Its July 8 and my swim trunks are in the suitcase for an August 19th departure!
Now lets see, my head is spinning at this point---
we went from .6% salt in Japanese ponds at ALL TIMES, to-
.6% for resistant parasites due to Japanese practices-
to a Vet that remembers when he practiced on koi before Japan imported resistant fish!!!!!
OK I'll play along. JAPANESE KOI come from JAPAN, so I haven't a clue what Dr J was working on? The first koi show in the USA was 1974. I bought koi from Japan in 1985 and I was not near one of the first? Joe Zuritsky was importing koi via a stop in California in 1975. Lester Berkow was collecting Japanese koi in 1984. Ron Goforth has collected koi since 1978. Bob Finnegan has collected Japanese koi since 1976.
The KOI USA magazine was started in 1978 catering to the Japanese koi in Southern California. Even the old timer that Kent references dates back to those days.
So how do I reconcile these known facts against a Vet who says he treated koi before all these Japanese imports arrived??
Mmmmmm? I think he is about 46- 48 years old? Most folks graduate Vet school at about age 24-25. That would put him graduating in about 1983. Me thanks the statement is questionable.