HI Development Observation

[xiaohuang7]

Woo-hoo Akai-san, my favorite topic!!!

All us newbies also need 24 pages on kohaku that shows the development of of unpromising, and promising fish, that didn't turn out, or we'll be forever chasing an elusive dream...

However, I doubt Kodama-san will be the dealer publishing it!

Thanks for the pics Brady! Bloodline? Any predicitions on the future of the one-scale 'scattered-ish' beni? I passed yesterday on a sanke exactly like that, with Chai and Junichi (ZNA SoCal guys) agreeing that with weak on-scale beni (like pic #1 in your exmple), that it'd be best only to grow it slowly, bonsai'ing it in an aquarium, so that the beni could 'catch-up' with the growth. True? It looks like your example's beni is filling in, and also thickening...

And for that matter, do any bloodlines have typically "increasing beni?" The fill-in kind (like Brady's picture example), not the thicker/thicker kind... although that's super imporant to know as well... and is there a difference?

Aki-san, I heard Sadazo sanke bloodline's sumi first sinks, and then returns deep after a few years. And when selecting tosai, one should look for sumi quality on white, not on the beni. Just hearsay. One direct experience this year -- I got an Ogata sanke tosai this May, nice F body and beni, who then had beautiful lines of sumi, living within one scale each (looked like a pearl necklaces), and now -- it's kohaku. But in my sleep it's still there...

A tosai thread talking about beni and sumi??? All may break loose!

John

[dizzyfish]

Quote: Originally Posted by xiaohuang7 All us newbies also need 24 pages on kohaku that shows the development of of unpromising, and promising fish, that didn't turn out, or we'll be forever chasing an elusive dream... However, I doubt Kodama-san will be the dealer publishing it! John

Gotta love the scarcasm. Look at it this way. He has already published many of the first photos. All that is left is to provide the follow up photos.

[Akai-San]

Mitch,

Thanks. That series of books and CD was actually the second peridodical I purchased for starting down that path of learning about nishikigoi. Great reading and great learning guide. First book I purchased was KOIKICHI. And I am still pondering purchasing KOI2KICHI. Sooner or later I'll get it...Christmas is right around the corner. Hahaha.