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I was reading my old posts to try and absorb more information that I may have, and probably have missed in the past.
This is a really good thread that should continue for the benefit of others.
My showa, that was a gift from 2 very special people, sanke, Yamabuki are all doing wonderfully in my cold little pond. My koi have surprisingly quite eating unlike the previous years. I recently learned that fasting a koi will improve their shiroji, but I am not sure, because I have been extremely mistaken in the past. My grandfather tries to feed them occaisionaly, but they only really eat maybe 1 or 2 pellets a day.

I read the article on yume koi and printed it up. It is intresting how they, instead of making it straight hard or straight soft, use 2 water spouts, one hard, and one soft to balance out the final hardness in the water. This kind of method would allow a person to have extreme flexibility in their experiments, the only thing that is preventing me from doing this is, the fact that I have no Job, and I would speculate that that kind of equipment wouldnt be cheap, but right now, like aquitori said, or was it benbow? well anyways, like one of them said, right now I shouldnt worry about it too much, just provide a good place for my koi to grow happy, and I agree.

I was wondering if anyone could humor me on something that is quite new to me, maybe all of us.
I am not sure if I have my sources correct, but, what Is New type sumi? once again, I am really not sure what I am saying, but I hear some breeders have their koi, like showa, have new thicker sumi?
Are there any differences between the old and the new?
Once again, Not sure what I am asking.

Also, my Kigoi is developing these 2 red dots. I think it is because the koi is too bright at such a young age. But my Yamabuki ogon is fine, for now.


I have noticed on my showa, its Head hi, has weird scratches on it. Please dont ask me how they got there, but they are extremely small, but one is big enough to let me see what the scratch has done. The beni is real a real deep red, but its color itself sheems shallow, because the scratch has eliminated the beni in that particular spot.
I have learned very little to what can be learned here, but a lot to what I knew prior to this showa, thanks russ, awesome educational opportunity. There is nothing like experiencing it first hand.