datnoid grading

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Midwater said:
Actually, I am not totally adverse to all this 'grading' bollocks. Clean three bar are sold off first, then clean four bar. Dirty three bars get left over and sold cheap, and are my favourite.

Another term, 'high quality', dunno what that means at all.

There seems to be an industry of buying a batch of IT fry directly from Sumatra, growing them out minimally, and splitting them into sub-batches, passing them on, and inventing grade and quality.

Don't think the fish care at all.

Be careful how you spend your money.
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I agree with this, i was confused to what the grading standard meant along with high quality being slapped on as a label. I summer maybe high quality meant that is clean or disease free and grading above A guaranteed full belt, necklace, high body and or wide bar. Thanks for the advice, in reality i’m overthinking this and don’t want to waste extra money on things that already are built in.
 
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danotaylor said:
Hey how about posting a pic of your dat for us all to see? I won't try to grade it, promise :uhoh:
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thought NTT were all roughly the same, here’s a pic
 
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Take my ST datnoid for example It took me months to find one of this quality that I also liked more than others (sometimes defects are enhancements to me) but it is still not perfect. Some might say the bar isnt wide enough and there is a little black on one side up top or the tail on one side isnt completely black
Even still I would describe this as a grade A or even a high grade A as there could be a grade A with more pronounced imperfections and still pass as a Grade A. Out of the 20 ST I saw in person this one imo was the nicest one. I also hear that the true wide bar ST like the old school ones are all being horded by the breeder and the going price for those is 35k and up. So if you look at it from that perspective all we are getting is Grade B and we are really fighting between Grade B and Grade C
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M3AN ONE said:
Take my ST datnoid for example It took me months to find one of this quality that I also liked more than others (sometimes defects are enhancements to me) but it is still not perfect. Some might say the bar isnt wide enough and there is a little black on one side up top or the tail on one side isnt completely black
Even still I would describe this as a grade A or even a high grade A as there could be a grade A with more pronounced imperfections and still pass as a Grade A. Out of the 20 ST I saw in person this one imo was the nicest one. I also hear that the true wide bar ST like the old school ones are all being horded by the breeder and the going price for those is 35k and up. So if you look at it from that perspective all we are getting is Grade B and we are really fighting between Grade B and Grade C
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Dats galore! I know nothing about grading, but I like them all!
 
M3AN ONE said:
Take my ST datnoid for example It took me months to find one of this quality that I also liked more than others (sometimes defects are enhancements to me) but it is still not perfect. Some might say the bar isnt wide enough and there is a little black on one side up top or the tail on one side isnt completely black
Even still I would describe this as a grade A or even a high grade A as there could be a grade A with more pronounced imperfections and still pass as a Grade A. Out of the 20 ST I saw in person this one imo was the nicest one. I also hear that the true wide bar ST like the old school ones are all being horded by the breeder and the going price for those is 35k and up. So if you look at it from that perspective all we are getting is Grade B and we are really fighting between Grade B and Grade C
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I too would grade this a high A, it’s honestly such a shame that true ST 3 bars are so hard to acquire. I always liked them more than indos because my father had one when i grew. how does one tell them apart? i think the markets dilute with a lot of indos labelled ST these days and honestly i can’t tell which ones real anymore. i used to tell by the tail and the district deep golden hue but a lot of indos i see these days are similar. I agree with the time taking process of finding a datnoid you like and i’ve taken a liking to the dagger barred ones so i’ve just been looking for ways and places to find them that wouldn’t require shipments from japan.
 
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