Recently Engel Kromhout van der Meer conducted an interview (via E-mail) with Yoshikigoi’s Jos Aben. The first snippet of this interview can be read on this page.
We will be translating the rest of the interview shortly. However we thought it would be nice to tease you a little bit…
KoiQuestion Engel:
Hello Jos, nice of you to participate in this e-mail interview. We already met on the farm in Poland in august this year. During that you mentioned the necessary upcoming expansions of the farm, such as building a state-of-the-art koihouse to be able to keep more of the harvested koi indoor. Whilst we were e-mailing building koihouse had started. Would you be so kind to tell how things are progressing?
Yoshikigoi Jos:
Time flies and so does the progress of our new building. The first section, the part we wanted to finish this year, has indeed been finished as planned. However this is only a quarter of the entire planned new facility. After the complete realization of this project the koi house will be 100 x 20 meters. The 2013 section is 40 x 10 meters.
KoiQuestion Engel:
How many ponds will this koihouse contain and how much water will there be in those ponds? Could you make an estimate of the number of koi that will be kept in this building?
Yoshikigoi Jos:
This part of the facility will contain 8 individually filtered ponds of approximately 50.000 liters each. This means a new indoor facilty of 400.000 liters. The number koi swimming in them will be depending on the sizes of the koi we will be placing in the ponds. The first 4 ponds are currently inhabited by 5000 tosai. The other four were “filled” with around 350 nisai per pond. Do not forget that we already had another koihouse containing 550.000 liters of water so this expansions almost doubles our capacity.
During the next couple of weeks we will be translating the rest of this interview.
Sources: KoiQuestion & Engel Kromhout van der Meer