Big Day for Holmeswood Koi

Well it was an early start today at Holmeswood Koi and what a big day its been so far.

Today we planned out to net the baby fry what hatched just over 6 weeks ago.

We have been told it isnt possible to produce so many quality Koi in England.

So we set out to prove everyone wrong its been done before and now we have done it aswell with magnificent results !

This one picture alone explains alot. The fry are around 1" long and in total we roughly think there is around 40-50 thousand fish in total.

If you look here at all the fish we caught from the first drag with the net.

All the fry have come from the Matsunosuke bloodline. 1 large female Matsunosuke Kohaku, 1 large female Matsunosuke Tancho Sanke and 3 male Matsunosuke Kohaku's.

Once we netted all the fry out the mud pond we then put them into a number of retainer nets in one of the quarantine systems ready for selection.

Then the selection began, Barry started selecting through the fry and seperating the best ones from the lot and removing any deformed fry. And hes still on with it now.

You can already see at just 6 weeks old that the Fry are looking magnificent.

Well thats all the pictures for today but there will be more to come as we have more fry what hatched 3 days ago

Keep checking the blog and website for updates.

We are also very happy to say that Holmeswood Koi is now a working Koi Farm in the North West of England.