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I find the topic of emerging Ki Showa very interesting because you just do not see these fish anywhere. When you do see them it is rare to see intense rich yellow markings.
What where the parents of the fish that you show in your pics. I think that by now (at 18 mos age) you should see some real yellow color if it were to be in the cards at all. I think that the yellow markings are just far too pale to indicate any great promise for the future.
Here is a picture of a Ki Showa that I am watching to see how things go this year. This fish was hatched last May and was 8 inches long when the photo was taken in March at just under 10 mos of age. My apologies for not having a better photo but this fish had way too much energy to be a good photo participant that day.
The fish is a Ginrin Ki Showa from a Ginrin Showa x Ki Utsuri pairing. It has excellent motogoru placement on white pectorals but its weakness is too much Ki limiting the Shiro placement and quantity for balance. Sumi quantity and placement is crisp and almost perfect at this point.
I think that you should be expecting more Ki color intensity on your fish that should be at least 50% better and heading towards this fish I have pictured.
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