Torazo Spawning - new Kohaku oyagoi

As detailed yesterday http://www.niigata-nishikigoi.com/node/410 Friday night/Saturday morning would hopefully see Torazo's new Kohaku oyagoi spawn.

I arrived at 1am, a purely speculative time, to see what if anything was happening.  Inside the greenhouse Torazo's staff was keeping watch. 

Unbelievably, within 2 minutes of me walking in the Koi house the 2 Kohaku showed the first sign of proper spawning activity with the female being encouraged to release some eggs.

When Tsuyoshi san first showed me the new Oyagoi a few weeks ago http://www.niigata-nishikigoi.com/node/365 he had told me that he was worried about it because of her size and the fact she'd never spawned before.  I've got to say, she looked big in the spawning net, when she was in a bowl she was titanic.  The good news is that stage 1 of the spawning completed successfully, now it's fingers crossed for a good fertilisation and hatch rate.  Only time will tell, thereafter, whether the quality of the offspring lives up to that of the oyagoi.

The full story will be on a 2 part video available exclusively for NTV 2009 subscribers.

Part 1, which runs for 8mins 27secs, is available for download now from http://www.nishikigoi.tv/2009/index.html

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