I made my way back up to Upland California
to visit Mystic Koi we're gonna grab Shawn McHenry
and we're gonna talk about what happens after the development up the Kohaku
which fish came next this is gonna be fun let's go grab him and find out
Shawn Eric
thanks for having us man whats up man good to see ya
in our last discussion about Koi we talked about the development of the
Kohaku
and how it evolved right and a what happens next tell us
well man there's nothing more better that I can think up to talk about
then Gosanke Gosanke Gosanke ah Gosanke we refer to
as the big three the big three varieties out there
you go to a Koi show ah and you're gonna look at the Grand Champion fish
it's always gonna be a Gosanke Gosanke's big three
its a Sanke Kohaku witch we already talked about ya
and the Showa a and both those verities the Sanke and the Showa
we get from Kohaku so lets talk about those
lets do it yeah I see you bould up some guys for us yeah sure have lets check these guys out
are these guys or girls I don't mean to ah actually we have we have
two females and one male actually
ah yeah so ah this is a nice bunch
yeah I think it's a pretty pretty slick group these are all 2 year olds
all from Nigato breeders from Sekiguti who is
my main man is my favorite guys and Cato which is this beautiful Sanke here
so so of course we start out with a Kohaku
beautiful red white gorgeous fish and then
ah about 20-30 years later we develop the Sanke
which is red and white fish you see the nice
Kohaku pattern ah then now we have the addition of suni
black and if you notice the black is ah very very small slivers
or steps a little little tiny steps of black
like a tortoiseshell then
finally we have the Showa and the Showa
red and white fish like the Kohaku but now we have these
big grandiose black stripes
coming across the whole body this is a completely black
fish when its born as opposed to the Sanke which is a white fish when its born
so all-black and now these big black stripes
if you notice on the Showa's fins
ah the Showa has these really cool what we call motoguro
ah which is almost like a ah a black
sort of ink circle right at the base of the pectoral fin
ah the Sake doesn't have that it has some black and the fin
but it's not that really cool round dot in the center
there we have more like a little strip little strip yeah exactly exactly
is the to the to the normal person that doesn't understand Koi you know they see
tri-color Koi its a its a white black and red
so they don't understand the differences between the two yeah
I think it's I think it's important to have a variety in the pond and
you have a little bit of each and so a person who is
unknowing might pic two tri colors or three tri colors for their pond but have all
Sanke's or all Showa's
right and their kinda missing out on really oh definitely the trio
the big trio artistically from from my perspective
and a lot of my Japanese breeders agree a the Showa is a very ah
sexy ah feminine but strong fish
it's very very with those big black wraps
yeah you have this very like showi
kind of kind of feeling hence the name since Showa right
where Taisho Sanke ah
we have these these very powerful
small black steps and you really really get to see
a more steps instead of band correct correct
which makes it a much more powerful fish so its a much more masculine
fish in my opinion absolutely so you need you need both you need balance
need fellows and the ladies in your pond right
right well that's good stuff well that was a great discussion on Koi you got
to learn about that big three varieties
the Gosanke variety you gonna have Kohaku Sanke and Showa in there
I want to send out a big thanks to Mystic Koi and Shawn McHenry
I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did I'm Eric Triplett the Pond Digger
thanks for watching