All you have to do is keep a cheat sheet in your pocket or tacked on
the ponds edge so you can refer to it. Then when someone says oh, look
at the fish that looks like a Dalmation dog.........you can
nonchalantly meander over to your note and give it a quick glance and
say, oh, you like that bekko koi to.....yes but it has a hint of a
bit of hi so its not really a good example as that one over there,
without the hi, is a good example of a bekko koi. (bekko is a koi
that is colored like a dalmation dog and "HI" is not from the fish
smoking dope, it too is a coloration of orange.
Koi that are supposed to only have two colors are known as IIRC
Utsuri koi. A bekko is a utsuri koi, a go-sanke is not. I think I have
the terms and colors right, but don't place any bets with a real koi
keeper on it, you may loose. ;-)

On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:50:34 +0000, Gill Passman
wrote:


Well all I can say is when I get into the intracies of keeping Koi I
hope you guys are around to put me right.....and help out...even if it
is on a moderated group which I guess would allow me to sort the wheat
from the chaff....without the hassle of sorting it manually in my head...

Gill