Fry cull

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Fry Culling

This morning at Holmeswood Koi we have been dragging the growing on pond ready for culling this years koi. Photos will be up soon for you to all see the progress.

Fresh Batch Arrived This Morning

A fresh batch of the ever so popular Sansai Biorex arrived this morning from Holland.
1 Litre Bottles £16.49
5 Litre Bottles £54.95

Get yourself down to the store and try some out.
Its great! all our customers using it agree.

Special Offer!

How about a great deal ? we have 1m x 1.2m sheets of top quality Japanese Matting on offer for only £25.00 a sheet.

come into store today to see what other great deals we have to offer

Fresh Stock of Acers

Just arrived, a fresh stock of Acers granite lanterns and various other plants.

Pond Paint is the next best thing to Fibreglass

Pond Paint from Ask Coatings, Theres alot to be said about this product. First of all i want to mention its probably the next best thing on the market to Fibreglass. The product is only a fraction of a price of Fibreglass and is every bit as good. Possibly the best pond paint i know of, from hearing the reviews of our customers what have used the product, and from experiance of using the paint myself i give it 5 out of 5. The paint is actually a 2 part waterbased paint, so when preparing the paint to be used you basically mix the hardener in the top tin, with the paint in the bottom tin, stir well and add water to the fill line, you can add a little less or more water depending on how thick of a coat you want to apply. the paint comes in various colours such as, black, blue, green, clear, red and grey. also comes in 1ltr tins, 2.5ltr and 5ltr tins. the 1ltr tin will cover 5-7sqm depending how thick of a coat you apply. Costing only £23.50 a litre.

New Van Signage

The new van is now coming to life with the all new sign writing.

Fresh coat of paint has really brought the Gate to Holmeswood Koi back into life with new signs either side.

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New signage !

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Oase Aquamax Eco Premium Pumps in stock at a low price!

We are now stocking the all new Oase Aquamax premium pumps, at a low low price, these pumps have been matched to the lowest price found online. As we are also an Oase 5 Star Stockist buying one of these is with ease, if you ever experiance any problems with the pump we are able to replace the pump for you there and then, providing a proof of purchase is shown and the pump is in stock, which they usually are as we always keep a wide range of pumps in stock all year round.
Now ill move onto all the interesting facts about the pump. Starting of with the Eco Premium 12000, first of all the beauty of the Oase pumps is that they come with a 3 year standard guarantee, but once registered with Oase you recieve another 2 years, totaling to a 5 year guarantee, not a lot of other pump manufactures will offer such a guarantee. Even being such a powerful pump, the Aquamax Eco Premium is only 110w which compared to other pumps is a very low wattage. Also the pump comes with a 10metre power cable also, and can give upto a 5metre head. As for the 16000 version of this pump all is the same except it is 145watt, due to being a bigger pump again.
And last but not least here's the prices of these pumps, 12000 model rrp £498.99 our price £379.99 and the 16000 rrp £559.99 our price £429.99. If you require more information regarding this pump, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Sansai Biorex IN STOCK!

A fresh batch of Sansai Biorex arrived in store yesterday, in ltr and 5ltr bottles.

There has been a slight increase in price from last year.

1lr bottles no £16.49

5ltr bottles now £54.99

Call 01704822359 to order yours today.

Fish Room Restoration

Well no posts have been made since July last year, thats just how busy weve been over the winter months. Well here you go, some nice new photos of our freshly restored fish house. We have brought some new life into Holmeswood Koi, we have added an extension onto the back of the fish house with a double glazed window overlooking our outdoor mud pond. Also adding the extension has given us the oputunity to bring the 2 nexus and Sansai Shower filters running the two rear display tanks indoors. A fresh coat of paint has really brightened up the whole room, and removing the old Japanese style pagodas also opens up the room and enhances the viewing of the koi. Finishing two of the pond walls using a graphite coloured K-Rend has also given a very modern and well finished look to the ponds. Below is a bunch of photos i took this morning for your viewing pleasure.

There you have it, now why not pop into store and see it for yourself and see the magnificent selection of koi from Japan and ones we have bred ourselves from top quality Nishkigoi from Niigata Japan. And a huge selection of dry goods, such as pumps, filters, feed and treatments from leading manufactures such as Oase, Hozelock, TMC, Kusuri and many more.

Were open 7 days a week 9am - 5pm monday to saturday and 10am - 4pm sunday. Call us on 01704 822359 for any information. Situated in Holmeswood Lancashire L40 1TX. About 15 minutes from J27 of the M6.

Fry Cull No2

Well the start of the week went well.

We decided it was time to go through the fry again for more grading.

We set out to drag the net through the mud pond again to catch all the koi ready for selection.

Once we caught all the koi into the sein net we then transfered the fish into a small holding tank ready for selection.

When we where moving the fish over we where pleased with the results as a majority of the fish we selected from the first cull had grown on superb.

Heres a small amount of some of the baby koi whilst they where being moved to another tank and in just these very few koi there is some absolute crackers.

Once into the 3 retaining nets we then started grading the koi. 50% of the koi have been returned to the mud pond for growing on and the other 50% are on sale in store now.

If you read about the other baby fry in the previous post they are coming on really well also that would be an interesting mix to see what comes out. Where hoping for a good range of chagoi in them.



More Progress On Baby Koi

Below is a link to a short clip of the baby fry feeding on Aquamaster Growth feed soaked in water.

I would embed the video onto here but for some reason i cant so clicking to the link below will direct you to the video on Youtube.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htMz8Nl7zEo&feature=mh_lolz&list=HL1310487780

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.

Pond Rebuild

Last week we where out rebuilding a pond in Formby, and the finished product looks brill. Shame it was raining when we planted it up this morning though. Typical english weather !

Heres what it looked like when Scott & Barry went to clear it out.

Then it was time to empty it, and what a job that was there was that many Marginal plants in there was only about 5 gallons of water in there.

We then realised the PVC liner had gone very brittle so we set out to completely rebuild the pond.

We then used Greenseal EPDM Rubber liner, along with fitting an Oase Filtoclear 20,000 Filter along with an Oase Aquamax Pump and an Oase Aquarius Fountain Pump.

We also did away with the old liner underneath the Slate water feature and installed a new plastic basin and a Hozelock Cascade Pump.

And theres the finished product!