Summer is always so nice in Minnesota and we all love the first cooler days of Fall. The koi look prettier in the cooler waters and everything seems pretty nice until the first leaves start to drop. My gardens start looking tired and plants are dying off. I usually try to cut back many of…
Category: Indoor koi land
This winter is getting expensive
I’ve calculated that a few hundred dollars worth of koi have met their demise this winter. The latest casualty was a cute, little kohaku named Chichai. The operative word is “little”. Chichai was just small enough to swim into the PVC elbow where tank water is pulled for recirculation. Normally the PVC elbow is pointed…
Spring is coming to Minnesota
The pond digger can’t wait for spring. He loves to be outside when it’s sunny, working around the yard. The last few days, he’s been busy helping the ice to melt… Lots more to blog about now that spring is on its way 🙂
You win some and you lose some
….but the Pond Digger never gives up on the koi if they look like they might have the smallest spark of life. Our koi that stayed in an indoor garage tank and developed a pop eyed was definitely dead when we returned from a 24 hour trip to Iowa. Zuzu’s two tank mates seem fine…
Where is Hato?
Haven’t been posting much since winter basically had us in a deep freeze. This weekend the pond digger announced that winter was over. The temperatures have been above 40 and will be going up to the 50s this week. The outdoor ponds are beginning to melt and the indoor koi seem to be little more…
17 tosai arrive in Minnesota
We had a busy day with the new koi. The pond digger has been doing a ton of work getting their new home ready. He decided to do a few modifications before they were released. Then he went to the hardware store and purchased a gazillion more pieces of things to re-do the filtration system…
expanding indoor koi land
The pond digger is the best. We were hoping to have the weekend to set up a new indoor tank for the incoming tosai but ended working around Kevin Pham’s schedule. Lucky Kevin is going to Japan for a koi show (the All Japan show, kind of like the Super Bowl-Westminster Kennel Club event of…
Taking a peek into the outdoor winter pond…
It’s warming up a little bit in Minnesota and today the highs are in the 30s. Indoor koi land has been smelling up our garage. So it was very nice to be able to do a really healthy water change and to wash out the filters. Garage smells 100% better. I threw in 6 pellets…
Saving Buttercup
The nice thing about being a member of a local koi club is that there are always a lot of nice people who are willing to dispense some expert advice. Thank you Cheng, Michael, Matt and Michelle – everyone had some good suggestions. Of course the major suggestion was to get the yamabuki to a…
2015 is not starting well
Indoor koi land had a few hiccups including the loss of a koi…a doitsu kikusui named Crazy Horse. Crazy Horse should have been named Dumb A**. This koi decided to investigate the hole in the water tank that pulls the water to the filtration system. It stuck its mouth into the 3/4 inch hole and…
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