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Originally Posted by AbsoluteRanchu

The tail is quite alright for this fish, overall a very nice piece. I have carefully look at the fish and paid close attention to the tail. The only thing that I see is that it's too skinny and the size of the tail made the balance of the fish a bit off. When the fish is bigger, this fish is going to be a real nice piece. I wish that I could have taken more pics of the fish, but it's now in quarantine and heading for it's new home already. Mr.Oishi's Comp Fish are almost sold out, we only have 3 left.

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.

Originally Posted by ranchu8

Hi Geert, if a tail shoulder is broken, can it heal and if it can heal, does it depend on how near the body it's broken pls?

Originally Posted by AbsoluteRanchu

Well, this fish was bought by one of your friend Mr.Tad or Mr.Joe from Bangkok, and if I am not wrong this order is heading to Europe too. Mr.Tad has quite an eye for ranchu and I do not think that he would pay premium prices for defective fish. You may probably get to see some of these fish around since he bought three of the Oishi Comp fish from us today, plus a few more lower quality ones.

Originally Posted by AbsoluteRanchu

Enjoy! I am happy for you all. I wish that I could have got one of them myself, so jealous of every one.

Originally Posted by yamato38gunkei

I believe a broken tail bone is difficult to heal. But very often I have females which tails are heavily damaged by the males during spawning. Most of the time the tails heal and grow again perfectly without doing anything.

Regards,

Geert Coppens