How often are larger (30+) koi available for sale?
Let's just say I'm impatient to grow one out for the 5++ years that would take... And I might be willing to pay for immediate gratification.
Before you read on - if you're the argumentative type - I'm not interested in debating the merits of developing a koi on from a a tosai or nisai, etc. I've got plenty of those and I'm all for that too. So let's not go there.
My guess is that the larger ones that are held by breeders are typically kept because they either have serious show potential or are future oyagoi so the price would be astronomically higher. But I dont want to assume anything, and while the former may be true, there's a market for everything. I'm not at all trying to buy the next GC but rather a good quality but very large koi. Occasionally I've seen kodama offer in the 26 inch range but often these are deformed etc (which is out of the question) and their quality is often below what I'd want.
I'm going to reach out to a couple dealers, but just wondering if anyone else had gone down this road.