Tue. The koi

photo: koi

We have about 20 koi in our little pond.
When we built our house 30 years ago, our son was 2 years old. One day, he came back from his friend’s house and he told us. ” I want a pond in my garden and I want to have some koi like my friend.” At the time, he was the only child in our family, we loved him very much, immediately, we decided to make a pond, so we had to pay 300,000 yen for the pond. This cost was more than our pay for the month, but we were happy to see his joy. The next spring, we begun to have koi, those koi were quite attached to us, we loved them, but spring had come, and when the snow thawed the koi were dead. We were disappointed, so then we had to buy some more koi, and we had to shop for the koi every spring. My husband found the cause of the death, it was the water control. So he made a purifier, and then the koi didn’t die, but they grew over 80 centimeters.
When we feed food to the koi, they had a habit of swarming to our step, we can feed the koi from our hands.
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