Soelistyo
Koi Lover
May 10, 2005, 10:30 AM
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everyone will have their own opinions so i won't try to change luckyl's. but for me chagoi is a thing of beauty. i've seen really nice chagois with perfectly netted scales and nicely proportioned bodies. they may never catch your eye the way a nice jumbo gosanke does, but they have their own function in the pond aesthetically. other ways to tame your fish? yes, probably there are, but trust me even if you fast them for 2-3 weeks, and they are so hungry that they will feed from your hand, there will always be an air of apprehension about them. without the easing presence of a chagoi in their pond, 99% of gosankes will continue to snatch at the food, and the moment you try to pat their heads they will zoom off toward the bottom of the pond at top speed, no matter how "well trained" they are or how hungry you've made them. In the meantime the gentle chagoi may be distracted by such disturbance, but give her 5 seconds and she will be back up again accepting the pellets from your fingers and allowing you to stroke her head and chin (or probably chins!) in exchange for the food.
really perfect jumbo chagois are probably just as rare as a champion quality jumbo gosanke, as most develop a short head, or a dropped belly, or uneven netting / scalation. but the second class of chagois are not that far off the top chagois. this is very different to gosanke, as the ones that cost reasonable prices are always as different from the top gosankes as the earth is to the sky (sorry to borrow a Hokkian phrase!).
personally, i think every pond should have one nice fat juicy chagoi. they bring something very different to the table than any other type of koi. more than a year ago, i lost an 82cm fawn colored chagoi that was extremely friendly to me and my wife. it was like losing a family friend. i spent hours trying to revive it and my usually cheerful wife was absolutely silent that whole day. i almost couldn't bring myself to look at my pond for the next week as i kept thinking of the chagoi. i blamed myself for not having acted earlier when i had noticed she had not come up to feed from my hand that morning before i left for work. until this day, my young nephew when he greets me asks the same question, where is the yellow chagoi? he misses her.
try developing that kind of relationship with your gosanke!!!
that chagoi wasn't cheap as i bought her when she was 74cm. but it wasn't the money. i've lost a nisai gosanke that cost a few times the price of her. but i didn't really bother all that much when i was told that the gosanke had passed. it's different with chagoi.
so to not like chagoi, i understand. everyone's taste is different.
but please don't call them ugly murky fish. you'd be insulting my late friend.
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