Auction postponed for a few days, due to being too busy in the shop to take pics and videos. Also please note.......... If your looking to join in our auction, please check you accounts, a little while ago we had a problem with our auction plug in, nothing to do with our website people, in fact they were the ones who corrected it for the plug in auction people. The only thing wrong now, is some people cant log in, so please open a new account, if you cant, email me and ill delete the old account and you can then reregister for an account. WE NOW TAKE PAYPAL Tamasaba and other Japanese goldfish now in stock.
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Getting up today i realised that it was getting to be a nightmare getting round , it had snowed constantly for 48 hours and its still snowing as i write the blog now . To prove the point we first went to the Sakai high quality fish house in Nagaoka to see the three tategoi that i purchased last year and left in Japan for the summer , a ten minute journey normally , today an hour !! On arrival i was taken to the pond where the koi where , and have to say at first i was a little unsure about my decision to buy these very expensive tosai and leave them in the mudponds . But as they were bowled one by one my doubts turned to joy as they were as good as the breeder predicted . I was even happier when he described them still as tategoi , and asked if id like to leave them again for one more year , i was so tempted but i decieded against it and will be shipping them home, as we left Sakai came out and asked if we were coming out again for tateshita in aprill , i said i hoped so and he asked us to join him for dinner when next out there , a nice touch from one of the best breeders in Niigata  .From here we left to go back through Ojiya to Hosakai , bad move , the traffic was horrendous and the mountain roads lethal , and to add to that after an hour travelling this breeder had nothing we really wanted to buy , and our wheels locked and we slid down the hill nearly trashing one of our competitors cars ! . So back to Ojiy to buy rail tickets , visit the dry goods shop and get something to eat .It was around this time i realised that today was going to be my bad day , reguler readers will know that i always have a bad day , and today was going to be it ! Visits to Miyatora , Marasakaand  Miyashi also proved fruitless .With the snow really coming in fast alot of breeders said that they couldnt even get to the fish houses so not to come , in fact one said dont be silly ,  go back to the hotel !!!! So we decieded to call into Dianichi to have a quick look and then return to base. Im always impressed at the showa here , they are undoubtably some of the best in the world , but untill im looking at that level , we will continue to buy elsewhere as i think we get better value with other breeders . Although one day may be we will need to buy koi at the level here that no one else seems to be able to breed to ! Travelling back to the hotel i couldnt help feeling a bit disapointed that i hadnt bought a single koi all day , then i looked through the photos of koi we had bought and was really pleased with what we had bought  .So back for an early night and get ready planes , trains and automobiles ................

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