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      Excellent! Looks like they are off to a great start! Are these from some of the oyagoi in your post #81? You mentioned having two spawns. Is the other one showa?

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      Hi Matt! Yes on the Oyagoi. The female Kohaku I used is the big girl at the bottom of group in post #81 and yes I also have a pond of Showa babies that I will post some photos of soon. The female Showa is at the top of photo in post #81.

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      Here are a few pictures of first cull on my Showa fry. I pulled this pond solo and didn't do a great job on photos in all the calamity. I have a question for all of you. The Kohaku fry in a Showa spawn. Keep or not? Will they be suspect to develop sumi (shimmies). Would you buy a Kohaku from a Showa Spawn. I think my Showa spawn may have produced better Kohaku than my Kohaku spawn. In the end I only kept a few of the Kohaku and you can see one in the pictures. Ooops some pictures got posted more than once.... sorry.

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      Here are some photos of a pull I did on a pond with some flock spawn from 2019.

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      Quote Originally Posted by FRK View Post
      Here are some photos of a pull I did on a pond with some flock spawn from 2019.
      Very good size for a year and a half.

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      Quote Originally Posted by FRK View Post
      ... The Kohaku fry in a Showa spawn. Keep or not? Will they be suspect to develop sumi (shimmies). Would you buy a Kohaku from a Showa Spawn. ...
      I usually cull most of the light colored fry from showa spawns early to give the dark ones with better odds of turning out good more of the space and food. But after that if any I've missed look nice, I'll keep em. I still have a 2.5 year old kohaku and a couple of muji from my 2018 showa spawn. They are nothing special, but I have not seen any sumi so far.

      I also have a 5.5 year old kohaku from a showa spawn. It has a small black spot that you can see it under the red near the top just behind the head in post 163 ...
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      It was visible by the first fall in post 117. Since the koi was a tobi and large, the spot was easier to see at that age.
      https://www.koiphen.com/forums/showt...highlight=2015

      Just me, but I figure that buying most young koi is a risk anyway for a variety of reasons. And I think most kohaku can develop shimmies. So if it looked like I wanted and was reasonably priced, I would probably buy it.

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      I have been working on the final sorting for this season. All my keepers have been moved to the large grow pond for the remainder of winter and will probably be left alone through next summer. Here are some pictures from the Kohaku. The oyagoi are Purdin bloodlines. Female "Shimanae, The boys Dianichi (Rykidozan) and Sakai
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      Great results cant wait for spawn 2021 I hope you get more eggs fertilized next year. I hope my 10 koi will spawn next year would love a few showa fry myself to play with...
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      You have some promising ones there but to make thing's easier during culling any kohaku without some sorta beni pattern on the head you can cull, nice work so far

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      Very nice!

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      I don't know much about kohaku selection, but it seems you have some good possibilities in this batch. Thanks for posting them.

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      I want it


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      First of all thank you to those that have replied above, very much appreciated. Thank you Orlando for the culling tip I respect your experience and expertise, please keep it coming. Today I would like to post a quick update. After pulling the seine three times I began pumping the nursery pond dry. I plan to leave my nursery ponds dry for the winter. I believe it allows nature (oxygen, sunlight and freezing) to clean the mud of biodegradable elements. Anyway in the mud puddle at the bottom there were maybe 10 small koi. I netted the patterned ones before it got to muddy to find any more for the day. Went out this morning and the last of the koi that were left overnight were gone. I believe they were all benni goi and shiro muji no patern. A couple of photos below to explain what happened to them. Then here are photos of three that I did rescue. And WOW!!! two of them may be the best of the bunch.

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      I think number 2 has the best chance.
      The other 2 I think you will see the hi fade over time


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      Wow nice ones!

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      Very beautiful babies! You should be proud, you did a great job!

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      Ok... I have also worked on sorting my Showa. First let me say from my first serious attempt at selecting.... when you add a third parameter (Sumi) it gets way more difficult. Anyway here are a few photos of my product this year. P.S. Again using Purdin bloodlines. Female Purdin Ueano. Male Purdin Yamaguchi.

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      Thank you Hope J. You made my heart happy!

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      Those Showa are looking really nice. Great work


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      Outstanding! The Showa look really nice, as do the Kohaku. Very, very nice. BTW, the mud pond is fantastic - seems like quite a nice operation.

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