Thread: questions
View Single Post
Old 11-02-2004   #5 (permalink)
dick benbow
Honmei
 
dick benbow's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: seattle, wa
Posts: 4,527
for fish keepers who have kept all kinds, the attractiveness of koi is not only their friendliness, size and beauty but the fact that they get along so well with each other. Not all fish accept others of their species so well.



probably the best known koi as far as age was Hanako, the koi reputed to be sevarl hundred years old. alledgedly the age was surmised from a telescope of a scale in which growth rings were interpreted into years. While this theory has been challenged koi is a long lived fish. especially when you think in terms of most dogs and cats that make it to the teen years ( 13-19 )

I'll comment more later!
dick benbow is offline   Reply With Quote