Help name my koi please

[Hypancistrus-zebra]

I have a few koi that unfortuanatly dont have names, please help me name my friends. Also I would appreciate the japanese names too. Thanks!

Gin rin?

Hariwake?

Utsurimono?

Hikari Utsuri?

 

[TJcanada]

pic#1 - looks like a Hikarimoyo-mono variety(metallic koi)

pic#2 - Scaleless Kohaku

pic#3 - looks to be a Ki Utsuri - or a Kin Ki Utsuri(hard to tell if it's metallic or not)

pic#4 - seems to be a Kujaku*Hikariwake*

 

[goldfish freak]

I think the first one is a Kohaku with gin rin scales. By the pics I can't tell if it has glitterly ginrin scales. In those pics in looks like a plantinum ogon with a few red markings, although I know that this is not a variety. Sorry not good at naming other peoples fish.

 

[Hypancistrus-zebra]

Kewl thankyou guys!

Yeh the 3rd pic does have metalic scales.

Im not too good at naming fish either hopefully someone else could think of good names?

 

[goldfish freak]

Hey just thought of a name for your fish in the first pic. What do you think of Cherry Blossom? It just came to me when I looked at you fish again.

 

[Hypancistrus-zebra]

hmm sounds good

I do think that 1 is female. I was thinking something like pillow, or cloud or something, lol i was well off!

thanks bud, keep em coming!

 

[goldfish freak]

LOL! Pillow, Planning on sleeping with the fishes?

 

[JeffP]

Hypancistrus-zebra,

Nice koi. I have to leave shortly but will try to get back to you later to help identify your koi.

Can you tell me a little about your koi pond?

 

[Hypancistrus-zebra]

Well it started as a compost heap.
I wanted a pond for AGES, cause I loved fishin and had a fasination with fish. So on holiday my parents agreed I was allowed a pond, cause I spent the whole time drawing it.

Got home, and pritty much started digging straight away... 2ft down, and a year later, I started again. I took about 1 1/2 - 2years to do... I was young and lazy.

My parents wern't expecting it to be so big, but at only 1000 gals its a small koi pond! Umm heres a few pics...

My mum wants to put silk lillies in, you know the kind you buy at the garden centre? I aint having it tho!

Ill get a pic of the whole thing, and what it looked like before

You know of OASE? Thats the filter + pump Im using.

BIO SYSTEM 3 set 1

 

[JeffP]

Very nice. I wonder if your parents can talk to my wife. Maybe then she'll give the OK to build a pond. Although I'll rent a miniexacavator