Growing koi with Bakki Showers

[tewa]

Hi Guys

I would like to share the development of my koi over this growing season Oct 05 to Apr 06. Its the start of winter here in australia. I moved from Perth in western australia before the growing the season to sydney NSW. When I moved I brought along 8 of my favourite koi. These koi were kept in various temp ponds as I was only at a temporary residence.

They were in a 4000L above ground pond in Oct and Nov

10,000L above ground pond in Dec

1000L above ground pond in Jan

6000L above ground pond in Feb, Mar and Apr (water temp ave was 17 degrees)


All ponds used bakki showers. The final 6 ton pond (3m long 2.2m wide and 1m high), used 2 sets of 3 tier showers with 130kg of bacteria house. Water fed by a 15000L submersible and a 18000L skimmer pump. Estimate flow after pipe friction and fittings etc was around 26000L/hr. 3 hi blow 80s were also used to provide more water movement.

This is a pic of Koi B (from my website) 21cm in July, in Oct was 24cm (no pic)


In late february, early march (it was sold), 45cm




This sanke was 14cm In Oct


Now 40cm




Koi C was 17cm in this pic and 21 cm in Oct 05


Now she 48.5cm, this koi is 16 months old and only had 1 and a half growing season (some koi maybe 18 months and have had 2 full growing season)




This koi has only grown 4cm age unknown, male, will be used as a breeder later




Chagoi 48cm


Now 57cm




Kohaku 42cm


Now 52cm



This koi was 54cm in Oct (no pic lost in hard drive crash) now 63cm





The last koi had grown from 25cm to 42cm.



Hope you enjoyed the pics

tewa

[tewa]

Here are some other koi that were added btw feb and apr 06



































Hope you guys enjoyed the pics

TEWA

[junglegeorge12]

Hey tewa, nice collection. For some reason alot of the pics aren't showing up. I would like to see them all.

[tewa]

Hopefully the pics should be alright, please let me know if they dont show up

TEWA

[aquitori]

Originally Posted by tewa

Hopefully the pics should be alright, please let me know if they dont show up

TEWA

Still the same...

[jnorth]

Geocities has a bandwidth limit. Host the pics at another site and it will work better.

[junglegeorge12]

Nice toes, they are showing up now, nice and very good growth rates. Those do not look like they r all australian bred....

[junglegeorge12]

I was surfing the net and ran across some anrgy old blowhard who says that the bakki has nothing to do with final growth size, but we all know stunted koi do not usualy fully recover, so that cannot be 'all' true. His comments leaned towards they would evnetualy reach the same size anyway, but if that is so then why does Momotaro and others using showers have so many GC wins?

Seems kind of opposite to say 'it is all preprogrammed by dna' then to say 'if the growth is stunted it will not fully recover in most cases'. Just some food for thought.

[mrbradleybradley]

Hong

Will we see any of these koi at next years shows?

Bradley

[tewa]

hey Bradley

Maybe some will goto the show, most wont as most are still developing, growing them to the full length is more important for me before the show.

Hey aquitori
you really cant see it everytime i open the thread i see it. I will try and host it on my site but when my hard drive went down and the computer needed to be reformatted i lost my ftp connection program need the computer tech to hook it up ie the gf

hong