oh wheres the tattoo?
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| Author: | chips LL [ Sat Jun 23, 2007 9:10 pm ] |
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oh wheres the tattoo?
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| Author: | raine2004 [ Sat Jun 23, 2007 9:13 pm ] |
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It would be the one covering the side of my thigh- its a koi fish. really nice tattoo |
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| Author: | chips LL [ Sat Jun 23, 2007 9:30 pm ] |
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nice! ,,, whats a koi fish  ? excuse my ignorance of types of fish
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| Author: | Tomcat [ Sat Jun 23, 2007 9:46 pm ] |
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The tattoo is a more stylized version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koi |
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| Author: | raine2004 [ Sat Jun 23, 2007 10:10 pm ] |
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The koi fish is a Oriental fish, in Japan it is thought to be a good luck symbol. There is a Japanese myth that says that if a koi fish manages to swim to the top of a waterfall they will turn into a dragon. Now if you dont believe in myths... a koi fish is a carp, it looks kinda like a catfish but some have goldfish like coloring. I want to get a koi dragon down my other thigh but I have to design it first. |
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| Author: | chips LL [ Sat Jun 23, 2007 10:16 pm ] |
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ya you can tell a story like when a koi fish gets to the top of a water fall *pee on tthat side of your leg* it turns into a dragon! than reveal the dragon LOOLZ! awesome,,       
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| Author: | raine2004 [ Sat Jun 23, 2007 10:54 pm ] |
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Quote: ya you can tell a story like
when a koi fish gets to the top of a water fall *pee on tthat side of your leg* it turns into a dragon! than reveal the dragon LOOLZ! awesome,, ......eeewww! 
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| Author: | Tax_man [ Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:09 am ] |
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Quote: a koi fish is a carp, it looks kinda like a catfish..
..really? in all my years ive never seen the similarity. Maybe in the artistic tattoo style hehe 
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| Author: | raine2004 [ Sun Jun 24, 2007 5:48 am ] |
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Sorry, posted at 1am I was tired. Most koi fish tattoos look like catfish, the odd time you'll find a artist that actually drew it to look like a real koi but over all they all look like catfish- dont know why tho catfish arent all that attractive. Thank god my artist changed mine so its actually cute  Better Tax-man?? lol |
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| Author: | Tax_man [ Sun Jun 24, 2007 5:55 am ] |
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lol i just had a horrible image of you having a brown-ish carp like creature with long fins and whiskers tatt'd on your leg hehe
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| Author: | raine2004 [ Sun Jun 24, 2007 6:03 am ] |
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LMAO! NO! THANK GOD! Nah but he does have the fins and whiskers, but he's a goldfish color- well orange right now he's unfinished yet, after so long we had to stop because my skin was starting to tear We'll add the yellow later to brighten him up. He's cute!
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| Author: | RvnScarlet [ Sun Jun 24, 2007 6:14 am ] |
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I worked on a koi farm for a weekend once. My friend Amber's dad owns several in the Virginia/north carolina area. It's amazing how many varieties there are and the price ranges. He sold one once to a japanese man for 50k but the prices range from $50-100k if memory serves me. |
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| Author: | raine2004 [ Sun Jun 24, 2007 6:22 am ] |
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Wow! Thats alot of money for a fish! lol I'm gonna start breeding the darn things- I'll be rich! Rich I tell you! But really that much for a fish??? Thats cool tho, it would be an interesting thing to get into.
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| Author: | RvnScarlet [ Sun Jun 24, 2007 6:32 am ] |
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ya, but it's really stressful and the really expensive ones are the hardest to work with. It's so gross tho cause you have to "milk" the females and the males, and by "milk" I mean that you first give them something that makes them produce the eggs/sperm and then you literally have to pick them up and squeeze it out of them. SO GROSS! That btw was my job, milking the damn fish. Aside from all of the ponds you'll have to have and science you'll have to know to keep the water, earth of the ponds, etc in the right conditions for them to strive, etc you'll also have to travel to japan and get to know koi farmers there and make yourself known and your product trusted, takes years. Also these days it's appreciated if you hire on a koi farmer from there and provide a place for him to live as well as pay him enough to keep his family provided for. He'll help on the farm etc but it'll cost you. LOL To be honest, I wouldn't bother with it. oh and one more thing, if something happens like say a bacteria grows in one or two of the 100 ponds you have, you'll have to shut down everything, kill off the fish and wait until you're told the ponds are free of the bacteria before you can start over. That episode cause her dad to have a heartattack and nearly a nervous breakdown. It took a year at least before he could start up again and another year to start making money again. |
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| Author: | raine2004 [ Sun Jun 24, 2007 6:41 am ] |
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Sick! They made you jerk off a fish? ewww! I take it back, I dont care if I'm poor! I dont want a Koi farm. |
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