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Our natural pond:
Our latest addition
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Part of our heated quarantine facilities: 4 x 1000 liters, each with independent filtration.
Our mud dam with 200 Koi growing on - 42 m x 22 m x 2.2 m deep. 1.9 million liters of water with constant inflow of fresh water from a natural fountain, ... the Jumbo's are on their way.
Just finished ... almost. Fibreglass mould - 7 metres x 2.5 metres x 1.7 deep, 31 500 litres, busy maturing:
Our 2.5 meter deep pond - view through a 15 mm glass panel.
Our mascot and gentle giant: 90 cm
Floating our Japanese arrivals in June 2007 in our enclosed quarantine facility after their 42 hour journey from Niigata to Tokyo, to Amsterdam, to Johannesburg, to arrive at 2 o' clock in the morning at Cape Town International . 1000 liter container for each of the five breeders, with heating facilities and a lot of oxygen and salt.
How did the fish survive after such a long journey???
A state of the art new product called Allfish that is placed inside the bag and produces oxygen during the trip, remove carbon dioxide and absorb vaporized ammonia as well, thus stabilizing the conditions and four gel packs per bag to keep the temperature at 12 degrees Celsius.
Photo of the gel packs and the Allfish product.
Some of our other ponds at our premises in Table View
Pond 1 - Champagne
Pond 3 - Port
Pond 6 - Libertas
Pond 14 - Pinotage
Pond 13 - Riesling
Typical mud dam properly protected against Heron's and King fisher's, fully enclosed with bird netting.
Purachina's ready for sale (5 - 7 cm)
Stunning Kujaku's and Matsuba's just taken out of a mud dam.
Baby Kohaku's by the thousands, ready for the third culling. Only about 20% of the hatch will eventually survive the culling process.
Release of an Asagi into our mud dam until autumn when we will drag it.
KOI SHOW - Western Cape Chapter - 2007
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Grand Champion and Reserve Grand Champion WC - 2007
Some other beauties at the 2007 show:
The above Grand Champion Jumbo sadly died 30 minutes after the show due to Chlorine contamination.
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