| Chagoi are really much fun. I have one I purchased as nisai at around 16". It is now 5 years old and 30+" (have not measured it yet this Spring). The story about this koi is that until last year everybody (including me) thought it was female. I mean female everything: temperament, behavior, looks, all of it.
It was so obviously female that I even never thought of trying to milk it. That was until last Spring's checkup when Tony had it in the tub lining it for measurement and went "Oh ho, it is a male! (finding roughness on the gill plates)".
A year later it still looks female. I will post a photo in a couple of weeks.
A great Chagoi: brick red with dark blue netting.
A Chagoi is said to bring peace in a koi pond. This is due to their poised attitude when a disturbance occurs: all the other koi look up and see the undisturbed Chagoi and think "all is OK because Chagoi is not thinking much about it".
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Arthur
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