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 A group of hardy water lilies from Home Depot
and Wal*Mart. The mini lily was bought
at Wal*Mart for $4.88 and came with a
smallpot, some gravel and fertilizer tabs. |
 Here
you can see the ivy covering the rock necklace. Just gently guide
it along holding it down with a rock here and there until it roots.
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 Some
young adult serassa goldfish wait to go to their new homes.
Sponge filters are used in these pools for filtering and
aeration. The serassa goldfish have been phased out in favor of
shubunkins or calicos.
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 Several hundred young koi raised in a 500 gallon filtered pool. These are both short fin and butterfly koi. There are metallics, scaleless, mirror scale and diamond scale koi. 10/05 |
 The 500 gallon tub with a temporary filter. The water lilies were left in for shade. A large mechanical and biological filter was added a few days after the picture was taken in July of 2005.  |
 The water lilies thrived in this large tub or pool right along with the little koi. The home made filter can just be seen at the top of the picture. They grew so fast one had to be removed to see and feed the fish. |
 Some of the parents of the fry. These are all 4 and 5 year old diamond scale butterfly koi. The pond is approximately 800 gallons and contains 6 koi. 10/05.  |
 A complete water change was done in late August and the pool lined with a heavy duty shipping liner. It also added another 150 gallons making the koi fry pool 650 gallons with a 750 GPH pump. The shubunkins were separated from the koi and put in their own smaller ponds to grow out. |
 The
rest of the koi in the 2000 gallon pond. These are a mix of short
fin and butterfly koi. All scale types. One is a rare blue
mirror koi. 10/2005
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 10/2005 |