New Forest Koi. Buying Baby Koi – Part 4. Baby Koi- Part 4: Quality By: Chai Taevanitcharoen When purchasing anything, you look for certain qualities.
When purchasing real estate, it’s LOCATION, LOCATION, and LOCATION! When purchasing koi, it’s QUALITY, QUALITY, QUALITY, and QUALITY; I like to call them the four Q’s! During “koi-talk”, the word “quality” is always the main topic. Often, people learn from different sources and develop their own opinions. I believe that breeders are most knowledgeable in recognizing quality. I find myself trying to learn their techniques. They cull fish by the millions, watch them grow and change, and pass on their knowledge from generation to generation. It is up to the hobbyist to learn to tell them apart.
Quality is the most significant factor in the price and comes in different levels. Gender is also popular among hobbyists. Females also usually have a better white. At koi shows, male fish often have difficulty in beating females in the larger class. Koi Fry! - Matt's Koi Pond. {*style:<b><i>There's a lot to consider before you decide to raise koi fry </i></b>*}but for me, there's nothing more rewarding. It's a myth that you can't raise beautiful koi. That little bit of bogus information was most likely created by koi salemen. It is true that only a few of the fish you raise will ever amount to anything that passes as a show fish.
Therefor, you need to be able to discard the one's that aren't worth keeping. By some other means than turning them loose in the local waterways. That's a koi egg, magnified. In a few weeks, you'll be able to see them a little better, swimming around and eating constantly. Feed them very sparingly but several times a day. A good food at four weeks is frozen brine shrimp. If you want patterns, look for that but you may have to wait a bit longer before you see patterns come through. But do keep thinning them out as they grow, just to insure they stay healthy. These babies to the left are the cream of the crop.
Types of Koi. There are many types of koi for example koi carp, Nishikigoi, Japanese Koi, all are names applied to coloured varieties of the common carp Cyprinus carpio.
Whatever name you choose to call them, Koi are truly one of natures wonders and add a magnificent palette of colour to any garden fish pond. Since their early beginnings in the Nigata region of Japan in the Nineteenth century, Koi have been selectively bred and developed to produce the many varied types of coloured Koi available today. The earliest types of Koi produced were bred from the fish kept by rice farmers to supplement their diet. From time to time coloured mutations would appear amongst these carp and some were kept as pets. It seems most likely that the first types to appear were the red and white varieties now referred to as Kohaku. The pictures below show the most common types of Koi carp now available with a brief description of their origin where known.
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25th zna hongkong koi show 2010 Kohaku 85 bu winner.