Originally Posted by AbsoluteRanchu

I would like to add one thing about the condition of the tail. For this fish the tail is not broken, the pictures made it appear so. However, with minor defects with the tails, there are definitely steps that you can do to help the tail improve in quality. I plan to talk a bit about this at the workshop later on this weekend. Some of the Japanese breeders goes as far as to cut some of the tails of their junior fish, to improve the tail condition. This needs to be done by experts but the exercises that you can do could be learned easily. Come by to the Workshop if you have time, and we can discuss this in more details.