There is always something to learn. The fish has a dark spot on one side of the head. Never seen this asymmetrically. Thin skin? Thin/missing bone? Fingers crossed waiting for it to disappear.
Last edited by abuchi123; 02-09-2020 at 10:59 AM.
Looks like an Orange Karashigoi if i'm not mistaken. My first thought is that the dark spot may just be the somewhat translucent skull showing the brain spot. I'd imagine that as this fish grows and the skin thickens, that dark spot should grow fainter until it's covered completely.
That's my hope. See thru skull is normal on tosai but the dark spot is usually symmetrical. Curious how one side closed up faster than the other.
I take full responsibility for picking this fish. The dark spot was visible in the 5 fish group photo. I thought it was just shadow. I mis-matched this one with the individual photo of a different orange fish that has better skin and no black spot. It turned out that no individual photo was posted for this fish.
Fingers crossed with the growth you're able to achieve, I highly doubt most would care if it had a slight blemish on the head at 26"+ lol. I'm not sure how into showing you may be, but I also never see orange Karashigoi at shows (then again, I'm in the Southeast) so competition wouldn't be too fierce.
That's true - at that size we'll just chalk that up to giving the fish a little "character" or say it's a birthmark lol. I'm gonna go full-on optimistic here and say female! However, if it does end up being male, guess you could always rehome it with very little guilt lol.
I conceded. I will have an orange black tancho.
It is a transparent spot. Looks like the bones somehow didn't want to grow and fuse together. Not likely a bruise because the dark spot was there months ago in the photo taken in Japan
It is another write off fish. Like I said, I mis-matched a fish with better skin and no dark spot to the wrong number. This one wasn't going to be a keeper anyway because of its average skin.