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Carl's a big guy, but he looks like a giant next to some of the staff at Jinbei Koi Farm.

Bass can sometimes get into the mud ponds, where they can eat the tosai. This one was found when they pulled a mudpond at Chogoro Koi Farm, where they intended to cook it for dinner—that is if their cat didn't get it first!

Watching these dazzling white platinum ogons swim about is a hypnotic experience.

Then the earthquake struck. An excerpt from a Japanese website:

A sequence of powerful earthquakes struck Mid Niigata Prefecture, central Japan October 23, 2004.The intensity registered 6+ on the 7-grade Japanese intensity scale. Many aftershocks including some M6 class events followed.

Fortunately neither Carl nor any of the breeders he deals with were injured. The region was devastated, and Carl had to curtail his trip. Amazingly, virtually all the fish he had purchased survived and were able to be shipped back to Pennsylvania. He has photos of the earthquake damage, and one of these days we'll get them up on the site (maybe).