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Quote: Originally Posted by Arthur Lam, In Niigata tosai are packed very tight in greenhouse ponds for the Winter, so tight that you cannot see the water in the pond for the fish swimming at the surface. They typically stay in such quarters for 5 months. During that period they grow very little. Now, if it were true that such treatment stunt the koi growth for life, how do the breeders in niigata produce koi over 3' ??? Arthur

hey Arthur,
I'll answer that as easily and plainly as I can...
THAT is the NORMAL thing to do... ALL the todai at that time of the year are "cramped"...a;lthough the higher the percieved worth the less they are cramped....
it is the tosai that are kept crowded AFTER that period that get behind in growing...