In another thread, in another Parish, the idea of a koi with no identifiable pattern (collector fish) would lose to an equally high grade koi which was smaller yet had a good pattern. Can someone elaborate on this for us? Are the patterns the same for all Gosanke? Are there a fixed number of Kohaku patterns upon which all else is built in Gosanke? Let's keep the discussion to Gosanke in order to better focus our thoughts, please. I look forward to the responses.
Jeff R.