Shinshiro Koi

A Very Warm Welcome To Our New Website

It's been some time in the making but I think it all works at last and the new Shinshiro Koi website launched on 26th April. The new site builds on the previous easy to navigate layout and now has more features and more information. We hope you like it.

(If you find anything which doesn't work, please let me know).

With this new website, my main aim has been to try and keep it logical and easy to use and I hope you will find it just that.

To celebrate the launch, any orders from the website during May and June will be entered into a draw with the winner receiving a voucher worth £100.00 towards a Koi of their choice. GOOD LUCK !

Its taken so long to produce the website that already it's Spring again and that always means a Spring buying trip.

We were in Japan from 10th to 17th of April selecting High grade Tosai & Nissai and, at times, it was quite a tough trip trying to find the high quality Koi we were after. For example, one of our regular suppliers, Tomezo, was completely sold out of Koi. All gone to Chinese dealers. In fact, Japan now has so many visitors from China that public service announcements such as on the railways, are now made in Japanese, English and Chinese.

However, many of our other friends did have stock and again we have returned with some Very Special Koi for 2012.

We were surprised to find lots of snow in Niigata with more than 2 metres still on the mountains. Although it was melting quickly while we were there, the lying snow covering most of the mud ponds, and the still cold water, means that the breeders will be 3 or 4 weeks later than normal in putting their Koi out to the ponds. It may not be a great year for growing on ?

Shipment date for the new Koi is today, 26th April and all the Koi will be back in Newcastle by the early hours of tomorrow, Friday the 27th. Once they have had a few days to settle in, they will be available to view and/or reserve. As this depends on how well they have travelled, please call for details of just when viewing will be possible - 0191 4887487.

Unfortunately, this trip, I have not taken a great number of individual photo's of the Koi we bought. It's very unusual, but it's just the way it worked out this time. I did take group shots though and you can see those here: New Koi

Our baby Koi from the early Spring shipment have already finished their quarantine period, are on sale from now and looking good. There is an extensive selection from all of our favourites breeders plus some which we have grown on ourselves including Shiro Utsuri with direct bloodline from the famous White Tiger.

Naturally, all of the new Koi will be on the website just as soon as we have them photographed.

Here’s hoping for some good weather in 2012 so we can all enjoy our ponds.