. . . just saw this. Don; you're outta control!

 

Cyber,
I know your area, so I looked at those hills for any ravines showing the fault line. Can't see any. When the quakes hit, won't your fish go flying out of the pond? You can explain this to the non-Cal members.

 

LOL,.. Hollister sits on a active fault so we have many small quakes (most you can't even feel) every day. I'd rather have many quakes than one big one. Also the pool is now netted so no more Hirakura koi!!!

Don

Whats up Big B!

 

3# koi does not hit concrete softly...

 

I know Koi are high maintenance to raise, and full grown/nice coloring ones are sought after. So would you say it's a good investment to build a nice size pond and raise them to sell? I've thought of doing it in the past, but heard about the difficulties in maintenance, also heard if you raise koi to be very large and and get ones with very nice coloring that they can sometimes go for almost $1,000. Must my info comes from he says/she says so could you chime me into that?

 

Poor jumping fish How deep is the pond going to get?

 

Honestly Koi keepers are more about JDM than any import car scene

Domestic Koi do not have as much value as Japanese.

On top of this hurdle you need alot of $ for land, filtration, containment, food, chemicals for desease, ect and time for culling (Koi have thousands of fry that have to get thinned out to get the best ones, maybe only 20-50 quality the rest are destroyed).

Avg Japanese Tosai are $20-$50

Larger Koi are $100-$5000 Avg

So far the most expensive Koi sale on record was $500,000.00 I believe.

IMHO Koi farming is not worth the $ unless you really love it.

Don

 

5' all around, no more shelves or beach enterance. Currently the deepest area is 3.5'-4'

 

Beaches are pretty... is this so the big birds can't stand in the water?

 

oh boy that's gigantic. post a pic of your beautiful house. me curious