change can be good!

[JasPR]

Here's an interesting one. This fish won the kawarimono award in a koi show. a few years later it won a young champion award in a local show as a kohaku!!
Change is good- JR

[MikeM]

I love this sort of story. .... Was the Hi a bright cherry red as a Kohaku?

[JasPR]

Mike, all these goromo/goshiki fish tend to have brilliant white that can, in competition, really 'sell' the fish to judges ! The beni looks great in the picture but the white looks really great! JR

[Jeff Speck]

Whoa! What happened, JR? Hard water to soft water? I always think of black as something that will increase, but never VANISH ENTIRELY!

[dick benbow]

I've always been interested in the genetics of koi.

I have a marusume showa from toshio that as a tosai would have been called
kindai. Equal amounts of black red and white. This winter black took over and i was sorely disappointed. Now that spring has come the black is all dropping away past the tosai stage amount. I have a feeling his black was developed from matsunosuke sanke, the better ones do this "trick" as nisai.Then slowly come back in the better ones. With Sanke the spot in question is inevidentably the important shoulder sumi. So will be interested in seeing what happens to showa.

I have also seen other examples of goshiki based koi that develop Ai and then loose it. I'm not sure what it is, but I see more of it in this color variety than others. BTW this spring I will be getting tosai goshiki from Mat at Nisei koi farm to raise and study. Like so many of my favorite color varieties, this one also has it's roots in asagi.