A little update: Gesha, my all time favorite jumped out of pond 2 month ago... Said. A Xia, vanished. ( It might got into the pump ... Yeeeea). Also, Last week, I went to kodama.com auctioned two koi, the tancho sanke is from danichi. and a gosinki. $56 and $51, shipping cost is $105. Not bad. Here is the pictures.

update of AXia and HongYe (autumn)

AXia ,, when we just pull it out of filter box in Auguest, it was 7" now 9"




HongYe when we bought from petsmart, it was 4.5.. now 6" but some beni are weak.

last week, we also got JuHua

We got JuHua 4.5 inch $7.99 .. tail is very thin but good pattern

14" Koma from Sacramento koi

Yesterday, we went to Sacramento Koi.. Bought Koma for $125 14" looks like Nisai. I thought it was Sanke, but on dealer called it Showa. After reviewing the picture, I do see a black mark on the mouth area.

阿雄now and then...

Looks its he.. and 12"... but the color looks very funny

阿上now and then

finally, I bowled her up.. she is 11"



when she was 4" last year:

Got more koi

Per Kai, we don't have enough red color in our pond. Champion is starting to lose color big time... and Alice is going to college next year, we are only going to have the budget of Petsmart! So I went to Elk grove's Petsmart, got Elk Grove from gold fish tank, $5.99


Elk Grove was very lonely, he need a friend, so next day, we went to Citrus heights, find 九月. He is 5" $12.99



Next day, we need to get some food for the little 九月 and Elk grove, so we went to Arden, and found Autumn. ..4.5inch $7.99

阿下 now and then

I had 阿下 from petsmart last year (2010 fall).. and didn't like it, so I throw it to my filter box (anoxic filter system) This weekend, per Kai's request, we dig throw the filter, and relocated 阿下 to the normal pond, he/she is 7" compare with its sibling 阿上 who is at least 9-10 inches (will post picture once I can catch it). But 阿下's color is improved very nicely! Noticing that he got lots of secondary hi, I never put any food in filter box, so it was on algae all the time and somehow enhanced its color.



This is when he was 4" long:

2011 Geisha is 17" now!

Sept 15, 2011..
Finally, after rehome some of koi, I only have 10 left:

Geisha 17" the black started to show and it changed to Koromo
Roseville 18"
Champion ~16 but he is loosing color
Lemon 15-16
Utsuri 16 - 17
Arden ~ 15
Tancho 10 - 12
黄黑 12-13
阿上 8-10
阿熊 8-10

Feb 9, 2011

Geisha 14" I still cannot decide if its female or male



Roseville 12.5" More and more looks like goshiki .. seems female too.

nov updates

I measured some koi today.\
Tancho, got her 2 month ago from petsmart 4" $4.95 today 5" She got some 2nd hi, hope that goes away

妃子 finally is 10" pretty color.. surely is male.

龙袍 is 14" Yeeee~!
Sanke is 8 1/2"

Arden is 10"

My Geisha is 13"

I started feed my own home made koi food starting september for several weeks, and Utsuri is 12"

shopping more from petsmart

5 more little koi today
阿上


阿下


小小sanke


Hope





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Koi Inventory

1龙袍 13
2红袍 12
3黑袍 10
4贵妃 12
5妃子 9
6小红嘴 9
7Geisha 12
8Utsuri 11
9Lemon 11
10Arden 9 1/2
11Champion 11
12Roseville 11
13Sanke 8

We also brought 5 additional Koi from petsmart ($4.99/each)
小黑
黑蛋儿
小tancho
little showa （阿英）
un-named （阿雄）

September 2010 /

Just measured 龙袍和小红嘴, 13" and 9" This summer, I feed them with Koi Chow, maybe its not a good brand (someother dealer is saying that). I started make my own koi food, shrimp, fish, seaweed, egg, yeast and flower, peas.. hope that will increase the growth rate.



We also start to buy petsmart koi, few Japanese koi did not turn to be too good, 贵妃 lost all her beni. 妃子didn't grown too much compare with others. On the other hand, Rosevill is big and beautify now, so is Arden and little sanke. So we brought two additional hope to be Showa someday.
阿英

阿雄

Geisha is 12" which I think 5" growth in 10 month is not too bad.


Shiro Utsuri now is 11" (5" growth from March). Its very yellow due to Koi Chow. I am hoping it will whiteout during the winter.


Arden is 9 1/2". the head is pointy, and body is too fat.



Champion is 11". Hopefully it won't lose its beni. The white skin is beautiful


Here is Roseville, I turned her and looked like girl, 11"


Roseville when we just had her 4"


Little Sanke, have to say, I like him the best. But he looked like a boy, had this "Male" things in the back, but should he be more red for male? 8"