not sure, but why buy somebody's culls and if they were so poorly grown in the first
place what other hidden problems are there? Ingrid

Elizabeth Naime wrote:

I've never seen a crooked-face fish, but at one time a lot of the small
koi in the local pet stores (not speciality fish stores) looked quite
normal from above, but from the side it was apparent that their tails
were turned up. Normal fish profile up to the peduncle, I think it's
called, then a noticeable elbow -- looked about 25-30 degrees.

Some of them were pretty enough fish otherwise, and I seriously
considered them, but didn't know how serious the tail thing was. Haven't
seen them lately so either it was one "bad batch" due to conditions
during and shortly after spawning, or a genetic thing whose parents
haven't been spawning for those companies since. Anyway, would this type
of deformity cause problems?


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