But I found them. Had lunch at Peking North and of course, deposited them on the bench seat instead of into my purse. It took me a while to figure this one out—and it was Jane who remembered this restaurant.<\/p>\n
We found a reasonable pond store locally. And ended up with a new koi. She’s the same size as our average. Her name is Maddy. She’s a pearl white with butterfly fins, ie, a long-fin, and very reasonably priced. Baby koi tend to be around five to twenty dollars depending on quality. The adults with show markings can cost a mint. But the kicker is—you don’t know what the markings are going to be until they grow, because new spots are always turning up as the fish acquires more rows of scales. So you can make good bets based on lineage, but you’re not certain until they’ve reached a certain size. Grant, for instance, started with an orange head and white body with black speckles, but in the last month his orange head has acquired inky black and rather attractive spots that make him quite distinctive. Ichigo, who has a bright scarlet spot on his head and a white body with black spots, has gotten a second red\u00a0spot\u00a0 on the side of his head which looks as if it is going to be red and black. They’re like Easter eggs: you never know what’s going to develop. Ari was sold to us as a platinum, but she isn’t: she’s a cream metallic. Amy is gold and staying that way. And Denys started out all orange, but is now getting bronze metallic scales all over his back.<\/p>\n
So…not too bad a day.\u00a0 The others immediately welcomed\u00a0Maddy in, and she’s tootling about with great energy and at high speed: she’s lived all summer in a barren\u00a0stock tank, and now she’s got a 4000 gallon pond with water lilies and algae and worms and a waterfall. She’s found the filter basket, found her way to food, and since our pond abounds with worms and algae, she’ll join the others in growing like a weed. We are aiming at only one more koi, a bekko type, red and black. But that will be next spring. And after that we will have all the koi we can possibly\u00a0handle. You should have seen the horses that occupy the store’s pond. A good two feet long and as thick as a man’s forearm.<\/p>\n
It’s 66 degrees today, in mid-August, with an uncharacteristically strong wind nearly constant. Very pleasant out, but you need a jacket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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