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20/05/10
ITS ON !
Finally today we have recieved conformation that
all the koi we have purchased in the last two
months will finally arrive tomorrow 21/05/10.
Please ring to view new koi as these koi can only
be seen when there are two members of staff on
the premises, we will try to get to get photos
asap so please bear with us. For another taste
of what is to come.....................
http://www.niigata-nishikigoi.com/node/798
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19/05/10
Hi, sorry we have been lazy with the news again
but things have been very busy for us in the last
week or so. Shipment is now planned for the 21st
of may (ash and strikes permitting), this will
include 37 jumbo tosai tateshita go sanke and
ginrin go sanke from sakai (yamamatsu), 45 jumbo
showa from sekiguchi, 35 jumbo tosai from Shintaro
(at last!), 8 nisai showa and gin rin showa, 10
nisai 40-50 cm tateshita from hosakai (showa,
tancho showa, kohaku and goshiki), 24 nisai from
oofuchi (including doitsu hariwake, sanke, kumonryu,
kujaku, ochiba around 30-40cm). Please check before
travelling as alot of these koi will NOT be quarantined
at the shop.
Also more changes are planned for
the websites so I can add more and more instead
of passing it all on to the website people, more
news, more pictures of koi and keeping everything
up to date quicker, these changes should take
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20/04/10
Arrived in the shop today to find
more emails with some great fish again picked
by our agent. First pic is from Tanaka, nisai
shusui, benigoi, gin rin asagi and doitsu sanke.
Although the photo doesnt show it the koi are
very high qualty as far as the breeder said one
shusui was all Japan quality. This young breeder
is winning more and more prizes at the shows in
Japan, its the same Tanaka that won first and
second in ginrin in size and a shusui came 2nd
in the same size (these three koi along with two
others that were exhibited in the nogyosai showa
will come into the shop from q/tine in the next
week or so) Then even better news, knowing that
our agent was going to sekiguchi we gave him various
budgets for various quality of jumbo tosai, we
now have 45 tateshita showa of all grades coming
to Gatwick koi in the next couple of weeks, somehow
in the confusion we have ended up with only one
photograph of several koi, these are not a sample
they are just one box that mark gardener put in
a bowl to photograph, although polaroids were
taken to ensure the correct fish are shipped,
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18/04/10
Next koi to be picked for
us are these non go sanke from oofuchi, doitsu
hariwake, kujaku, ochiba and many others. Looking
forward to seeing these in 24 degrees and saki
growth, no doubt that we can get some weight on
these while in q/tine! |
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16/04/10
We have had many requests for more of the tateshita
from Sakai Yamamatsu koi farm, last year we only
managed to get 10. This year we have purchased 37!
Every one who purchased them last year are very
pleased with growth and development so they were
a must for our agent to source some more. We are
informed that these are between 28cm and 40cm and
amoung the varietys, sanke, showa, gin rin showa
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12/04/10 New Koi
As the new season arrives we are now emptying the
quarantine facilty and bringing new fish into the
shop, we have some budget priced nisai all varietys,
Many many tosai sized nisai that have been held
over from last year giving small fish with good
body shape and that are very very healthy from £35!
The fish that were exhibited at the nogyosai show
at Japan by Tanaka, these will be in the shop in
the next week or two and ill re take the photos
and re measure the sizes. The gin rin showas recieved
first and second in gin rin, and one of the shusui
came second. Due to the very high price of flights
and the lack of better quality koi untill all the
tategoi have been selected we have decieded to ask
our agent to look for koi for us, first koi purchased
are ten tateshita from hosakai, these are all female
and around 40-45cm. Two yonsai shiros measuring
66 and 62cm and again both female with very nice
skin, since being moved to the shop Sumi has started
to develop and come through quiet nicely. On the
30th of April we finish the quarantine on the tosai,
amoung these are some very nice ochiba 18cm -22cm
and some 16cm and above go sanke and other varietys
from Miyatora, also 25 hand selected masaki shiros,
and some high quality tanchos from Tanaka. If there
is somthing you are looking for please call the
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10/11/09
Here are some more koi that we have bought from
niigata, two gin rin showa 35cm, 1st and second
place at the nogyosai show, two shusui of which
one got a second place, sand a kin showa, prices
will be £495-£1095. Nice 63cm sansai
ogon from Maradoh price around £1400. More
hi utsuri from shinoda £275, sorry they are
a little bit dearer but he had just harvested these
and picked them himself. |
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09/11/09
Due to the intereast of the blog we are keeping
it going as we are still buying and shipping koi
from the autumn harvest so feel free to have a
look. After looking at videos of koi we are not
happy with the video software we are using, this
should be sorted out in the next few weeks.
