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hey we're back at Mystic Koi and i wanna talk about the Kohaku a little
bit more
you know we talked about how it begins with Kohaku and ends with Kohaku
its pretty deep subject so wanna touch on a little bit more
Shawn take it to the next step, yea sure Eric, ahh, I have this great
Sanke im gonna pull up right now I wanna show you
the Kohaku that is inside the Sanke great to show you the pattern what's going on
check it out
check out this massive babe she's hot how old is she
four-years-old 4 its a 4-year-old
Taisho Sanke from Koda Koifarm
and ah certainly you can see how
how beautiful the shape is on her and her white but really why we pulled her up
is you take all that sumi away you take all that black away
and your left with this bam bam bam
absolute beautiful Kohaku pattern that we talked about
big O steps on her hah oh yeah so she's four years old and so she's
how long have you had her did you just bring her in yeah I just broad her in this fall
ah she's great so she's been in some mud ponds yeah
yeah for four summers she spent in four summers
really really
how did how did she get the privilege of staying in those mud ponds for four summers
tell us that so
the breeder ah as Tosai
or like less than a year old ah pick this fish basically because
it had no deformities it was looking really really nice
had no idea where the sumi was gonna come up sumi is black
yeah ah it was just at that time just a red and white fish
so it looked just like a Kohaku right ah he doesn't know where the black is gonna come
up
so he'll trow him in the mud pond for the summer she'll eat a ton food and grow
and that black will start coming in
and if the pattern is where he wants it to be
great is gonna keep it for another year is not real happy with it
he's gonna sell it to me as a 2-year-old at a pretty inexpensive price
right ah so so let's get this straight so
the breeder looks at the fish things it has potential right those in the mud pond
for a season
yeah and then at the end of the season they drain that mud pond out and catch all of the fish out of there
during the fall that's what I was doing in November nice going out with the guys and
harvesting these Koi from these big mud ponds so at that point they
reevaluate them exactly they gonna keep them another year or put them back
right I saw this one I had to have it and ah
he made me an OK deal on it so I was able to score
great alright well let's take a
lets take a look at something else give us some more Kohaku absolutely absolutely
lets ah lets let her go
beautiful this ah is an Asagi
yes and you love this one believe it or not this is
were Kohaku comes from this is this is where it originates from yeah
can you believe it this is a blue and gray fish
little bit of orange on the side of it yeah a
this is where we talked about the history of Kohaku last time
yes and I really thought this would be a great example to show you
ah evolution in the change of
Koi from from where they started off
so was that you said about 100 or 120 years ago yeah a 120 years ago so this one
maybe took
twenty-years to like get to this point you think or oh year absolutely maybe yeah
yeah because this is very very similar to a carp
in color with the with the group you see
yeah in but this these little things started to develop 100
120 years ago and absolutely probably 100 years ago approximately
something like this was coming out like hey look what we you got going you got it either the
breeder had something in mind that he was trying to you to make happen
or one day when out there
was poling fish and saw this one that's totally cool and he's like
ah this is awesome I gotta set this aside I got to keep this one so
in a normal normal Asagi especially Asagi back then
the red line here that we see here and
here was a lot more pronounced and they wanted to bring that
red from the bottom and rapid all the way up to the top
ah and while doing so they're able to eliminate
that bluish color and have that
snow white background beautiful let's put a Kohaku in next to it
yeah that be fun we got a jumper
yeah Asagi tend
they tend to do that quite a bit they like jumping lets see if she
cams that Asagi down
thought yeah I went and pulled up this Kohaku hear just just look at those fish
their completely different but this is
this is where these fish came from right yeah I love
I love going back in history and understanding how how
they involved them like that you know I'm absolutely its not evolution but mean
they its the evolution of Koi breeding exactly yeah you got it
you got it and it's great to see the
you can see the dedication that these Koi Breeders have put into
and the afford thats gone into making these fish so when they get that fish thats just perfect they can command
the dollar that they want absolutely they been doing it for hundred and some what years right
exactly exactly good for them man good for them yeah
now we have our self's a nice 3 step ha yeah we do
you know the Sanke that you picked up that cool 4 year old had a a nice 3 step pattern
almost similar to that only the last island was pulled back farther pulled back a little bit farther
but but had a little horseshoe in it it did have that horseshoe yeah absolutely
ah witch is pretty amazing because it's a fairly unique pattern
and that's where you really can't see how it begins and ends with Kohaku its that same
unusual three-steps I think that was a good
good comparison
again what we're looking at in Kohaku is that nice body shape
beautiful white ah and then
gorgeous gorgeous red fiery hi
this is also a two-year-old Koi and so
it's still developing still maturing and we can see that
pretty example for two years yeah not bad not bad at all ah
you look here at the front scales yes ah its a little bit cloudy
I was gonna ask you to talk about that yeah that pink color we call that sachi
and it means that there's red still developing there is red
underneath that white scale right coming coming up its like shingled effect right there
yeah exactly but you don't see it on a upper one right here right you don't
see you don't see it
in the back so on its back pattern here
back pattern here and the back pattern here it looks as if
ah ah razor blade was taken and you can see
how you can actually see on the scale finishes yeah no doubt ah that's what we
call
hiwa so is there relevance the fact that there all on the back and its like
the fish is still growing so its right right absolutely cause we want we want that red
to be very very stable
ah on that end scale ah so if we had pink here
it would mean either red is fading ah
or it's just gonna be blurry there all the time so we want we want like our
anchor in the back witch's that real real clean red
well that's great well I think that's a nice way to end
end our Kohaku discussion yeah right yeah
awesome Shawn well thanks a lot on this one yeah of course Eric we'll catch you again real soon
on the next one
see you man have a great day take care well that ends our discussion on the Kohaku for today
a big thanks to Mystic Koi and Shawn McHenry for sharing all their knowledge
and expertise
until next time I'm Eric Triplett The Pond Digger
thanks for watching