I`m looking for a suitable Japanese name for my new koi.
I can`t think of anything suitable or original so I thought I`d throw it open to you lot. ;o)

So, Name My Koi....

Cheers

Steve

P.S. I`m posting a picture in the gallery

Ok... here's my contribution:

ƒoƒiƒi

(banana)

actualy its a lemon ogon.

Not being picky AJC, but she is actually a Chagoi. Ogon have only scales to the upper of the lateral line to my knowledge, whereas my nishikigoi is fully scaled. Like a common carp is, would like one of those too!!!

Nice name though, looking for something a little spitirual or from Japanese fokelore. Like a Warrior name or the like.

Any ideas.
Steve

Just found a frog in my front room hopping around like mad.. placed him in stream area. picture to follow.

:0)

I was going to suggest Bubbles!
I'm afraid all I know about Japanese names is Pokemon which probably isn't much help!

Perhaps I should ask my wife, she is Japanese after all and probably knows what kind of names Japanese fish "should" have (apart from "sashimi" or "oishi-sou", hahaha)

I doubt very much if thats a chagoi, chagoi are all one colour as chris says, the colour does vary, from greenish, to mud brown, even to a light golden brown almost yellow, your fish has light petchal fins, they may even be white or metalic, chagoi may have clear or lighter outer lines around the fin tips, but the first part of them from the body is always the same colour as the fish, chagoi dont have mixed colourd fins, in all chagoi i have seen their body scales are clearly defined too, only change is a gin rin, witch is still all one base colour but with a few shining scales across its back, the scales on your fish are all the same and blend in with the body colour, which is the ogon classification.

I am inclied to stick to my opriginal call, I still think its a lemon ogon.

Just a thought.. tell me yours

Steve

Koi is growing rapidly and starting to get a sort of metallic shimmer to his scale pattern, although he is still very yellow in colour. He seems to have become acclimatised very quickly and is schooling with all my other fish, even though he dwarfs them all. Still not got him to feed from the surface but i`m sure that will come in time.

What things should be done for over wintering koi??

Steve

Still not got the blighters to feed from the surface, any suggestions???

Please help

Steve

What you need to do is sit by the pond in sight of the fish for as long as posible each day, so they are used to you being there, after they realise you wont net them again they will come up each time you visit.

Another quick way, is get a (proper chagoi) in the pond LOL you will see a difference in the koi behaviour in a day or so, they really do make a difference, but you need a chagoi of the same size or bigger, smaller ones dont always have the same effect.

But a breed called ochiba will have the same a effect, they are a cross between a chagoi and a soragoi, so you get a mix colours, which is from brownish green and blueish grey similer to kohacu pattens.

AJC fish do feed from bottom and I have been using floating pellets to try and tempt them to the surface. They don`t seem to have any interest in them although when I come back an hour later or so the pellets have dissapeared, do they dissolve??. When i drop a few maggots into the pond it provokes a feeding frenzy with the koi usually winning. I have started to drop a few in every day just to get a feeling of security for the fish. Soaking maggots in water for a while makes them float also so I am going to try putting a few floaters in with the sinkers in an effort to get them to come to the surface. Do you think this is a good idea??

As for getting another Koi, I don`t think it would bee too fair on the other fish as yet, mainly because I dont want to overstock the pond.

koi do produce more waste than goldfish, but I dont think other fish make them "skittish" I put a few small koi (2.5") in with my goldfish to grow on a bit before putting in the koi pond, they even had the goldfish feeding from hand, there was a chagoi and ochiba in the bunch to tho, and those fish have a remerkable calming effect on all fish it seems.

Steve, that was my point, your koi will happily feed from the bottom with you there but from the top, they are not used to you being near the pond so they wont come up and feed till you leave, you need to stay there a for a while each day until they are used to seeing you there at feeding times, then eventually they will come up to greet you each time you go there, the only other way that doesnt take ages is to add a chagoi or ochiba etc, so if you dont have time to spend by your pond then it may take a long time before they feed on the top with you watching.

is it one of the new clssifications? I am assuming the red/orange body is the benegoi bit, the gin rin is lust that so cant see what makes it benegoi.

And that link is the only link i can find any refference to a benegoi, I think they made it up lmao i did a search in the practicle fishkeeper page and the koi carp magazine search and that came up blank too.