winter koi

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…

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…

We’ve had some pretty cold temperatures this December before Christmas. The weekend before Christmas our temperatures were down to 25 below zero. The koi have been doing well in their indoor pool, water temperature around 50. They are not eating though. I throw in a few pieces of food and one or two might eat…

Never a dull moment around the koi pond

All summer the pond digger has been sighing and commenting that he’ll have nothing to do next summer. Basically the pond digger is an over grown kid who wants to be outside as much as possible and play with power tools during the good weather months. Since I said we could not have a third…

Winter doldrum

Not a lot of excitement around here and the pond digger is always looking for something to fiddle with on the winter pond. The shower filter was splashing a little more than we would like so he created a PVC something that would put the water shower on to the media with less water flying…

it’s really winter around here

Four more months of winter… December is always a busy month and I’ve been a little lax about posting. We lost one of our smaller koi the other day. A little showa named Marius who had actually been acting oddly for a few weeks now. Not sure why Marius died since the koi looked pretty…

Getting ready for winter

The pond digger ordered a 12′ diameter pool for the winter and it should be delivered tomorrow. We are setting up a little pond in the third bay of the garage for twenty koi. Six of the koi are 20 to 24 inches; ten range from 10 to 18 inches; and four are about 7…