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Ok Dick, which one on the left did you like?
The water I am using at the moment to raise all the babies is very hard, Plans are afoot to change this along with removing all contaminants from my local stream water, more on that one at a later date.
Mike, I have little experience of breeding yellow koi, having only bred yamabuki prior to these hariwake. Yamabuki for sure, the best bet to end up with a large koi without red shimmies is to pick a pale colour tosai. The more intense the yellow when young, the greater the chance of spoiling when older.
I’ve only owned a few hariwake over the years, but have noticed the intensity of the yellow to fade over the years, but this is probably due to the decline in lustre more than the actual colour going. Time will tell how my babies develop as they get older, but their mother looks good at 5 years.
Jaco, these were bred from pure line of Hariwake, but they still produce kikusui and orange ogon, along with platinum and yamabuki.
Interesting you mention kujaku cross kikusui, because due to a slip-up, I only ended up with one male kujaku, so I popped in a male kikusui for my spawning. They were late spawned, last day of August so are small and unculled at present. But there seems all sorts amongst them. But then, seeing this is my first kujaku spawning, I have no idea how true they breed to start with! I’ll post pictures of the mix in a few weeks.
MikeT, thanks for your thoughts, you have no idea what these sort of comments mean.
Maurice.
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