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I head out for home tomorrow, still with no news on how my visa is coming. Atleast I'll keep busy while back in Minnesota, we have the 2nd Annual Upper Midwest Koi Club's Koi Show at Bachmann's coming up. I'll be there helping out and after that Koi Acres is also very busy building ponds, so I'll be working on that too. So atleast as I wait for my visa to be processed I won' t be sitting around bored.

Devin's Pond

I did the first cull on my pond this past Sunday the 13th. Last year when I did showa I only release about 10,000 fry in my pond, but this year I released 20,000 sanke fry. Showa are culled once (picking out only the black fry) before being released out into the mud ponds, therefore not as many fry are released. So this year with double the amount of fish I asked my friend to help me cull. He agreed to help & I am very thankful for it!

From 20,000 fry we culled down to 775, with about 3 that really stand out. My fry have grown to about 3-4 cm, not too bad; but they could be bigger. With only 775 pieces left over though, they should have a lot more room to grow! I'm already looking forward to the second cull!