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Originally Posted by
Richard Rombold 
As always Marie you do my fish more justice than I. I worked today sorting through the main group of nisai koi we brought up Thursday. 500 fish total. Not the quality of this year's tosai, but a step forward from the nisai I posted back in November. What is relevant is how diverse my breeding has been as is illustrated in the differences in Marie's two fish. There are many more variations than this. There is no sjkoi keito to date. The current challenge is the process of tightening up the breeding program and directing it towards a goal. There are so many directions it could take, and so many influences that could be introduced. This is the whole purpose of posting on KB. I am calibrating and adjusting.
The first and most difficult portion of my koi venture is safely tucked under the belt. I know mud. I can raise koi efficiently and in number. Now it has become time to concentrate on quality and breeding. To bring together all those loose strings and make a strong rope. Good things will happen, but it will take many more years. There are no short cuts to raising koi. You can only do it, learn and adapt. The difficult thing is to survive.