Well in less than a week we will be back in Niigata! This will be our third trip of 2018, and we never get tired of going. Over 60 trips to Japan now and the excitement never stops! We have a very busy trip coming up, along with Koitrips.com we have a booked-up trip… […]
Japan Buying trip – October 2018 – Understanding. We come around to yet another Harvest season in Japan. I want to take this time to explain to people how things work over there and why we actually go. The mountains of Japan are home to A LOT of Koi breeders and Koi dealers. I would […]
In Japan now the area will be buzzing with activity. The Koi have all been spawned and the fry are now out in the fry ponds growing. Its quite an amazing thing to get your head around about how it all works. Lets take Shintaro Koi Farm for example. They have bred around 7 sets […]
When I first started visiting the Niigata mountains in 1992, it always felt like a magic place. It was a very personal industry, buying Koi seemed like a secondary purpose of actually being there. Try and imagine small villages and pretty much all of them had something to do with Nishikigoi. Breeding or just […]
Koi and their costs. I have been reading recently online about Dealers and the money they charge for their Koi. It’s always been a subject of interest to many people. Most people think Koi Dealers are millionaires because we bring in and sell expensive Koi. I wish this was the case. I remember in […]
Many people now know who Quality Nishikigoi are. We are one of the leading Koi dealer/Koi importer in the UK. You know we visit Japan 3 times a year looking for stock for our facility in Warrington where we have 20,000 gallons of retail water space plus the full range of dry goods for all […]
Winter tips and do’s and dont’s. Winter is sometimes a confusing time for Koi keepers, it is full of different opinions and what to do and what not to do. It seems everywhere you go there is somebody saying something else…its hard. I will attempt to give the best advice based on the clients […]
Yesterday (5/01/2017) We shipped 4 very special Koi over to South Africa. Shipping Koi is something we do pretty often having clients all over the world. This was a little bit different as we shipped a beautiful 81cm Kohaku that we sold on our last buying trip to Japan. She is beautiful. Shipping Koi like […]
So on Thursday 16/12/2016, 1 week after we put in the initial stitches, it was time for the first update on the Koi. We were greeted with excellent news. The Kohaku’s fin had already healed around 1cm, this was amazing. The skin had joined at the top of the tail to start to bond together […]
There is always a danger when shipping Koi from Japan, or from anywhere. We pride ourselves in a zero percent loss record which is still zero! However this shipment we did have an issue. A Nisai Kohaku from Torazo came in with a badly damaged tail. I noticed the evening they arrived as I lifted […]