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02/11/09 Apology....................
Hi All, as most of you know I priced up all the
koi in Japan and had them on the website virtually
before I left. As the weekend was very busy I had
not had time to look through all the shipping documents
and reciepts, as we are now shipping through different
agents I didnt realise how much cheaper the frieght
rate was, and also what a favourable yen rate they
had given me (bearing in mind I changed money at
heathrow at 130 yen to the pound), when checking
through the prices this morning I realised what
a BIG differance it will make on all of the koi
(except around 6 which I had made mistakes on so
they wont be changed), I have now spent the afternoon
repricing all koi on the website and the new prices
should appear in the next 24 hours, (I believe the
nisai are already up). To all those who have bought
/ reserved koi over the weekend you will be getting
the new price, for those who paid in full you will
get a credit note or refund the differance, to the
others your balance will be less! If it was only
a few pounds difference I wouldnt have worried,
but on some fish it was hundreds of pounds so if
you have looked at the koi, then have another look
you may be pleasantly surprised. Also we are starting
to measure the koi and have found we have under
estimated the size of alot of the koi, one sanke
advertised at 55cm was nearer 60, so we will be
remesuring all koi tommorrow. Sorry about all the
confusion, please bear with us. ps
...I know my pics are still not right, the flash
gun I took to Japan was faulty and could not be
used, thanks ..................
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14/10/09
Blimey, look what you could have one won!!!!!!!
An 87cm Kogani Ochiba! Our agent sent us this last
night but someone in Europe beat us to it, would
certainly look nice in the main pond or for someone
looking for jumbo awards at shows next year, by
the way only 5 years old. Still im sure theres more
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12/10/09
Just three days to go and i have to say I just
cant contain myself any longer, and to add to
my misery the agent is starting to send me pictures
of koi that are available already, so tease you
guys I thought id post them on here to wet some
appitites.............
55-60cm, yonsai, shusui, ogon, asagi and gin rin
tancho. Then a very nice sansai sanke from yagenji,
the message from the brothers is that this has
an excellant body and skin quality and is show
quality, if its still there friday then it may
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4/10/10
Our website should now be updated and as you can
see we are now nearly out of koi, there are around
50 tosai around 16-18cm which are the last of
last years tosai and are now priced up at £20,
also a few 12-14" koi left which are a mixture
of nisai and jumbo tosai left from this season
priced at £85.00.In the main pond a handfull
of better quality jumbo tosai tategoi from Maradoh
and Sekiguchi also now being offered at very good
prices.
27/09/09
Our Autumn trip is now booked and we leave on
the 15th of october, if any one is intereasted
in joining us please call the shop or email us,
this trip will be extra special as we have a chance
to visit the famous matsunoske auction to purchase
larger high quality koi. One of the first jobs
when we arrive is to visit the dealers with our
koi that have been grown on, if you like any of
the koi on the koi in japan page , please email
me after 16th and I will have new photos and sizes.
We will also be offering koi for sale while im
in Japan at special prices.
18/09/09
Thank you to everybody who came to our sale weekend
, the whole weekend was a great sucess leaving
us without many koi in the shop. Sorry for the
delay for those ordering the small tower showers
but they are now back in stock and we are now
taking orders again. If you are still looking
for that special koi we are still taking orders
for our autumn trip to niigata.
11/09/09
Well here we are one week before leaving for Niigata,
and quiet frankly im climbing the walls and driving
poor old Sue insane. This is not helped by our
agent who is already sending pictures of koi that
he has seen as the nisai and sansai harvests are
already well under way. Im particularly drawn
to a sansai Sankai around 57cm which looks very
nice on the picture, unfortunatly tonight im starting
up my new laptop and the pic is on the other one
at the shop so ill try and get this on the news
tommorrow ....................Gary |
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As we move towards the end of the season
we have decieded to have a special weekend sale
of koi on the 12th and 13th of september.
All koi will be for
sale at half the price advertised on the internet,
this will be on the saturday and the sunday of
this weekend only, (so no ringing before hand
to reserve the koi) and it will include koi in
the main pond and even the ones released out of
quarantine in August.
All koi will have
been through our six week quarantine so all koi
can be collected on the day, for those still building
it may be possible to hold fish for a little time.
