Between rainy weather and work (the pond digger’s day job is CEO of a company that manufactures soaps and detergents), we haven’t done a lot on the pond. Just a few things here and there, like more rocks down, finishing the gravel paths and moving some koi around. We changed the names of two of…
Category: Koi in general
baby koi
Well it’s amazing what you can find in the pond when the water clears up. Some things are not so fun like the stubborn clumps of string algae and acorn tops the squirrels keep shaking into the pond. The really nice thing is that the koi actually look prettier in the clearer water and I…
Big Pond Worries
Our new pond is three weeks old and I am having major anxiety issues. Two days ago the water levels were perfect. Now I have a nitrite spike, which is normal for new ponds but there can be a lot of bad consequences if it’s not taken care of. The pond should naturally develop bacteria…
The fun part of koi keeping
It seems we do a lot of work on our weekends taking care of the koi and building the new pond. It is work but there’s a lot of fun with it as well. This weekend was plant weekend and it was nice to see all the koi excited about the plants. We picked out some…
We’re opening a fish hospital…
Did you hear the fish ambulance sirens today? Three more fish are spending some time in the front porch clinic. Moriarty, appears to have some fungus on three scales — Lucy, who has been acting strangely for two weeks has a nasty looking ulcer-fungus thing on her body — Tito, looks like something tried to…
Spring is finaly here (well sort of)
I’m going out on a limb here but I’m pretty sure we have seen the last of snow. We are still having some temperature dips to the low 30s but we have had some beautiful spring weather days. The waterfall system has finally thawed and running as planned. All the koi seem to be doing…
Hmmmmm
After one week, Cha Cha still looks mostly dead. Might try out a yogurt remedy I read about online.
Finding koi on vacation
Unlike my koi, I am able to fly away from the subzero Minnesota temperatures. However, the koi are never really far away from my thoughts and when my husband and I travel, we find a lot of koi. At the Hilton Waikaloa on the Big Island of Hawaii, there was a pleasant koi pond encircling…
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