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[Dancing Fire]

Maple...these 2 nisei from Toshio Sakai went into mud in the spring.the first one is a kohaku and second one is a Goshiki both are female.

 

[maplefemme]

Maple...these 2 nisei from Toshio Sakai went into mud in the spring.the first one is a kohaku and second one is a Goshiki both are female.

Thank you, just beautiful! Do you have any preferences for farms and varieties?

 

[Dancing Fire]

Maple...these 2 nisei from Toshio Sakai went into mud in the spring.the first one is a kohaku and second one is a Goshiki both are female.

Thank you, just beautiful! Do you have any preferences for farms and varieties?

Dainichi...Kohaku and Showa
Sakai...Kohaku and Showa
Omosako...Shiro
Isa...Showa

here are my two cheap Dainichi Showa.i don't own expensive koi.

 

[Amys Bling]

wow- didnt realize you could "upgrade" your fish

 

[Dancing Fire]

wow- didnt realize you could "upgrade" your fish

why not??...we can also "upgrade" the husband or the wife..

 

[maplefemme]

Ah, you're giving me the bug, I can't seem to get my SO into koi though, but he's up for a pond, so I'm going on the hope of "build it and they will come...

 

[MissGotRocks]

Very cool DF! Thanks for the pictures! I really don't know anything about these fish but man the $$ and time they take - wow!!

I love to watch aquariums but I still have that fear that when you leave and come back they might be dead - just like my goldfish when I was a little girl!

 

[kenny]

I'm so jealous.
I'd love to have a koi pond but don't have the time.

 

[Dancing Fire]

I'm so jealous.
I'd love to have a koi pond but don't have the time.

wiser to spent $$$ on jewelry.there's only one thing certain about koi soon or later "they'll die".wish i can have all the money back that i spent on the fish hobby and spent it on diamonds instead,cuz diamonds don't die.

 

[maplefemme]

I'm so jealous.
I'd love to have a koi pond but don't have the time.

wiser to spent $$$ on jewelry.there's only one thing certain about koi soon or later "they'll die".wish i can have all the money back that i spent on the fish hobby and spent it on diamonds instead,cuz diamonds don't die.

My first quality Kohaku did a grand launch from my indoor pond the same day I picked her up from the airport.
She then flopped her way under the heat register and dried out. I came home from dinner and couldn't figure out where she'd gone, I was frantically counting koi...
When I found her I was devastated, I put her in water and she began to breathe, I held her upright for three hours in the pond, like a beached whale rescue, my hands shriveled to a prune and she eventually died.
I was gutted...yeah diamonds are "forever" by comparison

 

[lbbaber]

I know nothing about Koi but can someone please explain what "going to the mud" means?

Beautiful fish and tanks by the way

 

[Dancing Fire]

I know nothing about Koi but can someone please explain what "going to the mud" means?

Beautiful fish and tanks by the way

it means putting the koi into a "big mud pond" for growth from May-Oct. the koi will be harvested in Oct.