There was an article written about me in Niigata pref.`s main new paper (Niigata Nippo) a couple weeks ago. I`ve been getting recognised out in public a lot lately because of it, its kinda odd. I`ve been in the new paper back in Minnesota, even on TV, but I`ve never gotten this much recognision back home.* But then the topper came a couple days ago, I got a letter in the mail, written in English & Japanese. It is from a family in a town about 30 minutes away, they said they were amazed at my interest in Japanese culture. They invited me to come stay at their home and attend a large 3 day festival held in their town. They left their phone number in the letter, but I don`t know if I`ll be in Japan during the festival; so I haven`t called them or know if I should? The kicker though, is how the letter got to me. My address wasn`t exactly written in the news paper, so they just wrote down my name, general area I live in and `Koi Farm`. The letter made its way to me though... maybe the people at the post office read the article about me too...
*Its probably cause I stick out like a sore thumb in this sea of brown eyed black haired people though.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Devin`s Pond & Problem
I don`t have a problem with my pond (yet) like the many I encountered last year. I`m having a problem getting a different visa so I can stay in Japan. My current visa ends on July 24th and Japanese Customs & Immigration thinks I`ve stayed long enough. I`d like to continue my studies of nishikigoi, but I`m having trouble changing over to a different visa. I`ve applied for another visa, so now all I have is to wait and see if it is accepted.
With all of this in the back of my mind I contemplated whether or not to raise fry this year, knowing that I might not be here to finish out the growing / culling season. I decided to go ahead and do it though, if things don`t work out then Marudo will take care of my pond and keep the koi in the fall. So about 2 weeks ago I added sanke fry to my pond, 20,000 pieces. They`ve already grown to about a 1.5 cm in length, form about 0.7 cm when they were added. If they keep up the pace they should be ready for the first cull around the first week of July!
With all of this in the back of my mind I contemplated whether or not to raise fry this year, knowing that I might not be here to finish out the growing / culling season. I decided to go ahead and do it though, if things don`t work out then Marudo will take care of my pond and keep the koi in the fall. So about 2 weeks ago I added sanke fry to my pond, 20,000 pieces. They`ve already grown to about a 1.5 cm in length, form about 0.7 cm when they were added. If they keep up the pace they should be ready for the first cull around the first week of July!
Sunday, June 08, 2008
Spawning Continues
Since the first set, we`ve spawned two more sets of 3 females recently. To accomodate for more fry we moved out tosai to open up some more tanks. We reset up the hatching nursury in the tanks we opened up, now we have lots of room to work with!
The majority of the females spawned recently were showas (5 out of 6 of them), so we have a lot of fry culling ahead of us. We only keep the black fry produced from showas, and we`ll usually start the culling process 2-3 days after they have hatched. Luckly we have a group of grandmothers come and help us because it is very time consuming work!
The majority of the females spawned recently were showas (5 out of 6 of them), so we have a lot of fry culling ahead of us. We only keep the black fry produced from showas, and we`ll usually start the culling process 2-3 days after they have hatched. Luckly we have a group of grandmothers come and help us because it is very time consuming work!
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