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Got my fix at last!

Helped Lisa and Mark selecting their Goshiki/Koromo spawning yesterday.

How do you fancing having to sort this lot in the blazing sun?

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But they looked happy enough in their work.

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No wonder - look at the quality they had to select from!

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Photos don't really do them justice - just wait 'til you see the photos Lisa took of some in a bowl - WOW!!

Thanks for another great day Lisa and Mark.

Look forward to seeing you again - soon!!

Bob

Glad you had a great day Bob

The Koi look great, will wait for some of Lisa's pictures

Thanks for your help on Friday Bob (Kayoss).

We are really pleased with these Goshiki. The interesting thing is that we have done two Goshiki spawnings - same male but two different females. This second spawning has produced much better offspring than the first spawning, even though the mothers are both Momotaro.

These fry all look like Kohaku but as that is what you want to see in a Goshiki of this age and size - that's great! The skin quality on these Goshiki is excellent.

Now we're gearing up for carrying out first selection on the second lot of spawnings that we did.

No rest for the wicked!

Lisa


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Hi Lisa,
That marauten one in the centre of the picture looks to have a lovely round dot , certainly be interesting to see it develope.
Dave.

Hi Lisa
Can I please reserve the one with the dot on it's nose looks like it has a lot of characture

An excellent spawning result. I am jealous.

BB

Yes what a great way to earn a living and to have been lucky enough to help i can tell you its great fun and very interesting as Mark explains why he is doing this or that which for Muppet's like I is a big help.

Momotaro Goshiki?

Maurice.

Actually, it's a female Momotaro Kohaku crossed with a male Goshiki (Tanaka).

During the development of the Goshiki it has been crossed back with Kohaku to further develop the Kohaku pattern so this is an acceptable cross. We are very pleased with the results.

Lisa

Just came across this link

http://www.momotaro-koi.org/english/oyakoi/index.htm

It shows that Momotaro use a female Goshiki crossed with male Kohaku.

Great minds think alike!!

Lisa

They look good, lets hope you get lots of goshiki and not too many kohaku.

Maurice.

had lunch with Mark & Lisa today, then went back for a fix!!!

you would not believe the number of shusui they have harvested this morning, there are millions!!!

cant wait to see them at 2nd selection - now that will be interesting.

Sue x

Sue i remember walking down that mud pond and seeing millions of the little buggers it looks like a good harvest

It's just taken us three days to go through all the shusui but we've finally done it!

This was probably one of our biggest harvests ever and we are very pleased with the standard. Once again, skin quality is very good. These fry are only 3 and a half weeks old but they have grown well. Tomorrow we are going to count exactly how many were in the harvest - by the end of yesterday we had worked our way through 37,000. We have kept less than 10% to grow on and have been more selective about what we keep than ever before.

Tomorrow morning we are harvesting Sanke - hopefully we will get through these in a couple of days.

below is a picture of the Shusui fry just after we had started selection.

Lisa

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so come on guys does anyone want to give a guess as to exactly how many was in the shusui harvest then??????