GCSpyder
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Sep 13, 2005, 9:18 AM
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Re: [Koi38] butt ugly shiro - transformation?
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Hi Jon, APLBW and others,
Thanx for your kind encouragements. I will be going into further impressions of this koi based on my observation and I have to say that it will be different from some of your feedback.
Behaviour - This koi is very active but futive, eats like a male. It jumped many times, hit the floor and thrashed back into the waters. Even while it was in the bowl, it was jumping and I was afraid that it might damage its back when it landed back into the shallow water in the bowl. The point of all this is that it is highly stressed by the time I took the pictures. 2 things can happen, very spidery skin and fading sumi (if no good). There was a certain degree of stressed skin, but it showed surprising well, so it did indicate to me there might be good things to come in terms of shiroji quality. Whatever sumi that was there stayed and did not fade further. That was a good sign
Growth rate - Although this koi has doubled its length, it has not grown as fast as the other kois in the pond. Body is ok and good to know that it turn out female.
Sumi quality - I am not convinced about the state of the sumi quality at this moment. It has tightened up and cleared up but I can see indicate to me that the sumi is thin and maybe Nabesumi.
Let's take a look at the darker left sumi on the body
The center core are white with only black lining round the scales. My sense of it is that it will probably continue to fade for the next 6 months.
We can see clearer how the sumi has tightened up on the head area (slightly out of focus). The powdery remains shows how the top layer is disappearing. As Koh mentioned, perhaps the unlying layer will come on in the next 1-2 years. The sumi on the snout is still vague and far from finished. Perhaps that might fade too.
(This post was edited by GCSpyder on Oct 6, 2005, 3:12 PM)
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), for a young Shiro, go for one with as good a shiroji as possible and forget about the sumi pattern. Body conformation is of course a prerequisite. From the looks of this Shiro, it is a no no 
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I flush my filters daily and have new water trickling all the time. I think the only reason why the head clear is because it is a female. That is why it is so important to find female for shiro utsuri, though I got lucky on this one. Female have the capability to absorb the yellow carotene (eg into eggs production but this one why be too young though) though I am surprised this one cleared so soon. 
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Not sure how good Itsuka san its breeder is on Shiro. 
, here are the latest updated for all my shiro WT-1 
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