Postby kdh » February 7th, 2018, 8:16 pm
I remember some years ago I purchased an expensive tosai from Russ that was in one of his grow outs. He had a 3 step sanke tosai that I purchased on a whim as I figured if I was going to make the trip to the grow out. I might as well come back with two tosai. The sanke only had a couple of black scales on the last step. I gave it away to a friend and told her not to get rid of it as more sumi would probably come. the first year she had it, nothing. She was going to move the koi but I pleaded with her to keep it. she did and over the next couple of years the koi ended up with quite a bit of sumi and looked good. She had moved to Washington and informed me the koi even improved some more and she was quite excited about him. I asked her to send a pic and she said she would in the spring. Unfortunately it was there first winter in Washington and she was not prepared. She lost the koi as well as a few others. Kinda ticked me off as I wanted to see the koi sumi develop. Also I had warned her about winterizing her new pond but she chose not to.