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By Chai Taevanitcharoen How to select tosai for Male or Female No one can select tosai for male or female 100% of the time. Some tosai will show the characteristic of male or female 100% but some won’t, and some may be neutral fish. As your knowledge improves you will have better percentage of selecting…

  Koi Health By Alan Stein, KHA Summer’s here and that means growing season.  This is the prime time to feed often for maximum growth.  It is also time to watch your water quality. To grow large Koi we feed high protein food often to provide the amino acids needed for growth.  The Koi produce ammonia which…

How to Select Tategoi Asagi By Chai Taevanitcharoen Guidelines for Selecting Tategoi Narumi Asagi Tosai: 1. Has to be female. A male will get too dark and the head will turn yellow and/or cloudy  as it grows older. Select the lightestblue possible, without dark net-like scales. There is a chance it will be female and it…

BUYING BABY KOI-Part 1 By: Chai Taevanitcharoen Before we learn about quality, body conformation, and the pattern of the fish, I think we should learn to understand the most important part of the fish, body deformities. Deformities affect excellent fish, good fish, mediocre fish, and fish of no value. Some deformities make a fish not…

BABY KOI PART 2 How to Increase Your Knowledge of Koi By: Chai Taevanitcharoen 1) Get knowledge from books or magazines. Try magazines such as Rinko or Koi USA. If you are a member of the Z.N.A. Koi Club, Nichirin is a great resource. For beginners, try the Manual to Nishikigoi, by Dr. Kuroki.  After…

  Baby Koi- Part 3 – Quality vs. Bloodline and Brand name BY: Chai Taevanitcharoen Decisions, decisions, decisions.  Are you going to buy that fish that you’ve been staring at for the past half-hour, or not?  Suddenly, a dealer walks by and says, “This koi was bred by Dainichi, Sakai, Ogata, etc.” Your curious eyes turn…

  Baby Koi- Part 4: Quality By: Chai Taevanitcharoen When purchasing anything, you look for certain qualities. When purchasing real estate, it’s LOCATION, LOCATION, and LOCATION!  When purchasing koi, it’s QUALITY, QUALITY, QUALITY, and QUALITY; I like to call them the four Q’s! During “koi-talk”, the word “quality” is always the main topic. Often, people…