I love this story about Koi. This is how I have always told the story and Koi lovers have looked at me like I am crazy.... Thank you for the validation. Coming from experts like these guys I now know !!!

@ThePondDigger

9 жыл бұрын

Michael Northway Maybe they were looking at you like you are crazy for other reasons!! BAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH

Big fan of your discussions. Probably my favorite on KZread. Always learning from you two.

Koi (鯉) and koi(恋）are two different words. The first word means Koi fish. The latter one means lover. They sound the same. lol~ Sean has a good sense of humor. Love his interview!

u both should make series about how to buy koi's in japan one episode one breeder/farm in japan, talk about what kind of kois they breed,and etc its gonna be awesome!

Carp in Japanese are called Koi (鯉) not Goi. When we combine two words into one, sometimes the sound transforms into the Nigori sound to make it easier to pronounce. So Nishiki（colorful like Japanese brocade) + Koi (carp) = NishikiGoi Btw, Koi as for love is 恋(pronounced also as Koi)

@ThePondDigger

8 жыл бұрын

+opensesame888 Thanks for participating.

Another amazing story, ending with yet another koi cliff hanger aka koi-hanger!!!

@ThePondDigger

9 жыл бұрын

Cazee Ponds Do you have a black koi in your pond yet?

@CazeePonds

9 жыл бұрын

ThePondDigger You know that I do lol. Oddly enough it was the off spring of a female doitsu soragoi and a male aka matsuba. The best part is that it was born in our pond.

very interesting thanks for sharing

@ThePondDigger

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Keep up the great work. Very informative. I always thought a black koi was bad luck. I will have to hunt for a all black now. That koi looked sweet all black.

@ThePondDigger

9 жыл бұрын

MO GAINS Glad we cleared that up for you!

Do you do jobs in Canada? I would LOVE a pond in my yard but I'm in Canada is that okay?

Very interesting!

@ThePondDigger

9 жыл бұрын

Will Eberli Thanks for watching!

I am Japanese. It was a very informative video. Thank you

I think it will be cool if you did a show on large goldfish

I have a crow what variety of koi would you mate it with

Where does he get those large low blue buckets?

3:01 I think there's a mixing of some similar sounding words here. It is confusing but to kill is "korosu" not "karass", the color black is "kuro", and the crow is "karasu". So the koi's name Karasu-goi straightly translates to Crow-koi. If there's a related word in front of Koi it becomes Goi, it has the same function as using "-", to tie two words as one word or as a name. So you see many other koi names ending in "goi" as well, but don't use "goi" to refer to a koi fish in general. As a guru/pro I think it's so so important to memorize well, pronounce it correctly and clearly on all syllables for maintaining credibility. Thanks for the history part and making informative videos! Interesting!

@ThePondDigger

8 жыл бұрын

+wutt Thank you for the comment.

I would love to learn how to raise and breed these beautiful fish give me an internship!

Love to see that tat

how much for one of those koi

i have three koi carps

koi are Amur carp (Cyprinus rubrofuscus) colour possibly comes from them being introduced into a different environment ie water chemistry , then line bred into what we see today

speechless .Black and white beautiful .A black one with a fancy tail would be great

@ThePondDigger

9 жыл бұрын

sissy murphy Such a cool story right????

@sissymurphy9620

9 жыл бұрын

ThePondDigger It sure is and I really understand what he means about signs from a darker fish .Because I look at my fish bert for his color .I see white slime on him I know something is off .What a beauty that one is .My babies are black to start with but they turn to gold or a whitish pink .I guess mixed breeds

What if the people who first found the nishikigoi were color blind. lol

Apa saja jenis koi hitam dan hitam metalik

can you eat them?

@ThePondDigger

9 жыл бұрын

Truth Man Yes

I was hoping there was a Killer Whale markings version .

@karlaug4450

Жыл бұрын

to see if it would be a bad idea or not to have or not one day by seeing if I like the idea or not after seeing it .

Actually the real history, Japanese never had these Nishigigoi until the 18th century after the Imperial court of China gifted the price of Japan their first colored koi fish. These gems were originated in china and till today not many people know the most beautiful koi fish is swimming in the province of Jiangsu,China. The Japanese made koi fishes famous. But if you wanna get the real deal, you should visit China where these carps was kept by emperors back in those days. Way more beautiful from the ones you see in Japan.

So which one of you guys is saying it correctly? lol

@ThePondDigger

9 жыл бұрын

Letters from a Psychopath Shawn is the guru!!!

We germans also use the term koi.

@ThePondDigger

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching.

hmmm, tattoos placed on private body spots "nevermind then!"...AND cuss words too?! kore wa nan desu ka? :-/ oooh ...I'll have to add that one to my cuss-you-out-in-japanese verbal arsenal! hehe just kidding (or am I???) ;-) Yeah, about Nishiki"koi" and Nishiki"goi"...another example I can think of that would also be like this is: Koromo and Goromo.

@ThePondDigger

8 жыл бұрын

+S Ann Thanks for your funny feedback!

@sann3119

8 жыл бұрын

+ThePondDigger ...well, I saw some of your other comments on here......& uh, so, I figured I'd leave you a few that actually had to do with what you're talking about in the videos.

BEER BEER RICE

Unfortunately this story is made up balony (as our American cousins say). Carp originated in China, they made their way to Japan by means of gifts to the Emporer Keiko. Recorded accounts of colour mutation breeding of Carp in China date back more more than a thousand years ago, along with coloured versions of the Prussian carp which became goldfish. They had previosuly been kept as food fish in China and still are, dating right back to the fith Century BC. The very first mention of carp which were not native to Japan was very much later, these fish were gifted to the Emperor Keiko from China. It's not clear if the fish were coloured or food fish.

korosu is to kill

@ThePondDigger

8 жыл бұрын

Good to know.

@bahamut8199

7 жыл бұрын

they said Karasu, which is crow.

@jabbarcks

7 жыл бұрын

hmm i know, i was just saying that whether you pronounce it Karas or Karasu it'll mean crow, as the word for to kill is Korosu

@bahamut8199

7 жыл бұрын

oh sorry, i wasn't sure if you knew because of the wording of the comment.