Also to coincide
with this, we will be launching our range of shower
towers, these come in the traditional stacking
"tray" type arrangement, or the circuler
tower model (photos to follow). As an added bonus
we will be offering special launch prices, so
if your looking for additional filtration this
alone will be worth popping over to have a look
at.
Any enquires please
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Shower towers
Designed to take large flows as showers should do!
Lids and grids included, media extra.
Roto 1 £135 |
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28/08/09
Japan Trip
We are now offering places on our trip to Japan
in October for this years harvest. Prices start
from £1600 for everything except the koi
(including food and drink). We will be staying
in the Niigata region and will be visiting over
40-50 breeders, along with the chance to see a
Japanese koi show and purchase koi and even leave
them to develop with the breeder, the choice is
yours! Feel free to contcat Gary about the trip
or if you have any requirements that we can look
out for you if you cannot make the trip your self.
25/08/09
BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND
This weekend we are open every day, there are
many new koi arriving from the q/tine every day.
30 TANCHO, GIN RIN TANCHO, GOSHIKI TANCHO AND
GIN RIN GOSHIKI TANCHO from tanaka, sizes range
from 17cm - 22cm. Also many jumbo tosai showa
from sekiguchi up to 40cm, also tosai gin rin
showa from sakai yamamatsu, around 25cm -30 cm.
Some nice smaller sanke and gin rin sanke from
yamamatsu. Many new koi to see and special offers
on many dry goods and pond set ups. Few pics of
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14/08/09
Final touches are now being added to our tower
shower range of high flow filters. There will
be three in the range with many differant exit
styles in the range. pics and prices to follow
in the next week or two.
31st July
All tateshita jumbo tosai from yamamatsu are all
out of q/tine and in the shop, but most of them
are sold, also sekiguchi tategoi jumbo tosai showa
are now in the shop, pictures to follow. Over
200 hand selected tosai of too many varietys to
mention have also finished q/tine and are for
sale. This week we have 30 nisai from yamatsu
(matsunoske) finishing q/tine, details to follow.
Towards the end of August we will have 30 tancho
finishing q/tine, this include tancho, gin rin
tancho, goshiki tancho and gin rin goshiki tancho.
They are 16-20cm and all one year old. As well
as this we have 5 certificated tosai showa tategoi
from maradoh, again details to follow. With another
16 jumbo tosai from sekiguchi there will be new
fish coming in to the shop from quarantine nearly
every week in August.
09/07/09
Another pond in the q/tine is now finished and
ready for koi, and another one just needs the
roof and that will be ready. The sakai and segiguchi
tateshita and tategoi are now going up through
thier last heat and will be in the shop around
the 25th july, sorry for the delay but our chillers
have struggled in this heat slowing down the quarantine
process, the 150 selected tosai chagoi and ogons
in the seperate q/tine in the shop will be chilled
down and returned to 24 by this weekend making
them available around the 25th july. Next week
we will be chilling down and warming the sakai
yamamatsu nisai and another 100 selected tosai
making them available at the end of August.
SHIPMENT TONIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our last shipment of the year arrives tonight,
this contains many good grade koi though to tategoi.
Koi include five Maradoh tategoi jumbo tosai showa
that all come with certificates, sixteen jumbo
tosai showa from sekiguchi, thirty jumbo tosai
sanke from sakai yamamatsu (some gin rin!), eight
jumbo tosai gin rin showa from sakai yamamatsu,
and thirty tancho, gin rin tancho, tancho goshiki
and gin rin tancho goshiki from Tanaka. Also 50cm
nisai kohaku, gin rin kohaku and showa, jumbo
tosai shusui and ochiba and gin rin ochiba, and
selected nisai from marasaka and miyatora . I'll
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01/07/09
Quarantine facility is well on the way to completion,
two done two to go. Koi at the facility are looking
well and looking forward to them coming to the shop.
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14/06/09
After talking to some dealers that do not have the
facility to heat ramp, we are now offering the chance
to hand select heat ramped koi from our facility
. This will be by appointment only, and can be out
of hours if needed, please ring for details ..............gary |
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12/06/09
I know, I know, I havnt been keeing the news up
to date, I apologise but we have been very very
busy, all is on schedule for the completeion of
the new off site quarantine. New koi are arriving
every two to three weeks so we are even having
trouble keeping the koi for sale page up to date,
please feel free to ring us with anything you
are looking for. Around the end of june the tategoi
sekiguschi and sakai tateshita will be out of
quarantine, also we have nisai sakai (niigata)
tateshita arrived and in quarantine, and have
to say we are even more impressed with these,
they are around 30-40cm, tancho, tancho sanke,
tancho showa, showa, sanke and kohaku.
