kgt3
06-29-2005, 08:31 AM
Hello all
Went to the mud pond last friday to do some culling. I took a few pics to document the morning. Sadly, my digital camera's batt died shortly after
we returned to the fish house were we filled 7 vatts with young koi for sorting and culling. I did manage to get a series of pics from a single scoop of koi from the first vatt. We only harvested a 1/4 of the pond.
Hopefully I will be be better prepared for the next adventure. Returned 32 koi to a a seperate mud pond for further development.
The koi pics represent a random scoop of koi from two different spawns raised in the same pond. Spawn one was selective kohaku to kohaku.
Spawn two was a flock spawning with a large golden yellow ogon female and various male suitors of high quality. I do not normally harvest flock spawnings but was interested to see what this big deep yellow ogon would throw. There are some very interesting results which I hope to share with u later. I will tell u that I will finally get a chagoi for my pond . There is quite an interesting mix. These koi are 62 days old.
and the hatches were only 3 days apart. Look closely and you will find a nice tancho that I didnt even realize was there until I looked at these pictures. Also saw a couple of ginrin chagoi. Have no idea how that happened. Also not represented well in this batch are a really beautiful
lemon colored koi much like a typical kohaku pattern but the hi is replaced by the lemon drop yellow. Have quite a few in the grow out pond now.
BTW....Just heard about ripper. Bummer Ian. Was sorry to hear about that one.
Click on link for pics.
http://www.koivista.com/display_series.php?series=239&page=0&id=159
Went to the mud pond last friday to do some culling. I took a few pics to document the morning. Sadly, my digital camera's batt died shortly after
we returned to the fish house were we filled 7 vatts with young koi for sorting and culling. I did manage to get a series of pics from a single scoop of koi from the first vatt. We only harvested a 1/4 of the pond.
Hopefully I will be be better prepared for the next adventure. Returned 32 koi to a a seperate mud pond for further development.
The koi pics represent a random scoop of koi from two different spawns raised in the same pond. Spawn one was selective kohaku to kohaku.
Spawn two was a flock spawning with a large golden yellow ogon female and various male suitors of high quality. I do not normally harvest flock spawnings but was interested to see what this big deep yellow ogon would throw. There are some very interesting results which I hope to share with u later. I will tell u that I will finally get a chagoi for my pond . There is quite an interesting mix. These koi are 62 days old.
and the hatches were only 3 days apart. Look closely and you will find a nice tancho that I didnt even realize was there until I looked at these pictures. Also saw a couple of ginrin chagoi. Have no idea how that happened. Also not represented well in this batch are a really beautiful
lemon colored koi much like a typical kohaku pattern but the hi is replaced by the lemon drop yellow. Have quite a few in the grow out pond now.
BTW....Just heard about ripper. Bummer Ian. Was sorry to hear about that one.
Click on link for pics.
http://www.koivista.com/display_series.php?series=239&page=0&id=159