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Don't forget that we are on our fall/winter hours so please keep this in mind if you are planning a visit!
Brenda and I visited a monkey park in Yudanaka. There were monkeys everywhere.
I just started carrying this new airpump from Evolution Aqua. Not bad for $180.00.
The koi at the shop http://www.usakoi.com/ are up and swimming. The water is holding at about 55F so I started the koi out on some Manda Fu and also some Hiari-Saki Multi Season. I'm feeding one time a day in the afternoon just to be on the safe side but the koi seem to be very happy about it. You might have seen some of these koi on my website under the New Koi For Sale pages. My favorite is the Showa from Nogami SKU# 200090
I have seen a lot of temples on my trips to Japan and this one was interesting and also the largest in the Nagaoka are.
These girls are tying their hopes and prayers onto this simulated tree in hopes they will come true.
There is still a lot of snow everywhere. This lady is moving it from her garden.
A few koi from Yozimon.
Oomo happens to use Saki-Hikari which we now carry in our shop.
I had to do some KHV testing on some of our new arrivals over the weekend. This is part of the setup. We knock out the koi and lay them up here while we draw the blood.
The koi are labeled and photographed to keep track of their blood samples. This koi is about to get knocked out.
In this picture I'm drawing out the blood. Fortunately not much is required. It isn't too hard to draw the blood after you have done a few.
Another candidate. We can do KHV blood testing at your place or ours email me for more information.
The pond originally had a spin drifter bottom drain installed in it but this drain leaked from the airline so I replaced it with a Rhino II aerated bottom drain. This seemed like the perfect time to replace the drain.
I sprayed the pond in blue first which makes it easier to see any pin holing or misses when I go back over it in black which is the finished color.
It snowed while I was spraying but this awesome winter cover stopped any of the snow from getting in. This is one of my helpers on the job.
Blue Burst! It looked kind of neat and would make a good color for an aquarium but this pond was going to be finished in depthless black.
This is the black going over the blue.
Inbetween coats I fill any pin holes or inperfections that show up from the rough surface on the concrete.
Finished with the Rhino II bottom drain installed.
This is the view the koi will have from inside the pond.
This is a return and below it is a mid level suction point. Normally these would be placed farther apart but in this case the return was installed after the fact by tunneling under a finished sidewalk and patio so there weren't a lot of options.
The finished product ready to be filled minus the puppy.
