North Wales Koi Club Forum

To all in North Wales Koi Society have a great Xmas and a happy New Year. Don't forget to give those koi a few pellets on the big day, its gunna be warm enough

Ian & Sue

Must admit a cracking day out, some lovely koi and ponds seen. Also great hospitality by the folks from East Pennine, in fact there was more of them going round the ponds than us!!!!

Ian

Mitch,

Must admit they were great quality, to get so many that were in people's selection was pretty good. I would think people will be very pleased as these koi develop over the coming years.

Ian

Colin, Still plenty of room for the grow and show, visited Sekiguchi earlier today, still haven't got a clue how to chose a decent showa!!! Rich showed the Sekiguchi brother the photo's of the G&S, he was impressed with the growth they have put on. I think they'll be around 30cm when we see them...

Dave,

Believe it or not I ran up the first 3/4's, was panting by the top, ideal step arobics class i have to admit
Ian

Today was selection of tosai at Dainichi amongst other things, one of the things I’ve been looking forward to the most, a pond had been prepared for us containing 211 tosai. The pond was netted by the younger Dainichi brother and his assistant, he even nearly fell into the pond when the net pole sna...

Yes we did have alook in there Dave, he was netting a few asagi for Rich to look at but they had very little red on them so went back. Some crackers in there though#

Ian

Well today started with a 2.5 hour trip down South along the coast from Nagaoka to the breeder Nagoshi, formally known as Exclusive. IMG_1079.jpg For those in the club that remember, these were the Exclusive Kohaku we had as grow and shows, I think two years ago. Ken’s winning koi is shown below 200...

Today started with an early appointment to Hoshikin again, this time to view the number 1 koi he was willing to sell. For me this is what this trip is about, looking at koi after koi and beginning to understand the merits of all of them. Some being 10’s of pounds, others being thousands. This was th...

Mitch,

Like these, not for sale though!!!!