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Whats Goin on (too much?)

2:35 PM, Jan. 31, 2008 .. 5 comments .. Link

My sig on the angelfish forums( a friend made it for me)

Lets see I am working on layout out editing for the FinTAStic Feb07 issue. I was chosen to be secretary of the standards committee. I am working with a fellow TAS on a manual that we hope to have done at least the rough draft by mid march. Plus taking care of the fish milking the goats. You know all that fun stuff

Show pics

9:41 PM, Jan. 30, 2008 .. 0 comments .. Link

Well I did ok 1st and 2nd in my class I alos got to judge a few classes had alot of fun and came home with like 40 more fish more picture to follow

Us

9:40 AM, Jan. 25, 2008 .. 3 comments .. Link

This is all of us

We still miss YA Tink

8:08 PM, Jan. 24, 2008 .. 1 comments .. Link

A drawing I did of my late baby Tinkerbell. It is my favorite of the three drawings I did last week. I still miss her and think of her everyday her picture is on my door on my blog and my Avatar on a forum so I see her everyday and miss her.

I am setting up for a fish show tomorrow have to get all my tanks ready and such I hope I do good I am planning on showing five fish at least this show is not 4 hours away so i can risk it and take some top fish

Goats bllaaaaaaaaaah

9:19 PM, Jan. 22, 2008 .. 1 comments .. Link

Well I have been to the goats breeders all to often this fall winter hopefully today was the last time here is firefly enjoying the 2 hour drive

and here is the buck he is long earred a Nubain lol the short ears of mom are dominate though

they should be COLORFUL

How Do U Like Me Now

8:04 PM, Jan. 15, 2008 .. 2 comments .. Link

A drawing I did of my fish How Do You Like Me Now today Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

him attacking the cat to guard his eggs yeah he jumps out of teh water

Well some pics

5:21 PM, Jan. 13, 2008 .. 1 comments .. Link

I took this one on friday evening we where working in the woods getting cedar posts for a fence job I just love this warm weather we had. Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

and this one was at the same place (different spot) saturday Some from a walk on wedensday Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

How Do You Like Me Now who has a show in two weeks and looks pretty sharp Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

Well Sorry it has been tooo long

10:18 PM, Jan. 6, 2008 .. 3 comments .. Link

Well lets see I was helping some friends move to Ny state near Cooperstown the end of the week. It is about 5 hours away from here and about 6 from where they used to live it is beautifulk country up there I have some pics I will show you when I get them. On wedensday the high here was 12 yeah cold milking the goats. was fun here are a couple pics of me milking not when it was 6 out though Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

and the ducks Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

I will hopefully get and chance to lookat your blogs tomorrow and update mine more often. It is supposed to be in the 50's until thursday so I am glad about that. Have fun God bless Isaiah

Well Looks like winter is here

6:38 PM, Dec. 8, 2007 .. 3 comments .. Link

Well here is a picutre of the trees taken on 12-2-05. We had a icestorm sunday nite monday morning. and we got about ainch of snow yesterday. My dad and I where working about a hour away from home and had fun driving back in it. They did someskating on the pond yesterday. I might go out later tonite I love skating in the dark. I forget everything when I am skating it is sooooo wonderful. Sorry I havn't been posting much the end of the week was pretty busy. Have a great day Isaiah

another picuture I took last sunday on the walk

ORANGE OH YEAH

6:40 PM, Dec. 1, 2007 .. 1 comments .. Link

I found a deal last week on Aquabid a online fish auction site which I have bought most of my fish off of well. They had 9 breeder size koi from one of the best lines (didn't know this at the time just thought they looked good) plus some other fish for 50 dollars I jumped on it these fish where probably worth close to three hundred with the one of the fish being worth at least 50 by him self Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

I paired them up on tuesday and yesterday two of them spawned making them worth at least 100 dollars Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

the new pair

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

11:55 AM, Nov. 22, 2007 .. 2 comments .. Link

I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving. I have so much to be thankful for. All my animals my family, and my friends etc.. I hope you all have a wondeful day Isaiah

