Post your pictures and sizes to be eligible for the growout prize

[Zac Penn]

You guys need to post your pictures showing the sizes of the fish you received. Remember this is a growout competition so the person with the most average growth after six months will choose whether they want an aditional Chagoi or Ochiba that I have growing out with me.

Start a new thread in this forum to poste your pictures and update it every once in a while.

Zac

[BillJ]

Any one else still in this? My biggest bailed out and I'm not sure where I stand.

Bill

[slmtrm]

Any one else still in this? My biggest bailed out and I'm not sure where I stand.

Bill

Sorry........They just don't look as big after they shrivel up

[BillJ]

Sorry........They just don't look as big after they shrivel up

So....you out?

Bill

[BillJ]

Just saw your other post. Guess not.

Bill

[BillJ]

You guys need to post your pictures showing the sizes of the fish you received. Remember this is a growout competition so the person with the most average growth after six months will choose whether they want an aditional Chagoi or Ochiba that I have growing out with me.

Start a new thread in this forum to poste your pictures and update it every once in a while.

Zac

On what date does it officially end,Zac? My tank's 64F. Maybe I need to add heat and feed heavier. I have to make up for one loss that,you said,counts,right? I must factor in the dead one? Dang! Why didn't I measure it prior to disposing of it?

Bill

[six6guy]

I thought he said six months, but I don't really care... just let us know.

Brad

[slmtrm]

Just saw your other post. Guess not.

Bill

I'm still kickin and chucking food


BTW Some just want to get really broad and fat....Any ideas how to stretch them out My lone Chag is definately not short But the soragoi no longer looks like a football koi......it is now officially a basketball koi

[Zac Penn]

Well if we wanted to go by the 6 month deadline then that would be Feb. I thought I said that you did not have to average in the suicidal fish.

If anyone has a problem with this we can talk it out, but here is my thinking on it...
Extra fish were added into each persons order to cover if a fish died during transport. Take the largest of the fish provided that add up to the total number of fish ordered...IE: If you ordered five fish, you probably got 7 fish in the bag, take the five largest fish and use them for the competition.
Add the total before length of your five fish.
Subtract the before length from the total finished length and divide that by five.
This will be your average growth per fish ordered.
Who ever has the highest growth rate per fish wins!!!!

So if you had a suicidal fish, then use one of the extras in the competition!

How does that sound?
Zac

[six6guy]

February is fine... say Valentines day?

The average idea is a good one. Pictures required would keep us all honest... well that and I want to see them.

I think I lost an extra, a tancho kohaku, in the new QT but I'm not 100% sure. It's possible for me to loose one if they are in the drain line when I do a water change, but only the smallest ones can go there.

Brad

[slmtrm]

Well if we wanted to go by the 6 month deadline then that would be Feb. I thought I said that you did not have to average in the suicidal fish.

If anyone has a problem with this we can talk it out, but here is my thinking on it...
Extra fish were added into each persons order to cover if a fish died during transport. Take the largest of the fish provided that add up to the total number of fish ordered...IE: If you ordered five fish, you probably got 7 fish in the bag, take the five largest fish and use them for the competition.
Add the total before length of your five fish.
Subtract the before length from the total finished length and divide that by five.
This will be your average growth per fish ordered.
Who ever has the highest growth rate per fish wins!!!!

So if you had a suicidal fish, then use one of the extras in the competition!

How does that sound?
Zac

Great

Couldn't I just measure the same fish 5 x's






just kidding Btw on some can I measure the girth rather than the length

[Zac Penn]

February is fine... say Valentines day?

The average idea is a good one. Pictures required would keep us all honest... well that and I want to see them.

I think I lost an extra, a tancho kohaku, in the new QT but I'm not 100% sure. It's possible for me to loose one if they are in the drain line when I do a water change, but only the smallest ones can go there.

Brad

You way want to attach a sock net or laundry bag to the output line from the SC and ADR to make sure if a fish goes down the waste line they will be caught by the bag before heading to the sewer.

[Zac Penn]

Valentines day sounds good to me. Yes pictures of each fish that is measure will be required. Not to prove that the measurements are correct but so we can see how they all turned out. Seeing as how we only have like four people competing out of thirty that ordered, the more pictures the better.

Zac

[Zac Penn]

Here are some updated pictures of the fish I am growing out. It is amazing how much of a difference there is in some of the sizes.

[slmtrm]

nice

[slmtrm]

Zac
We're awaiting the official announcement of the results
plus pics and size of the one's you grew out

[Zac Penn]

Yeah...Sorry about the delay! Everyone did a great job growing these little buggers out, but they must have something in that Alabama water that makes them grow just a little bit bigger. So it looks like Alabama wins the NCAA National Championship in football and in fry husbandry!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am really slammed with some small remodeling jobs (THANK GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) So I did not have much time for my little ones. They do have some great potential, but they aren't very large. I have one nice Ochiba that is about 8-9", a chagoi that is about 12", another Chagoi that has really nice reticulation at about 10-11". I will try to get pictures this week for you. I have really hard water so a few tiny shimys are showing up on the soragoi, and ochiba, but they will go away with softer water. I will be in touch in a day or two with pics.

Thanks to the three of you that actually participated, and I am sure there will be other opportunities for fry grow outs this year.
Zac

[slmtrm]

Yeah...Sorry about the delay! Everyone did a great job growing these little buggers out, but they must have something in that Alabama water that makes them grow just a little bit bigger. So it looks like Alabama wins the NCAA National Championship in football and in fry husbandry!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am really slammed with some small remodeling jobs (THANK GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) So I did not have much time for my little ones. They do have some great potential, but they aren't very large. I have one nice Ochiba that is about 8-9", a chagoi that is about 12", another Chagoi that has really nice reticulation at about 10-11". I will try to get pictures this week for you. I have really hard water so a few tiny shimys are showing up on the soragoi, and ochiba, but they will go away with softer water. I will be in touch in a day or two with pics.

Thanks to the three of you that actually participated, and I am sure there will be other opportunities for fry grow outs this year.
Zac

It's all about the TANK man It's all about the tank


More water=bigger fish

[stephen]

[slmtrm]