Good morning all, we are short staffed this Friday and Saturday, please do not come to the shop to collect koi, unless you know they are in the shop, other wise open as normal. Momotaro male nisai going on the website asap. WE NOW TAKE PAYPAL Tamasaba and other Japanese goldfish now in stock.
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                                      Today was to be our last day , we then pack up and move to Isawa tomorrow , to visit Sakama koi farm .

I  have only had five days , and that's all I really needed this time , ive nearly already filled two shipments , so plenty of koi purchased , and a lot more to come today .

                                    Once again we set off at 8am , and it was already 24 degrees ! Being on the large side , its a battle to keep enough fluids inside me , especially when your netting , bowling and moving koi around in a fish house anywhere between 30 and 40 degrees , a small godsend was that there was a breeze , well , when I say breeze , it was bloody windy , so that kept it cool all day , but rattled the fish houses some of the time . First stop of the day was Yamazaki koi farm. He told us he was releasing a pond for sale , and good to his word he had . I soon had many koi in a bowl in from of me , I selected a doitsu hi utsuri , gin rin hi utsuri , beni kikokoryu , doitsu kujaku , very good gin shiro utsuri and a super clean matsuba ogon . Next some excellent beni kikokoryu  , kin ki utsuri . I then selected two sansai , hq gin shiro , and a kikokoyu . We stopped and had a cold drink with the breeder , said our good byes and left for Ozumi koi farm . 

 

                                   On arrival at Ozumi koi farm , there were still lots of koi around , and I got some prices , and stated catching up koi . I got a lot of koi in the bowl , but a lot were rejected for various faults , and although we had some very nice koi , not enough to make it worth shipping . So I found a sansai metallic ochiba , possibly male , but very clean , and great pattern ! So I took the pictures and did my video . Some of you may have noticed , that we are doing more group pictures of koi . There is a few reasons for this , A : its too bloody hot to mess around for ages taking pics . B : We are buying so many koi , that we now don't have the time to do individual pictures on smaller nisai . Plus it drives the breeders nuts , and it gets us out of there , so they can keep running their business . Good byes were said and we  rang Kase , and was shocked to find that he had also sold out . I wasn't unduly worried , as we had bought a  lot of great koi this week . We popped in to Izumiya , to a bowl a sansai that we enquired about a few days ago , the koi had be taken back to the mud pond , oh well , you snooze you lose !

 

 

                                7-11 time again , we racked our brains wondering where we could finish up catching some koi , it was obvious , back to Maruhiro koi farm . When we arrived his wife was busy getting a shipment ready with another worker from the farm . Hinori was there , so we rang him and and he arrived a short time later . Once again , it was time for a sit down drink , catch up and take the piss out of each other ! He then asked if we wanted to catch up some koi , I shook my head and said nah , the whole room looked at me as if I had gone mad , not really , of course I do ! While at the ponds , the water was so green , I just couldn't catch koi in it . So we ventured up to the top ponds , he asked what I was looking for , tancho anything I asked , smalls size and good quaiity . He then went off catching up koi for us , this is the only breeder I ask to choose koi for us . He knows my tastes , and again had half a few little tancho types , and some very good marutens as well . As I was admiring what he had caught up , he then got another bowl and started adding bigger koi into this , including a char utsuri , kogani ochiba , gin rin showa and matsuba ogons , all nisai except the gin matsuba that was sansai . 50cm nisai kawari mono  he certainly is getting there ! A deal was struck , and it was more than fair , as I tried to do my videos and pictures , Hinori was back in the main pond , pulling out huge koi in another bowl , I thought they must be for his shipment  , lets get done and get out of the way ! As I walked out the fish house to put the camera away , he called me back and said Gary san , and pointed in the bowl , there was go sanke , ogons , midori goi and loads of others between 65 and 75cm . I looked at him , and he pointed at the koi and said Gary san , buy all !!!! He is a true salesman , even my Japanese agent started laughing , he said your right Gary san , he is crazy , just like you ! That's why you to get along lol ! I would have loved to buy them all , but it was too much , I got my choice down to three , a near 70cm kindai showa , maruten showa around 78cm and a 72 cm yamabuki ogon . Once again the price was fair , so I bought all three . Shook hands and said our good byes , and for the last time this trip , drove down the mountains , to return to the hotel . Tomorrow , we leave for Isawa , there we hope to buy go sanke , and doitsu go sanke jumbo tosai , may be some other bits as well . 

 

Very nice quality nisai 

 

All female and nisai , except gin matsuba which is female and sansai !

 

 

 

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