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Everybody loves Koi -- especially at feeding time.
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Foot-long koi are hard to miss -- especially when crammed into a 20-gallon
tank.
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04.15.05. One foot long, just out of the bag. Cool scales (Doitsu).
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04.17.05. Two days later. Looking good. I like to see
that dorsal up.
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Same guy. Same day. Other side. Really interesting
scales. Looks almost mechanical.
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Are those barbels or a Fu Manchu mustache? These six koi are all
from Malaysia.
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04.15.05. One foot long, just out of the bag. Tri-color Taisha
Sanke -- not quite cool enough
to be a Showa Sanke.
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04.17.05. Two days later, still not quite adapted to the tank.
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Same guy, opposite side. Dorsal not quite up yet. Algae now
off background.
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04.18.05. Nick in dorsal but looks much happier than earlier.
The nick will heal.
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You know you can eat these guys, too?
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04.15.05. One foot long, just out of the bag. Cool scales (Doitsu)
but hard to see them with this lighter colored background.
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04.17.05. Scales much easier to see today. Cleaner water?
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Long snout on this guy.
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Still, kinda cute in the face.
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04.15.05. One foot long, just out of the bag. Tri-color Sanke.
Pretty much a not so cool tri-color. Still costly because of the
size (three or four years old?).
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Same Sanke two days later. Not totally adapted yet or his dorsal
would be erect.
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Why the long face?
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The duckweed detracts, but he looks good from the top. His reds are
nicely vibrant.
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Here's another tri-color.
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This tri-color looks very good from the top.
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Red and white, Kohaku. Okay, but not great.
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04.15.05. One foot long, just out of the bag. Kohaku with
Doitsu scales. Doitsu is the Japanese version of Deutsche, which
means German in Deutschland (Germany).
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Two days later we see the Doitsu scales better but he's losing points on
that clamped dorsal.
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But since we're supposed to view him from the top, he still looks good.
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Very strange. We diagnosed constipation and recommended
duckweed. Cool eye.

Butterfly koi, Picture
courtesy of Nathan Hightower
Butterfly
Koi. Nathan Hightower netted this butterfly koi from a small
river in central Texas. Rather than the multi-color standard koi
look, this guy has a coloration better suited to survival in the wild --
very similar to the colors of our wild carp population. Just a
reminder that the Federal Fish and Game people brought these fish to
America as a game fish. They have adapted very well.
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Here's a six-inch koi looking very much like a wild Carp.
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This 14-incher does not appreciate being shoehorned into a 20H (with lid,
of course).
Trade
Ins: At the end of the pond season, some of our customers insist
on bringing in their koi. If you have three feet of water in your
pond, your koi would much rather stay outside. They need no earmuffs.
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For
more koi info and pics go to Koi and Carp.
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