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Thank you Richard for posting this fish.

I am intrigued by this fish. It is a very good sanke from the pictures. The shiro looks clean, body looks good, sumi looks good (although a little finished for such a young fish), but then there is the beni. It's not quite red enough to be persimony, and it does look a little flat. Could you give us a close up of a few of the beni scales from just behind the shoulder? It looks as if some of them may have a darker center (meaning thier be more layers of red/orange forming), but I see no sign of that on the scales just behind the head. In some ways I think the shiro is compensating for the beni.
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