Ok, I give up, I am guessing here.......

I have been looking at a few youngsters from a batch that should contain a mixture of pb/pb & pb hets, now I see Blue Koi, Koi/Paraiba etc in the batch but I just can't put my finder on giving these a correct ID, are they Blue Koi? Blushing? Paraiba? something else?
They have some black markings on them fade with mood & some lovely irridecense.......

Hi Lisa,
A blue koi needs a Gm gene, so unless the one at the front has obvious solid black patches on the rear, it can't be a blue koi.
Not a paraiba, no where near enough blue...
So I'd simply call it a blushing angel.....

...however, it has red eyes, still has blushing cheeks even 'though it's obviously a reasonably mature fish, it has a golden brown crown and back and a nice deep body. In short it shows all the signs of it's Czech red herritage....

compare it with these....

LOL, yes I totaly agree , knew you would sort things out for me
Thanks, Lisa

Lisa, did I get one or two of those in my batch?

Hi Helen, I thought made sure yours were definate Blue Koi. Is that good or bad?
Lisa

Just looking at your images and maybe a cunning little fella pretended he has proper black markings! But yours have a lot more irridecant areas then the one in this thread.

[quote="Ghipsi"]Hi Helen, I made sure yours were definate Blue Koi. Is that good or bad?

I'm more than satisfied with the fish you sent. The largest blue koi paraiba is a similar colour, but that's all it is I'm sure, a similarity. It's a good thing, but I also wouldn't have minded if it had been the phenotype of the fish in this post! I can't say one negative thing about the fish I received.

As a side note, one of my fish has red in it's eyes, not sure which one because the tank light has popped and I can't see the fish The red is another good thing because I have a pinoy smokey paraiba with the same, and I love this trait.

[quote="Ghipsi]

Just looking at your images and maybe a cunning little fella pretended he has proper black markings! But yours have a lot more irridecant areas then the one in this thread.[/quote]

They are cunning little buggers, and yes the fish you sent have stacks of irridescence.

irridescence.

.......... Ive been trying to work out for ages how to spell that

Ghipsi wrote:

irridescence.

.......... Ive been trying to work out for ages how to spell that

Me too Lisa. For ages I spellt it with one "r", and the best part was, I thought I was right!