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Is good broodstock/oyagoi over rated or is the number of years to develop good brood stock exaggerated?

In the 2004 earthquake, Mr. Hirasawa(Marudo) lost ALL of his female oyagoi. Just to be clear, he lost ALL his oyagoi. I have no idea what he did to recover, how many experiments went wrong, how many years it will take to know if he has the "right" combination of oyagoi now or if he'll need to continue to experiment with different pairs for years and years, but....

I will be going back to Japan in October. I will be purchasing nisai from the new parent stock Marudo has selected. Why? Because Marudo is my man. I have never been disappointed. I will be his guinea pig. You figure his new parent stock produced fry in Spring of 2005 after the 2004 earthquake so this year will be his first batch of nisai from the new parents.

I often post these two picture of two distinctly different Marudo kohaku that I purchased at different times. This year I will add a third, possibly very different female kohaku to the lot.