| [quote=gspotmc;109460]Lam,
Tosai are only good to study and also a learning experience. I bought a $2k Ogawa tosai.
Her pattern is very good. Body was excellent By the time she got to nisai she was already 21 inches. After a month she got ill with a tumor. The risk is very high. Growing them out is rrewarding because you see them grow and change. Some tosai will look very nice but the question is will she look good at nisai and sansai. The reason I got the Ogawa kohaku is that I want to have at least a young champ or mature champ. She never got to that point.
Michael
The problem with one fish is the cost of doing business . Buying and shiping for one fish can be pricy as shipping one box or 10 is the same amount of work to the breeder or dealer . Simply the cost of doing business dictates that the price doubles for one fish .Now if you would have purchased ten the price would have been $10,000 and even that is a small amount for breeders of high quality fish . Out of the 10 you would have at least 5 possible contenders for a GC in the US . Although the standards are rising rapidly .In raising tosai I think that it is important to have just tosai in one pond and if that is not possible then in fact nisai might be a better choice .
As we improve our stock and move to better quality fish we also have to take into consideration how much value our fish we are discarding will bring . Fish are improving at such a rapid pace that in fact they are going down in value .Where one lives can dictate the value for reselling very much as in Ontario Canada . I f one purchases high quality nisai by the time one gets them home the value will be halved . By buying a few boxes of a higher grade tosai and raising them in a mud pond it is possible to break even here and learn a lot . It takes a few years for people to undestand that skin quality can double the price of a fish but first they have own one . By bringing in better tosai I hope I can enlighten some people in this area and this will promote the koi hobby around here from its very low level .
Regards
Eugene |