| interesting process but a bit of a stretch from reality programing! (lol)
If i get half a dozen good ones from a new spawning, I'm happy. My tried and true shiro utsuri's I get 30-40 really good ones. They get better and better each year. People have won prizes each year with them. The only other pair worth anything is my matsukawabake's. All other's I'm still playing with genetics to get to "click". Most frustrating is the kohaku. They either have pattern and no quality, or quality and no pattern! Can't get the genes together properly!
If I had to depend solely on revenue derived from spawning, I'd have starved three years ago( editor's note: Dick has been spawning for 3 years)
Fun learning tho. Makes you appreciate what masters like momotaro are pulling off. His last tosai sale last april, i didn't see one koi that i wouldn't have loved to own! Make me wonder how our publisher Brian is doing with his kohaku he won big with a few years back! |