kin matsuba... who's got them...I need one
kin matsuba... who's got them...I need one
You might check out the Trader Fourm, Greg Stienstra listed one there.
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Do you like the red ones or yellow ones?
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Red and Show Quality like this one
Your actually looking for an aka matsuba. You might try Kodama. We purchased several from them last year for reasonable prices...
That one above is going to get too dark. You'll lose lots of the reticulation. It's an aka matsuba because it isn't metallic and it's orange.
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[QUOTE=Hirogoi;1573457]That one above is going to get too dark. You'll lose lots of the reticulation
really? How do you know
With the matsuba varieties you want to look for fish with a very tiny grey dote in each scale as tosai. The black will continue to fill in and it gets darker as they age. The second aka matsuba posted will probably be overpowered with the dark coloration and you'll lose a lot of the orange that really makes them pop. Gin matsuba happen to be my personal favorites.
So you'll probably get something like this which looks good an a gin matsuba cause of the metallic base, but not as good on an aka matsuba which has a mate base.
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As opposed to this.
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I have some Matsuba. Pond grade. You can see 2 of them fron 2007, larger one about 30 inches. Have about 8-10 more in the 10 inch size..both white and orange
bump.....any spotting of an AKA MATSUBA yet?
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If you can organise this from south africa we can talk lol but it is a kin matsuba not an aka matsuba
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You could always call up Genki Koi. They might have one. I know Garden Spot Koi had six or seven tosai at the Portland show last summer.
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