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Thanks for the posting, pics and comments. This is great!
Iwashita has great Gin rin. If I were buying one that would be the breeder I would select for my GR asagi.
Pricing wise a good asagi is as expensive as a good anything. The cheepest I ever saw a good asagi three year old was about $6.000. What's good to me and good to you could be quite varied because of the time and study I have put into this. I would say from a breeders standpoint I wouldn't sell a good asagi at tosai
but would hang on to until they are atleast three. Some times you can get decent two year olds that are close. They usually run $2.000. to $3,000. In japan when a hobbyist wants to find a decent one amongst the tosai they select 6 and grow them on. usually one will come up as respectable.
Hints for keeping: they do not do well in water that favorors gosanke. You want less hardness and soft ph. Under 100 for hardness (no more than 120 )
and ph around 7.0 to 7.2.
when you buy tosai, you want to look for white nose, red on pecs about 20-30% in close to the body. You roll the baby over and check the under side.
a white belly, with red showing along the sides at the lowest belly line you can get. the least amount showing on the sides, is best. Red comes up over the next two years. Weakest area is around tail. If the red is heaviest along the belly and already up to the lateral line at the base of the tail, it will over run in the back.
Do not feed color food to these koi if your intent on rearing a good one. Most hobbyists like to have one with a group of other koi so you may have to compromise thier different needs and try and allign in the middle.
Anything I have left out follow up with questions please!
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