This week we have had some incredible
tosai in, amazing variety and all hand picked,
maradoh kohaku tosai, kumonryu from masaki, metalics
from marasaka, doistu and metalics from kase,
and some more jumbo tosai from sekiguchi. Also
not hand picked but very nice quality from takahashi,
many varietys and very resonable prices, so much
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15/05/09
Koi arrived safely and have settled down very well.
If you are intereasted in any of the tateshita or
tategoi then please call before travelling as they
are held at our new quarantine facilty away from
the shop. I have to say i am very pleased with all
the koi and cant wait to get them all through quarantine
and into the shop. All of the nisai that are under
£200 are in the seperate quarantine at the
shop but can still be viewed and purchased but not
taken untill quarantine has finished.
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12/05/09
With koi sales going so well it
has been decieded that we need more quarantine
ponds, so with this in mind it has been decieded
to build more ponds away from the shop. Two are
now finished and glassed but rain has stopped
play with othe other two, all this will help us
to be one of the leading dealers with healthy
quarantined koi. When the fish house is complete
ill put some pics up here.
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12/05/09
Koi selected for us in Japan will be arriving
on thursday 14th May. There are now many more
koi than just that on the news pages including
a whole box of ochiba and gin rin ochiba jumbo
tosai. We are really pleased with the fish that
have been picked for us, it is always a gamble
when buying koi like this but with the economy
as it is and the pound still weak it was a decision
we had to make not to go to Japan ourselves. Also
for the last four weeks the shop has been busier
than ever so it was the right thing to do, we
would like to thank people for thier support and
sorry if we have been very busy when you came
in and no coffee was made (or if i was a bit stressed
)!!!!!!!!!!!!
We look forward to a great summer
and hope to see you in the shop or at some of
the shows we may visit. We would also like to
thank all those who contacted us about the special
offer on the sekiguchi jumbo showa, the koi are
all sold out and im sorry if you missed out, next
time there will be a limit on one koi per person
so more people get a chance to purchase.
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1/5/09
As our agent is selecting such good koi we have
decieded to let him carry on and not go to niigata
for a while longer. Please look at our special
offers page for an exciting opportunity to buy
some sekiguchi tateshita tosai, these with all
the others will arrive on the 13th may, please
ring for details. More koi selected for us include
these 5 chogaro platinum ogons all around 40cm,
four very high grade nisai tateshita nisai from
seitaro.
We have also had 60 nisai for those
with lower budgets as well, the photos will go
on the website on arrival, varietys include, chagoi,
shsui, ochiba, gin rin ochiba, skaura ogon, tancgo
goshiki, kohaku, kujauku and many many more. |
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27/04/09 HAPPY DAYS!!!!!
After people asking for much higher quality tosai
and jumbo tosai, our agent has visited sakai (niigata),
and sekiguchi. Last year we had sekiguchi jumbo
tosai and were very impressed, this year we asked
for much higher quality and were very surprised
to be offered GENUINE TATEGOI, only one box and
much more money than we wanted to spend but could
not turn the offer down. Also tateshita from sakai
from 30-40cm, we have been told by the breeders
that all koi are female, i have to say i am one
very happy koi dealer!!!!! Individual pictures
are the sakai tateshita, and the photo of 8 IN
ONE BOWL ARE are the tategoi from sekiguchi. |
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26/04/09
At the moment our agent is travelling around Niigata
selecting koi for us, people seem never to tyre
of beni kumonryu so we have asked him to find some,
already we have had a whole box selected with another
one with goshiki , tancho and budo goromo, also
a box of budo goromo. While looking for small nisai
chagoi he found some jumbo ones uo to 50cm, Hirasawa
has said if looked after right they will go through
67-70cm in one year, so just couldnt resist them!
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20th March 2009
Welcome to our new look web site.
With many more products than ever we hope to offer
one of the best dry good services in the country.
Most products are on the shelf so if visiting
you should find all you need, some larger products
like filters may be special orders and take 48
hours. All shipping is free and next day delivery
if your order is over £35.00.
At the moment due to the weak state
of the pound we are subject to a lot of price
fluctuation so we will always try to honour the
prices on our web site but please bare with us
if things change as we are in very trying times
as most of you will know.
We are looking to go to Japan in April / May,
so if you want to join us or if there is anything
you are looking for then please feel free to contact
us. Untill then we have had two small shipments
of koi which are now in quarantine and half of
these are in the shop and can be viewed now. As
usual these can be purchased but left with us
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