Its May now.

Several things happened here.

1. Last Thursday, my yellow butterfly (黄袍）disappeared without any trace. I thought it was some kind of bird, but Kai didn't agree. Friday afternoon around 3:30pm, I step out to the backyard, to my surprise, I saw a great blue heron, 4 feet tall... big big, bird standing between the pond and swimming pool. So, we found the guilty one! Now the pond is netted. This is the first time I saw a wild GB heron IN MY OWN BACKYARD.

2. I got my best koi ever. It was from Alice, Edward as a mother day gift. Edward cooked breakfast and Alice cooked lunch. My best mother's day ever.

last week, 大帅 jumped out

One day, he got stuck between the rock and wounded himself. So I　put him into my hospital tank, after 5 days treatment, he started to look better, but jumped out (even I netted)... So, I buried him in our back yard, under the maple tree.

Today we went bay area again, because TangYing bought a new house. We visit ChampKoi, they had many new Tosai.. and .. I knew I shouldn't, but bought this sanke (

samooo sammmooo

Have a good look at this shiro

Rachael is no happy about my attention towards koi.

Now its time to see my garden !

All my koi are doing good now. Just treated 贵妃，大帅。。The standard treatment for me is 1. a 5 min PP dip (kills all external parasites and some viral) 2. send them to the hospital tank with .4% - .6% salt and amoxicillin for 5 days. So far, its has been successful.

visited SF Japanese Garden

A classical virtual of Japanese Garden


I wonder how much fertilizer did they use to get these much flowers!




Wisteria can be trained like a tree...


A unique way for planter... smart!

Measurement

Arden: Small Kohaku from Petsmart last year

龙袍　　




I really think this koi is male... 10" long ... call it 大帅


Geisha is 9 1/2 inch... I think "She" is a male (finshed so early)


贵妃is 10" today..

Modified my filter

I guess my fancy idea about bio filter box in the prefilter container doesn't work. Removed bio filter box, and put bio media directly in my 150 gallon prefilter which also has anoxic pot (liter clay + laterite + some plants). Increased water flow through filter box.. (2000+ gallon/hr). Amazingly, my ammonia reading is down almost to 0..