As a child in the 4th grade, I was enthusiastic about everything that lives and goes on in the water. At that time, this was treated as a factual issue at school. There was an aquarium in the school room where frog spawn, newts and dragonfly larvae were used. The tadpoles hatched and then gradually developed into frogs. The predatory dragonfly larvae grew until finally a dragonfly hatched. All of this excited me. I went home and built my first pond with a piece of plastic, which was more like a puddle.

At some point the parents were convinced, the first biotope was built and suddenly I got goldfish, elrizas and sunfish from friends. This continued for about 1 year until a friend's father came with three koi (Kohaku, Sanke, Hi Utsuri). It wasn't clear to me yet, but back then, in 2002, I was probably infected with the Koi virus.

Since then I have built several ponds, received the first customer orders and started to start breeding koi and building the inner enclosure. As the work in this area increased more and more, I decided to take it as part of a business activity and to found koikichi.ch.