After some days home again, I now have enough time to post some pics of the little gems that turned up on the Monday after the Big Event at Nissei Koi Farm of Quality Koi. MikeM is doing a great job as usual of posting a chronicle of events for our enjoyment and I thought these few pics would be best elsewhere, not popped into the middle of the harvest's thread.
After a lot of fun stuff, (Is it true folks from the Pacific Northwest have more fun than the Californians?) Mat and Ross finally went out to pull some ochiba fry. The parent cross was female ochiba to two male kohakus, one of them GR. What do you think they got?
Well, at first I was surprised because there was no evidence of any Iowa or Arkansas genetics in the whole bowl of about 500 fish. I saw one black dorsal on an orange fish and one tobi shiro muji, that's it. These fish had been culled well. Ochibas came in three different color shades, light, medium and dark. There were also soragoi and chagoi, each of them in many shades.
And kohaku, he types with a straight face, not betraying his excitement. Nice ones. Mat was a little possesive about the kohaks.
I looked for a red and blue fish but couldn't see it, maybe later. Now I regret not choosing any of the dark ochibas to watch.
Some pics for you. It will be obvious that I am not a photographer. And now I wish for a pic of the whole tank full, the button nose GR ochiba, and whole groups of fish side by side.
#1 a net full, pond side.
#2 one little kohaku
#3 a couple of light ochibas
#4 two medium ochibas and two chagois that look yellow in the flash.
#5 some New Jersey that was smuggled home in the bag.
#6 some of the blue that Mr. Benbow pulled out for consideration.
Mickey the windowman