Looking for a Ai Goromo

[Nancy M.]

Quote: Originally Posted by koiczar Kristine I notice you have just a few posts. Are you new to the board or have you just been lurking for awhile. Could you please tell us a little more about your pond,e.g. how large, how many fish etc. You know, the typical data. You have some very nice fish and it looks like you maintain your pond for them to be able to really develop/grow quite well. NICE JOB!! Mike

Now answering all those questions should take Miss. Peterson a long time I will say this she has outstanding koi husbandry skills, and an eye to go with it.

[koiczar]

Quote: Originally Posted by Nancy M. Now answering all those questions should take Miss. Peterson a long time I will say this she has outstanding koi husbandry skills, and an eye to go with it.

Nancy

Thanks for the input. Having already, basically, said those things, and the obvious fact that she is no beginner, I thought maybe she'd like to share some of her successful information first hand.

Mike

[moikoi]

Quote: Originally Posted by Kristine Yes Nancy she/he is one of Kenny's Kids. I think it is a she....or else stays on very good behavior to stay in the girls pond. Body looks male but gill plate is very smooth. So here she is at age 4 and proof that she will someday be a goromo. 23"

WOW!! beautiful Kristine. wish i own a 4 yr old goromo that still looks like a kohaku.

[Kristine]

Thanks Mike, Moikoi and Luke!
I didn’t know about this site until recently when a friend sent me the link. I’ve noticed several topics that I need to learn about so I got a lot of reading to do. I feel like an idiot when others starting talking about the bloodlines and farms in Japan. And I have a few 4+ yr olds that I’m still not sure if male or female. Including this Goromo, which I hope becomes a beauty like the one Mike posted.

For never having any type of fish before, I have kept my first Koi alive and very healthy since ’99 when I put in a 200 gal Home Depot pre-formed pond. I liked that pond so much that I added a second Home Depot 120 gal pond just above it connected with a pre-formed waterfall ramp. It looked really nice but I had to clean the filter every day so that project didn’t last long before the next trip to Home Depot was for a good digging shovel. At least I did some reading and by then had joined a koi club and learned about design for predator proofing and bottom drains. When I start a project I want to finish it yesterday so I missed the part about the skimmer and overflow. That 2500 gal pond worked for about a year until they spawned and that was it! The girls got their own 4000 gal pond. In addition to the 6500 gal in both ponds the filtration adds close to another 2000 gal. Other than not enough room for bigger ponds I’m happy (for now).

Having a regular maintenance program works for me and also keeping a pond journal. If you don’t test the water every week, how do you know what is going on?
New fish are QT, named, scraped and treated if needed. I keep everything on hand to medicate if needed, a generator in the garage, a spare pump and Nancy’s cell number just in case. I dont get the aeromonus problems but I think that has to do with flushing the gunk out of the vortex filters every day.

Sadly, I’ve learned through others mistakes and sharing them is how others learn so I’ll share one of mine.
I’m the type that doesn’t harm anything that isn’t harming me and don’t mind a few spiders in the yard. Well a spider about the size of a dime had moved into a decorative birdhouse hanging on the pond cover 6x6. I didn’t think much about it and soon it was the size of a ½ dollar. Soon there were dime size babies everywhere making webs in the 2x6’s that covered the ponds. I could catch them with a broom when they would come out in the evening and I would put them in a jar and turn them loose elsewhere. As soon as one fell off the broom and hit the water, it was gone. The next morning one of my fish (Peaches) was on the bottom next to the drain paralyzed and died that day. Since then I squish all spiders near the pond.

Too bad I missed the SU grow out but I’m having fun watching others grow them. Its quite a learning experience even for those not participating.One of my favorites is a SU that I bought from Eastern Nishikigoi in 2002 that no one else wanted so I bought my first SU and took her home that day. If you have the Oct 2004 Koi USA you can see how she turned out.

[Kristine]

Nancy, I'll be at the May event....with your pins.

[koiczar]

Yeppers, I too have one of those stories. Shortly after converting my pool over, early that summer the fish were still acclimating and learning their surroundings. Well, bees love to occasionally come down for a quick bit of refreshment. Once in a while the end up on the surface. Well, my very nice shiro I had gotten on my first trip to Japan in 2001 just couldn't resist the temptation. The next day, the left side of the mouth was totally swollen and red. Before I could even catch it she broke out with an infection from inside the mouth. I treated her and she did recover. She was nine years old when she passed on this late winter of unknown causes. No signs of infection and nothing showed up on the scope. Hmmm. Oh well, I enjoyed her antics for 7 years.

Mike

[Nancy M.]

Quote: Originally Posted by Kristine .One of my favorites is a SU that I bought from Eastern Nishikigoi in 2002 that no one else wanted so I bought my first SU and took her home that day. If you have the Oct 2004 Koi USA you can see how she turned out.

Would that would be the one on the cover? AKCA koi of the year?

[Jeff Speck]

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[farne230]

Great stories but back to Ai goromo photographs, history of development, for sale anything all about goromo's.

[Lau Teck Seng]

Hi ,

Just shot this yesterday , so happens thought i share . Think its a Ai Koromo (Budo?). 65cm female , coming 4 yrs old , lost the head colour due to accident and never recovered. honest opinion ?

thanks
ts