my fish

[matt]

K, mike I am done posting pics for now.

I myself am really just a student of Asagi, and all koi, really. The whole

The main reason I am keeping so many of the one variety is to see how they develop with age. I love light blue asagi, as whell as those with lots of white. Before coming to Japan I saw few that had not gone grey with age, so I always try to pick light ones. Buying them young, I have also tried to follow the advice of Dick and others to choose ones with little red. However only 'd' seems to be an all-white asagi at this age. If i got some more shots of the sides, you would see more red on all of them, but most of it is all low on the bodt. Yuki had barly a faint spot or two of red when i first picked him. He still does not have as much as the others, but is has certainly come out with age, and I expect more.

I never feed colour food (even though my koromo and red kujaku would so well with some) because I am too worried about too much read surffacing on my asagi. I love the reticulated blue scales too much to want red to creep over them.

I think the colour has shown pretty ture in the pics.
I too have been very interedted in the differnce in the scales of my Hosokai fish. Blinky has a more spread, sull betalic blue that seeps into the furkin more. Seems to my eye like it is not as much on the top　of the scale. While I prefer the sharper scales of Yuki, Blinky has a lot of cahrm with a big high body and nice red.

Perhaps they are from differnt parrent sets. I look forward to Brian's Hosokai article to see if there is any mention of his different Asagi bloodlines.

All of my fish have been out of mud ponds since before I bought them. So thats 2 years for the san sai and 1 for the ni sai.

I would love to see how these fish would have if reared more profesionally, but I will have to wait some more years before I have the resources.

[MikeM]

Fantastic shots. I find the variation in scale coloration interesting.
They have so much growing to do! Even though their best days are far ahead, there is a subtle beauty in the soft tones, and such wonderful body shapes! The strength of carp heritage shows.

Makes me wish I had softer water.

[Sanke56]

Matt
Why can't I see the pics you posted other pics are ok but yours have a lttle box with an x in it and i can't click on it to make it appear. I would love to see the pics

[kiky]

I have exactly the same problem!

[Sanke56]

When I right clicked on the message I then got some options one was to load a very complex photo program and free offer the pictures must be installed using this program or something. The other pics all seem to work ok

[Sanke56]

When I right clicked on the message I then got some options one was to load a very complex photo program and free offer the pictures must be installed using this program or something. The other pics all seem to work ok

[matt]

hmmm. yes it is happening to me now when i look at the thread too.

It seems that the host server used to store the pics, www.photdump.com, has crashed. Hopefully this is temporary and they will be visable gain soon.

I won't be on the net much until next week, but if it is not fixed by then i will for another site to host my pictures. Anyone have any good suggestions?

[MikeM]

I get the photos just fine. They are very oversized, but that gives good detail.
It is easy to add a pic as an attachment to a post on this board by using the form that appears when posting and attaching from your own picture inventory, but the pics have to be e-mail size. That loses the detail you are giving us. Don't know if I'd appreciate the differences in Asagi scale coloration if I saw your pics in small sizes.

[matt]

Check the first page of this thread again Mike. Can you still see the pics?

I can't, even on the computer from which i posted them. Plus it seems that www.photdump.com has dissapeared from the net.

But i found a replacement: www.freephotohost.com

Iwill try the first pic of my 2 biggest asagi, blinky and yuki again. If it works I will try to find more time to repost the others later this week.