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Fat Albert (Hikari Moyo)
The first koi ever given to me. I was at Karen's pond during a club meeting, who has a beautiful collection of show koi. They were asking her who her favorite koi was, and commenting on how beautiful they all were. I saw a short, fat koi with a mutt goshiki pattern and commented that it was the best looking koi she had. She said "you know, it spawned and I have a smaller one", then asked me if I would like to have it and I said SURE!! Her kids went swimming in her pond, which is about 5k gallons, and after a while finally caught her.

The father is names Thomas, and karen says the other koi treat him like a big fat floating football, and push him around all the time.

Cow (Tancho Sanke)
This is my one real japanese show koi. My wife named her Cow, as in Jersey Cow -- all the shiro bekkos look like Jersey cows to her. The original owner flew to japan and purchased her for $400 when she was 4", along with some others. He had to move, decided that he was going to take a break from koi for a while and dumped them all at a local petshop, who gave him store credit which he didn't use before moving. The kid working at the shop said he couldn't tell what was good koi and what was bad, but had some japanese buyers coming up from Tucson that comming weekend. Those same buyers had come up 2 weeks before and had really irritated the kid, so he wanted me to get one of the show koi to keep it from them - because he knew I didn't show koi and only keep them as pets.

Well, at the time I got her, I really had no intentions of showing koi. Maybe it was owning her that turned me to the dark side.....

Kendra (Doitsu Kawarigoi)
This is a rescue koi, came from a rental house that had a small 150 gallon shallow pond and the birds were eating the other koi and goldfish, and the owners wanted to close out the pond for liability issues. All the fish in the pond were stunted growth. This one was rather dull grey looking at first, but I saw a hint of red and kept her for a while. She has really started to grow and I think is neat looking now.

Mandarin
From a spawn in 2008. I think she has awsome coloring, I love the dominant pattern instead of the small spots.

Jack (Hakari Moyo)
This is a koi I got from a rescue. He was in a tiny pond, was being starved, all the other koi in that pond were eaten by herons.

Spock (total mutt)
I was coming back from a pond club meeting with Nancy and we stopped at a petsmart. Of all people, it it totally illogical for me to purchase koi - but I spotted this one, and just couldn't leave without it. Had a very odd look to it, and wanted to raise it to see what would turn out like. This is a picture after some growth, she has a lot of blue coloring which I like.

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Shinzon
I was at a pet shop and saw this fish, but it was very sick looking, and so skinny I could see it's ribs. Barely had any life left, it would try to cling onto rocks and just sit there. I mentioned the fish to the manager, and asked if they had a hospital tank and could try to nurse it back to life, but they said realistically they would just wait for it to die and toss it. So I offered to heal it, and they gave me the fish. I gave it a shotgun spread of treatment in a tank with a couple of goldfish as buddies, and it recovered.

Houdini
Came from one of my spawns, started with a nice kohaku pattern and the orange completely dissapered.

Rosita
Came from a spawn of my fish.

Starburt
Came from a spawn of my fish.

Comet
He's got a very unbalanced pattern, but I like how the black spots are very bold and look like ink spots with well defined edges.

Banana
Was a baby from one of my spawns, kept as a tester fish to startup the big tank, and ended up staying around for a while.

Raia
Is a cross between my previous 2 largest fish: Madonna and Daisy. They both came from my first rescue that got me into helping koi.