The shiro utsuri koi continue to be interesting. I did lose three this winter to illness which was disappointing. From my small sample the bottom line is that little tosai koi can change an awful lot as they grow. Picking a shiro koi at 6 inches is like purchasing a lottery ticket. Of course, buying…
Month: January 2017
always learning something new
Sad to say but I lost another koi to illness. Louie the asagi died of some internal illness. The only correlation we saw of his illness with the other koi that we lost was that the illness was brought on when we turned on the grow lights. I was visiting my koi at Koi Acres…
Trust a rabbit to damage your landscaping
I have always thought that rabbits and deer did not really like evergreens like pine trees and shrubs. Not sure if I read it somewhere or just made it up. This winter, the rabbit handiwork is very clear. Little bunny prints all around the trees and lower branches nibbled. We have even seen a few…
2017 is not starting out auspiciously
I’ve been told it’s bad luck to name your koi – ooops, I’ve named them all and will continue to do so. Maybe we shouldn’t tempt fate by congratulating ourselves as we did just before the new year. Pond digger and I were thinking that by this time last year we had lost a few…
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