Today we visited our shiro utsuri, Natsumi, who lives about an hour north at Koi Acres. She is being cared for this winter by the staff at Koi Acres in a nice warm environment. Natsumi has already grown one inch since she was harvested from the mud pond in October. Hopefully she will add on…
Month: November 2015
Happy Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Day – the first snow of winter 15-16. Our little equipment shelters are holding up. We will still need to build a back panel for the shelters. The ponds are about 85% full with running aerators to ensure they don’t cave in with winter freezing and thawing. Slideshow of the koi – Thanksgiving…
More work closing the ponds
It’s kind of like the fable about the grasshopper and the ant. The last two weekends were pretty nice temperature wise and we probably should have disconnected all the pumps and valves. But, we didn’t think it was going to get incredibly cold overnight and the pond digger is trying to let his broken rib…
Proper footwear is important…
Koi keeping can be dangerous. Particularly if you are wearing leather dress shoes around the equipment pit and decide to fiddle with one little thing before work. Normally the pond digger hops over the pipes with ease. Two weeks ago he missed his footing and luckily we had no broken legs, torn knees or nasty…
Impulse shopping
Yes, there is impulse koi shopping. Actually I think most of my koi purchases are on the impulsive side. Pretty koi are hard to resist and I always love some of the more colorful koi. In this case, Kevin Pham of Genkikoi had been posting a lot of videos of new koi for purchase. Lots…
Cleaning up the ponds
Beautiful weekend outside albeit a little chilly. We spent most of it cleaning up the yard and the pond digger worked on one of the equipment pits. We never got around to covering the pits so we have all winter to decide what we’re going to do. He also has started cleaning up the ponds…
What do they do all day?
Every time I look they’re just swimming around…
Winter pool at work
The pond digger did a lot of work at night this week and in between NFL football plays. He created a drip system for the winter pool, a giant rain bar, extra lights in the garage and some time this week a heavy plastic divider wall will go up to keep the aquarium smell contained….
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