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wayneb
Posts: 481
Join date: 2007-12-08
Age: 31
Location: Bellville, Cape Town
 |  Subject: Dainichi Kohaku Tosai  Wed Jul 30, 2008 8:05 pm | |
|  Bought from - Cape Koi Aquarium Year bought - March 2008 Bloodline - Dainichi Price Paid - R 4000 Length when purhcased - 24cm Guaranteed to be female, will have to see. |
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verynewtokoi
Posts: 36
Join date: 2008-05-05
| | Subject: Re: Dainichi Kohaku Tosai Thu Jul 31, 2008 9:09 am | |
| I like the patern  |
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Jaco
Posts: 350
Join date: 2008-02-16
Location: Odendaalsrus Free State
| | Subject: Re: Dainichi Kohaku Tosai Thu Jul 31, 2008 11:12 am | |
| Nice pattern, but I wont have the guts to pay so much for such a small fish. Looking forward on her development.
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wayneb
Posts: 481
Join date: 2007-12-08
Age: 31
Location: Bellville, Cape Town
| | Subject: Re: Dainichi Kohaku Tosai Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:57 pm | |
| No guts no glory  Obviously paid for the name of the bloodline and for the nice pattern. I'm taking a chance but i can't afford to buy bigger koi from the same bloodline so i had to go for tosai. |
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wayneb
Posts: 481
Join date: 2007-12-08
Age: 31
Location: Bellville, Cape Town
| | Subject: Re: Dainichi Kohaku Tosai Mon Aug 11, 2008 8:47 pm | |
| This kohaku took 1st place for kohaku in size 2 and also took the Tategoi Award over all varieties in Size 2. |
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wayneb
Posts: 481
Join date: 2007-12-08
Age: 31
Location: Bellville, Cape Town
| | Subject: Re: Dainichi Kohaku Tosai Mon Aug 11, 2008 8:51 pm | |
| Unfortunatly i can't edit my message but i just wanted to mention that the show was in the western cape. |
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wayneb
Posts: 481
Join date: 2007-12-08
Age: 31
Location: Bellville, Cape Town
| | Subject: Re: Dainichi Kohaku Tosai Wed Mar 18, 2009 11:40 am | |
| I thought that i will just give everyone an update on my little dainichi.  She is now 48cm and growing very well. You can see from the colouring on the scales that she streched quite a bit this summer. She has not put any bulk on yet but that is consistant with the Dainichi bloodline which take 15 years to reach its full potential. That is according to the Koi 1 book. Im taking her to the george show, will have to see what she does. |
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sas
Posts: 360
Join date: 2007-08-01
| | Subject: Re: Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:02 pm | |
| Hi Wayneb, Looks like you didn't feed her any colour enhancer this summer in oreder to have better growth rate. |
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wayneb
Posts: 481
Join date: 2007-12-08
Age: 31
Location: Bellville, Cape Town
| | Subject: Re: Dainichi Kohaku Tosai Wed Mar 18, 2009 2:50 pm | |
| Hi SAS You are correct, she wont get any coulour enhancer food until she's about 4 years old. I dont want to bring the colour out to early. All she got this summer was Aqua Master Growth and blood worms. Wayne |
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sas
Posts: 360
Join date: 2007-08-01
| | Subject: Re: Dainichi Kohaku Tosai Wed Mar 18, 2009 3:24 pm | |
| | wayneb wrote: | Hi SAS
You are correct, she wont get any coulour enhancer food until she's about 4 years old. I dont want to bring the colour out to early. All she got this summer was Aqua Master Growth and blood worms.
Wayne |
Hi Wayne,
If you can wait until she is 4 years old before feeding any color enhancer, i think the natural color will show. And if the hi do develop naturally to become more intense, my suggestion is not to give her any color enhancer. Because at 4 year old, the koi haven't reach her maximum body length yet.
By the way, do you stop feeding completely during winter?
regards,
SAS |
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wayneb
Posts: 481
Join date: 2007-12-08
Age: 31
Location: Bellville, Cape Town
| | Subject: Re: Dainichi Kohaku Tosai Wed Mar 18, 2009 3:33 pm | |
| Hi SAS No i havent stopped feeding in the past. I use to just swap over to a mixture of growth and weatgerm and decrease the amounts they get but this year im planning to stop feeding for the month of July. Wayne |
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Admin
Admin
Posts: 1283
Join date: 2007-07-25
Location: Cape Town
| | Subject: Re: Dainichi Kohaku Tosai Wed Mar 18, 2009 3:35 pm | |
| Baie nice, hou van hom. Goed gebalanseerd en puik shiroji en gaan 'n absolute wenner wees na 'n paar jaar. Well done op die groei. |
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sas
Posts: 360
Join date: 2007-08-01
| | Subject: Re: Dainichi Kohaku Tosai Wed Mar 18, 2009 10:27 pm | |
| | wayneb wrote: | Hi SAS
No i havent stopped feeding in the past. I use to just swap over to a mixture of growth and weatgerm and decrease the amounts they get but this year im planning to stop feeding for the month of July.
Wayne |
It's good to stop feeding during winter, but just be careful what you feed you koi after the "Stopped feeding period". Because if you feed them something which is difficult to digest, they will die for sure.
Also, feeding a lot doesn't mean they will grow (I mean grow longer in length). I even stop feeding them one day each week in summer.
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wayneb
Posts: 481
Join date: 2007-12-08
Age: 31
Location: Bellville, Cape Town
| | Subject: Re: Dainichi Kohaku Tosai Thu Jun 04, 2009 12:22 pm | |
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Admin
Admin
Posts: 1283
Join date: 2007-07-25
Location: Cape Town
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