| in practise i get more than that average price and id never sold a koi for more than 20 bucks!
you guys must have too much competition..or too many koi.
i once sold 3 of my bosses kohaku for 20 bucks each cause i knew no better and the purchaser said no problem! 20 bucks? ok..more? more? now i know they were worth about $200. oops. she bought three and i wondered why she was buying so many red and white ones from the tank and not wanting any other colours.
now i know more, but problem is i dont just see koi as feeders and everyone i have to look at and maybe put aside, someone once said if its got a red circle on its head keep it.. so many would hit 10cm and were crap, skinny, yellow head with this browny orange brain spot.
now im looking for heaps more in a fish, ive looked at a two hundred pics of show koi, champions.. and read and listened to you guys and now im looking for this little koi amongst them all thats worth something..first it was beauty is in the eye of the beholder.. now i see there are rules and what makes a nice koi, i think im getting obsessed or something.. i see a flaw and go awwww sorry little guy, next?
have you guys got what ive got, will i go pale and start lookng like a fish?
to think we used to just cross everything we had all together cause it seemed like youd get better survival..
now i read about this fish the koi, i feel this need to start with really good stock.
i think ill have to put in an application to fisheries to import some good koi.
we arent even allowed to get em in over here anymore so we are playing around with some pretty poor stuff. i hear i can pull a one of import though for such reasoning.
if i do get a one off import license someday who can tell me where i should get some stock from?
good lines, so i dont take 30 or 100 years to have them myself.
im not worried about how theyll go in a show themselves but more about their shape and colour but not patterns. |