Our 14^th annual imported fish sale & Spring Seminars will be held on March 29-30, 2008. Our event will be held at Water Garden Gems which is located a few miles east of San Antonio, Texas on the northside access road of IH-10 between exits 593 and 595. Mr. Megumi Yoshida a 3rd generation koi dealer/breeder from Tokyo will be accompanied by Mr Mamoru Nagasaki a 2nd generation koi breeder from Toyoto City, Japan. Yohei Koi Farms is already famous for breeding unique top quality Hybrid Gosanke, Yambuki, and Goshiki. Yohei Hybrid koi are highly sought after and have won top awards in shows all over Japan.

Megumi and Mamoru will be giving informative live hands on seminars about selecting koi and breeding koi. A key topic will be how to select baby koi based on overall quality and recognizable clues as to future development. Emphasis wwill be on body structure and hi quality. Mamoru will also discuss the development of the new bloodline of “hybrid” koi with the foundation being a unique white wild born carp that grew to over 39 inches.  

"Monster" was the name given to the wild born Shiro Magoi                                                     female crossed to Kohaku males that have led to Yohei Hybrid Koi

From the 1^st generation cross mostly only white koi were produced along with a few shiro bekkos. The shiro bekkos were crossed with sankes to produce 3^rd generation hybrid sankes. Likewise the 2^nd generation white koi were crossed to produce kohaku, showa, goshiki and also yamabuki ogon using high quality koi parents of the type wanted.

The goal was to produce faster growing and stronger/healthier “hybrid” koi from these crosses. The baby hybrid koi he brought to our event to sell clearly demonstrates his success to date. His Tosai koi can reach 20 inches and his two year old koi can reach 29 inches. Other breeders have bred wild carp into their bloodlines but their percentage of jumbo (over 30 in koi as a total of their production is less than 10% where his percentage of jumbo koi is about 50%. Yohei-san has been able to produce high quality koi within 3-4 generations containing about 25% wild carp genes as a result. Other breeders starting with a ordinary black carp as a parent koi have had to wait until 5-6 generations and have used more ordinary koi as parents resulting in only 2-3% wild carp genes remaining in their hybrid koi production.

To see some photo's of Yohei Hybrid koi CLICK HERE

Mr. Megumi Yoshida has been in the koi business in Tokyo, Japan for over 30 years. He is a 3rd generation koi dealer/breeder and a Director of the Japanese Koi Dealer Association. Mr.Yoshida has supplied Grand Champion koi to hobbyists all over the world. He has special relationships with many of the top koi breeders in Japan. This will be his 14^th appearance at our annual seminar and fish sale weekend. His ability to put on high quality seminars and translate into English the comments of his guest breeders makes for a very special event.

 More information will be posted here as soon as more details become available