{"id":342,"date":"2011-05-14T18:39:27","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T18:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/?p=342"},"modified":"2011-12-24T16:09:54","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T16:09:54","slug":"more-koi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/2011\/05\/more-koi\/","title":{"rendered":"More Koi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two koi is never enough so I went to visit another Koi store in the metro Atlanta area. I had seen ads for <a href=\"http:\/\/splendorkoi.com\">Splendor Koi <\/a> in Marietta, GA; so I decided to take a road trip to see what they had. Splendor Koi has the best selection of fish in the metro Atlanta area. They have everything from tiny babies 2-3 inches up to some very large koi. Worth a visit if you live  nearby. The staff is friendly , the store well stocked, and organized. Good selection of equipment and other pond supplies. <\/p>\n<p>I could easily have spent thousands of dollars there but went hoping to find a few small fish. I picked up a 7-8 inch Asagi (my favorite type of Koi), one 3 inch gin rin platinum ogon, one 3 inch yamabuki ogon, and a 3 inch sanke. All were nicely formed and a fair price after a little bit of haggling. I am sure I will return to buy more in the future. Todays purchase: $220<\/p>\n<p>I also purchased Microbe Lift Defoamer. that stuff works great for getting rid of foam due to excess proteins. $27.99 for a large bottle, but you only need a little.<\/p>\n<p>Also went to petsmart and purchased some water conditioner to reduce my nitrates ($16).<\/p>\n<p>A fairly expensive day but I now have at least one of each of the major types of fish that I want. I will eventually add a shiro utsuri, a tancho, and perhaps a goromo.  <\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: the Platinum Ogon and sanke both died of bacterial infections. It was a wake up call to get rid of my bog filter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two koi is never enough so I went to visit another Koi store in the metro Atlanta area. I had seen ads for Splendor Koi in Marietta, GA; so I decided to take a road trip to see what they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/2011\/05\/more-koi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[18,22],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pond-budget","category-pond-news","tag-koi","tag-pond-addatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}