My Goshiki

Picture of my Ogata Goshiki

New Fish Added Recently

I attended the ZNA Koi Show this past weekend at the Meadowlark Gardens in Vienna, VA. I got there early and landed a deal on 3 baby Sanke from Eastern Koi. The show was fantastic. Many LARGE fish were entered...30" plus in length. Taro Kodama was there from the Kodama Koi farm and I bought his fathers new book. Here is a picture of the sanke and few from the show that I found exciting:

4 new Koi for my Pond

I bought 4 new koi from a coworker who shows koi and wins medals. He has MANY babies and offered these for a good price. 3 are about 14" long and one is about 6" long.

Today I got some late season water lillies from a local nursery as well as a japanese maple for the pond.
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New Arrivals for the Pond

Here are three new Japanese Sushui Koi I purchased for my pond. In a couple of weeks I will be purchasing more from a co-worker.

Feeding Time

Here is one of my larger koi at feeding time.

 

Night Time at the Pond

This a shot I took at night with the pond lights on.

Happy Koi

Moved the Fish Today

Got the water treated for fish and moved them to their new digs.  Next phase is to get the plants transplanted to the right spots and order more rocks.  I may get some new fish too to replace the ones I lost during the snow storm.  The biggest issue are the rocks.  Not enough to get things the way I want them.  More sweat and sore backs!

Almost full

The new pond is almost full.  Today I will get the waterfalls going.

The liner is in!

And the water is flowing.  2075 gallons!  Ill get the water in about 75% then ill trim up the liner.  Best not to do that until the water gets in and pushes the liner to the sides.

If the weather holds up tomorrow I may get more done.

Pond Expansion Day ???

Who's counting anymore.  I'm getting there.  Maybe one more day on the left side making it deeper.  Another day with buddy's help digging out three more feet to the left.  Another day to repair the retaining wall.  One more day to frame out with the timbers.  Then I can install the liner and get some water into this thing.  Stones and plants will take another day.

Its going to rain for the next 3 days so I should be rested up to tackle this next week.

Lord have mercy....what have I got myself into?

Pond Expansion Day 3

Two more days of digging.  I had some bee issues so I decided to work on the other side of the pond.  Still have a lot of dirt to move before I can get the liner installed.  Maybe 4 more days of work to do until them.  Hope the weather holds out.

Pond expansion project day 1

Today buddy and I began the pond expansion project.  He dug with the Kabota while I ferried dirt everywhere that needed it.  More to come.