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Fish Fridays – Shusui Koi!

Truly one of the shimmering jewels in your pond, the Shusui koi has been around for nearly 100 years!  The first Shusui were created by Mr. Akiyama after cross breeding the german mirror carp with an Asagi in 1917.  The resulting fish is very similar to an Asagi, but with a nice group of doitsu scales down the back which are called Shusui (meaning ‘autumn water’), since the rows of blue scales…