It’s been a while since I posted anything regarding the home-made koi pond, so I’ve decided to take some pictures on the big fat koi fish swimming in it. It turned out that focusing fish under water isn’t exactly trivial, but I think I’ve managed to captured some decent photos anyhow.
As usual, the fatter ones are most likely female, while the more skinny and graceful kois are males. These kois are approaching 2 feet in length, and getting pretty heavy too. It’s been a little less than two years since the completion of the koi pond project and thankfully the fish are growing healthy and fat. Shouldn’t you build a pond too?
More photos at my flickr set.
two kohaku (red and white koi)
tancho (white koi with a red dot on its head, in this case not a perfect tancho)
showa (red, white, and black koi with some black color on its head)
chagoi (olive koi)
yamabuki ogon (metallic yellow koi)
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- Koi Pond – Pond Appreciation by Neighbours
- Koi Pond – Swimming!
- Koi Pond – New Fish – Chagoi
- Koi Pond – Filtration System and Plants
- Koi Pond – Brick Wall
By Ah Pek on Jul 16, 2007 | Reply
Nice!! fat and shining. At this size, it’s going to worth a fortune!
By cookies_cream on Jul 16, 2007 | Reply
wow~! the olive and metallic yellow koi looked humongous! They looked so pretty and healthy and colorful!
About the Kota Kinabalu trip..I didn’t know ppl sell puffer fish until you blogged about it..yikkss!
By ipohchai on Jul 16, 2007 | Reply
the koi looks perfectly nice
By VaLz on Jul 16, 2007 | Reply
Female ones are graceful too okay. And they are cuter than the male ones!
By Tummythoz on Jul 16, 2007 | Reply
Beautiful & so prosperous looking!
By cyber-red on Jul 16, 2007 | Reply
huahhh so zen-likeee
By Kelvin on Jul 17, 2007 | Reply
deep fry and pour garlic oil with coriander
By KY on Jul 17, 2007 | Reply
Kelvin
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By FA on Jul 18, 2007 | Reply
tancho picture so best! look like painting!
By saikua on Jul 18, 2007 | Reply
they taste better steamed or deep fried?
By ec on Jul 19, 2007 | Reply
i’m a koi lover too
i must say yr kois are absolutely beautiful!
how did u manage the filtering system? cos i see your water really clear…any tips?
By KY on Jul 19, 2007 | Reply
ec,
You can check out my filtering system at the Koi Pond section of this blog, it’s all there.
Once you set it up nicely, it doesn’t take too much effort to keep the water healthy and clear
By xiulongbao on Aug 2, 2007 | Reply
nice looking koi! my dad used to have 4 (really really big) in his man made pond. 5 yrs have past n now only left one
Sad…
By Acey on Nov 18, 2008 | Reply
Damn nice DIY thru out the whole Koi Pond section, KY. Most ppl just pay for services but DIY FTW.
By KY on Nov 19, 2008 | Reply
xiulongbao,
Now I only have 4 too!
Acey,
Thanks thanks
By chia weng yan on Apr 13, 2009 | Reply
hey KY,
I notice that your koi pond has changed quite a bit. Mind taking up some picture and posting it ? I love fish ponds.. i build 1 of my own too.. Cheers,