This past weekend I had the privilege to be a student judge at the 2019 Central Koi and Goldfish Show. If you are ever in Orlando in March, this is a great show to experience koi and goldfish. You can’t beat the weather, particularly if you live in Little Siberia…and the show is really big….
Category: Indoor koi land
Koi Keeping in the Winter
It’s not a very exciting time of the year. Outside it’s just cold and we’re wishing for a little more snow. We have some wild turkeys that must live nearby since they are always walking through the yard several times each day. The pond digger tries a variety of methods to discourage them. In the…
Checking on the Koi
Since I last posted, I have traveled to Virginia, watched the Vikings miss out on the Super Bowl, heard a lot of celebs were in the area for Super Bowl (I did not see any), had a few inches of snow, a few days of a spring temperature tease, had a few days of really…
four months until springtime in Minnesota
A little taste of springtime this weekend – temperatures in the 40s! It’s hard to think that my koi still have four more months of indoor koi land. We are hoping for an early spring since the pond builder is itching to fiddle with the outdoor ponds. He can do some work now like rebuilding…
Shiro Utsuri Koi, Manda Fu and Oyagoi
The shiro utsuri koi is a variety that takes several years to develop. Unless you buy large, it’s an exercise in patience like the showa variety. Some will pan out and some won’t. I have only five Omosako shiro utsuris in my collection. I feel three of the koi are good representations of the shiro…
Showa koi and an indoor bakki shower
In 2013 I described koi as red and white, red/black/white, black/white, yellow, copper, tea colored or sparkly. No real clue about varieties, what to buy, where to buy – just interested in some pretty colors swimming around the water feature. Have things changed in the last four years! I have been on a crash course…
The Winter Koi Pool is Open
We have been way behind schedule getting our koi into the garage this year. Life gets kind of busy and we decided we just didn’t have time to create a greenhouse structure over the lower pond this year. So we decided to set up the winter pool again. Unfortunately we had to wait until late…
Spring is trying to get here
We’ve had some warmer weather and it’s tempting to say that winter is over. Of course the minute you think that, it snows the next day. We’ve had some strange swings of temperature but nothing long enough to get back to work outside. The pond areas look pretty dreary: The pond digger is itching…
boring is good
Nothing exciting going on lately – this is good. The koi are hanging around, having little hunger spurts and still waiting out the winter inside of our garage. I do worry that some of the koi are getting more than their fair share but I do see all of them eating something. I’m happy to…
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…
Thanksgiving weekend = pond work
Having a few days off means the pond digger is hard at work doing stuff. He put a smaller pump on the indoor pool filtration system and we actually have clearer water. Sometimes changing the water too fast never gave the floating debris a chance to settle. He also added in a no niche skimmer…
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