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I appreciate the encouragement. I'm pleased to see that everyone is not as snobbish as they might have been, considering the difference in quality of our koi. I always raise the best I can get and release them when they're 12-15 inch. I have a kawari thats been breeding steadily for 4 yrs. She is a platinum kujaku with lovely skin. The other fish I saw breeding in May were 2 more kujakus, my big ki matsuba female, a gin rin ogon male and my gin rin hajiro male. I usually have about 40 adults and I've seen as many as a couple hundred fry at a time swooping in a huge flock like little birds.
I'd like to root out some of the pond puppies that are breeding, because they do not improve my mix! I think I need about eight or ten guys and a really good seine net! I was able to add one of Brett Rowley's fine Ki Utsuris in 04 so that improved my blood lines some. I expect three or four of my thirty fry on hand are pretty decent. I'll raise them in my fish room and back they'll go to breed.
I would just love to go to Japan, my father lived there for ten years as a translater after the war, and he gave me my appreciation for most things Japanese. I know I would weep outright at the beauty of the fish they keep at home (and the prices!!). However poverty precludes it.
Mitten, my lake is on our grandfathers farm five hours south of me, but I get down there whenever I can. Its truely in the wilds of Kentucky, you have to be careful you don't suprise a bear or a wild cat, although the snakes are more of a problem. They eat baby fish too, alas. However if there were no predators I'd be over run with fish. Now if they'd only eat tobys...
I'll show you a few more pics. Hope this isn't boring!
Hmmm don't know what I did but pics won't attach. I'll try again
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