freds pond and new grow on additions

[frederick thompson]

here is plants been repotted and photo s coming up of new small 3 inch fish for growing on.

 

[frederick thompson]

before I cut the plants

after I cut the iris and re potted a few plants

iris cut down

 

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pond and fish this morning waiting to be fed.

 

[frederick thompson]

sealed this grating over the bottom drain in my grow on tank. reason these are only 3 inch and will end up in my filters. if I left the bottom drain dome on. the flow is just the same to the filters by gravity

this sanke was 3 inch now 8 months a go. 10 inch now moved over to my main pond.
growing fast.

kohaku 10 inch got it same time as the sanke now in main pond

 

[frederick thompson]

here is the 12 new ones to grow on

the top right brown one is a little butterfly chagoi koi 3 inch

 

[frederick thompson]

all new plant pots all been repotted. and my iris plants before I cut them down
reason I cut them was the winds where blowing them over. roots where to long as well underneath
the baskets. so cut them as well

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that's it folks happy ponding have a great summer
fred

 

[Franks]

Those grow on Koi are beautiful

 

[frederick thompson]

Those grow on Koi are beautiful

Cheers mate. They have already put 1/2 inch on since getting them.
I am going to keep them in the QT grow on.
For about 18 months on heat temperatures
23c
I am feeding them twice a day. In about 6 weeks I will up the feed to 4 times a day.
There doing well
There Israeli koi from love aquatic Blackpool.
I have Japanese koi. And that's all I used to get.
Then I went from koi keeping to fish keeping. Mainly because of the grand children. They rock up with a present for grandad. And I don t have the heart to turn it down.
So I have Rudd.orfs.grass carp. Tench.a goldfish that was supposed to be a koi.
In the pond now.
And they have all grown on me.
That's why I changed. From jap koi to more or less anything goes now.
And they class them as there fish Haha
Them 12 in the bowl in the photo.there
My 4 year olds now. Even though he gave them to grandad for a pressie. I sent for them over the net.
So if there's say five of them not up to my standard
I will still have to keep them or all hell will let loose
Haha

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[frederick thompson]

how s it going mort hope your well and taking good care of yourself. hope your garden and pond is good mate
foxfish hope your well mate

 

[Jacob Coleman]

Those are some well fed koi!

 

[frederick thompson]

Those are some well fed koi!

cheers mate there on three feeds a day now. the large ones in the main pond. and my grow on ones are on four feeds a day with large handfuls of queni jap mix high protein food. also during a day the get 3 slices of bread
and twice a week muscles and shrimps. now and again I give them a bit of honeyed ham.
I have about 10 koi 25cm and 7 koi that are above 50cm and 2 that are 75cm. so there big eaters. especially the chagkoi