Devin's Pond

I set up a 500 liter tank to overwinter my fish in at the tosai house. We have a lot of tosai this year so there isn't any room for my koi in one of the big tanks. Luckly Marudo has lots of misc. tanks and filters, so I was able to throw something together for my koi.


After the tank was up and running I pulled my pond. I culled one last time before moving my fish in. The count is at 77 fish, culled down from 10,000! I'm happy with how they turned out, I have about 3 that look promising. Marudo is letting me grow out 4 of my fish in one of his mudponds next year, I'm so excited! My tategoi are in one of the big tanks, so they'll grow through the winter too. Most of my fish are at about 20 cm in length right now, so I look forward to how big they'll grow during the winter

What's Happening in the Koi World?

Culling was finished up a while back, so we started pulling the tosai ponds and bringing them in for the winter. We just finished up pulling the last 2 remaining ponds, so tosai harvesting is finished for year. After the ponds have been pulled we drain them for the winter and catch any fish that managed to escape the seine net while pulling, and bring them to the koi house. All of the ponds are already drained, and we broke down the little storage houses we built at the different pond locations too. Pretty much anything to do with tosai ponds is all set for the winter.



So we moved our attention to the big koi houses. We cleaned the filters and scrubbed clean the tanks at Muikaichi. The paint still looks pretty good so we didn't repaint this year. Also we cleaned all the windows & doors to tidy up the place. With cleaning we have been doing a lot of organizing, putting away tools & supplies we won't need again until next year.



Coming up is the harvest of the big fish, I can't wait!