| thanks Dick (great to see you posting again), Mike, & Joe for the comments on the shusui.
Mike, the fish does dash at pellets at times, but in general is well behaved and not as jumpy as my impression of shusui would be. i'm not expecting a very large koi this being a male, but on the bright side there's smaller chance of me spoiling the body with my heavy feeding(potbelly being a problem with a few tosai i'm growing) . i'm starting to like shusui (though nowhere near Dick's apparent obsession) and today went to check out a few tosais from Sakai at the local dealer.
one of them really caught my eye, beatiful clean light blue, clear head, even scaling. best part was the body/head which really gave me an impression of great balance and potential BIG koi. The price quoted was around than USD1,200 which was a bit too steep imho but anyway someone else bought the fish. too bad it was bought by an out of towner otherwise i'd be tempted to keep track of the fish's progress just for my own education cause it was one of the rare occasions that i had confidence in my feeling about the future of such a small fish.
meantime i'll keep u guys posted on this one if anything interesting develops. |