[dick benbow]

Well no pics this time. Kigoi, Ochiba and Green Chagoi are not that photogenic!
kinda glad to have that work behind me! The Ochibas looked nice. We'll see how their patterns hold, bout the most transitory koi I know! When they first came out they didn't used to be that way!
caught a few nisai from the growth pond. Have a shallow bay to the main pond where we feed each day that can be closed with a net. Caught a really nice shiro with menware and an eye patch and a matsukawabake
that we moved inside. the kumonryu eluded me this time but eventually
we'll catch up with him/her. It's my best one and I'd like to see how it's doing before it gets too cold to feed!

This next month work on a new green house will commense so that i have twice the space next year to work with.

had a spectator show up and watch the process of sorting for about an hour. He fell in love with the baby asagi's so i had to send him home with two. Reminded me of myself 25 years ago when I bought two koi to raise in the winter time in an aquarium. By spring I was exchanging half the water in the 29 gallon tank EACH DAY and frantic to get the foot long sanke's into some kind of outside pond. It was all they could do to turn around inside the tank! (lol)