Editing this into a running update thread, rather than new posts each year-
2021 selections
Murata Kohaku
INC showa
Matsue maruten sanke
tosai selections from PSKoi for 2020:
Teradomari ginrin tancho
10/2020
Sekiguchi showa
Taniguchi tancho sanke
10/2020 update
Tosai picks from 2019
Omosako Shiro
pskoi sale photo
Oct 10 photo 15"
10/2020
Murata Kohaku
PSKoi photos
Oct update, first one is 18" second is 17"
10/2020 updates
Taniguchi Showa
Oct 2019 17.5"
10/2020 update
Minuma showa - tiny
Oct 2019 14.5"
10/2020 update
First up Tamaura Sanke (via PSKoi tosai spring
2017), one of my favorite fish in the pond. Beni looks a little funky mid-dorsal. Very shy fish until this year so was a slow grower.
bottom left (6")
now (15-16")
2019 20" slow grower
second up, Omosako Shiro Utsuri (my son's pick for the pirate eye patch as tosai middle below) via PSKoi tosai spring 2017, has jet ink sumi ( a bit too much for me, but I like it)
last fall
now
10/2020 update
Next up a pair of Dainichi gin rin kohaku (via Kodama) they have grown slow but the beni on Dainichi has held well on all for 4 koi in my pond
Tosai "B"
now
2019 26"
10/2020 update when seining to rehome a few
Next - free tosai from PSKoi 2017- Chogoro platinum (another son's koi). I almost killed this koi bowling today. It shot to the moon when it saw the net and landed above the pond on top of the elevated net (I was working underneath so no clue how that happened). Will have to watch it, but that is why the fins are red. This is by far the shyest fish in the pond, I've never seen it eating
now
2019 -not bowled seine net escape artist
10/2020 probably next on rehome list (small), but son attached to it
Yamabuki (via Kodama study tosai 2017) This thing growing like heck. It was 7" as tosai
now 23":
2019 not bowled- still the pig too large to bowl
10/2020 update (over 30")
Tancho Showa from Kobayashi via PSKoi tosai 2016:
two tosai pics weeks apart???
2017 photos
2018 photo
2019 pretty still, but looks like on the way out now
10/2020 update
Lastly one of my favorites escaped the sein multiple times and I didn't realize it until looking at the phone :
Kindai showa from Kobayashi
10/2020 Kobayashi showa update
2019 not bowled too large but same quality sumi still not up, should rehome this one
this is the first koi in the pond- bought online from unknown dealer as Dainichi showa $50 tosai in 2014; now doesn't fir in the 30" bowl (bottom is narrower).Another that lost a scale being bowled
tosai 2014 (left koi)
now 2018
2019 - it is over 32" no way to bowl her
I decided not to bowl the right koi above, it too wouldn't fit in the bowl and looks unchanged except size (no sumi up)
2019 - this second show not pictured recently passed with tumor near gill plate; thought it was gaining girth.
10/2020 update 34"
rehomed section: Now residing in the farm pond (150'x150'x10')
Dainichi ginrin kohaku
tosai 8/2017
now
2019- this is my football koi, form not great 21"
Taniguchi sanke
Kobayashi Shiro Utsuri (via PSKoi tosai 2016) My kobayashi koi are growing relatively slow. Not sure about this one??? It stresses bad in the bowl.
top tosai in photo:
now
2019 was going to rehome, but kept another season. Should have rehomed.
INC sanke via PSKoi (tosai 2017) grew well but had infection/now deformity with the nostril. Beni is broken. This seems like one of two obvious fails.
second tosai from bottom
2019 bled during bowling; beni actually consolidated was going to rehome, but put back in pond due to bleeding and beni ~27 in
Tamaura Showa via PSKoi (tosai 2017) this one seems like another fail beni is breaking and sumi shows no signs of rising
tosai (large koi pointing left)
now: