>I regularly judge aquarium fish shows and get to see recent injuries of
>aquarium fish (including rainbowfish) fairly frequently. Most wounds do NOT
>show as pink areas, they show as skin colour which is the same as the
>surrounding area but not as "shiny" as the missing scales, which are
>usually transparent, are the only thing that is changed. For the underlying
>tissue to be showing there has to be some scooping out of an area of skin
>and this doesn't happen easily
>Fish in an aquarium don't easily lose scales without a significant event
>occurring
You're right, that was a bad analogy I made with the koi. It was late ;O
I never see missing scales in aquarium fish, not even in my praecox and
they already have been through about every disease in the book. :)
Best regards,
Hugo Hoekstra