Some up and Comers at my hatchery

7:45 PM, Nov. 20, 2007 .. 3 comments .. Link

A Gold Marble Ghost bred at my Hatchery Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

A home bred koi. Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

A turq from another breeder I currently have fry from four different spawns with the biggest spawn being about 300 fry from the pair a couple post down this spawn if all goes well could be worth over 700 dollars I will continue to try and get some pics of these little guys. They are hard to get good pics of at this size If I do I will share them Isaiah

Enjoying winter

8:41 PM, Nov. 12, 2007 .. 3 comments .. Link

Well I have gotten some comments about people disliking winter and such. I will be honest I am not the biggest fan of cold weather and winter. But I do make the most of the season God gave us. I love iceskating and sking and look forward to both of those things. So if you really dislike winter try and find somthing you can do to enjoy this season that God gave us better

Photos are of my brother skating and a sheep I used to have Isaiah

2 weeks same spot

8:44 PM, Nov. 7, 2007 .. 5 comments .. Link

I thought I would share these two picutures i took two weeks apart of the smae spot I think it is pretty cool tryiny to see the differences Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

Angelfish

7:43 PM, Nov. 5, 2007 .. 2 comments .. Link

Well I was thinking that my blog should be about the most exicting things that happen to me, my family and of course my animals. Alot of the time that might be a fish spawning as you see here Tim Mcgraw and Sunshine. Another nice spawn form her I paid quite a bit for her as part on another pair. Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

A picture of them laying eggs Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

and one of part of my bare bottom show tank. If anyone has any fish related questions feel free to ask me and I will try and answer them Isaiah

Show Time!!!!!!

7:03 PM, Nov. 4, 2007 .. 1 comments .. Link

Last weekend I went to a fish show in New Jersey I broought two of my angels and one took second place out of 13 angelfish I was very happy about that. Had a great time at the show. Here are some pics of my favorite fish there where there . ENJOY!!!!!!

The angel that beat mine to win first place

Two cichlids jawlocking in a vendors tank.

My friend Hillary's beautiful crowned pearlscale goldfish. This fish was bigger than a softball by quite abit. Probably the most photograhed fish at the show

The first prize Discus

A walk on a beautiful day

10:35 PM, Oct. 21, 2007 .. 4 comments .. Link

We went fo a walk on this just wonderfully beautiful day. I will let the pics take over Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

My life with fish part 1

6:47 PM, Oct. 18, 2007 .. 1 comments .. Link

Tim Mcgraw one of my top Koi Angel Males Here is part one of the Highlights of my Fishkeeping you are goin to have to really beg for part two and three MY EXPERIENCE WITH FISH HIGHLIGHTS OF MY UP�s & DOWN�s IN THIS HOBBY BY ISAIAH J. JENKINS PART ONE I have kept Goldfish 11 years and freshwater tropical fish for 7 years. I have kept 90 Species of fish and spawned 16 species successfully. Here are the highlights of my fish keeping experience. I received my first fish at age three a goldfish it didn�t live very long so I consider my fish keeping to start four years later. Two goldfish in a one-gallon bowl with an air bubbler (without a air bubbler they would have again died almost without a doubt I hate to think of what would have happen then that may have killed my hobby but they made it and here I am 89 species and over a thousand fish later). On e of the goldfish survived only a couple of months (he was than flushed due to the fact that we thought he was really sick now that I know a little more it was just a swim bladder problem from being fed to much dry food). So we bought another goldfish to replace the one we lost. The other one continued to survive in the one gallon bowl. We moved after I had the goldfish for about a year and we lost the new one to a swim bladder problem again. The surviving original one (her name was Queenie yes she did turn out to be a female) she continued to survive and maybe even thrive in the bowl for about 6 six months until we once again got her a companion. After I had had Queenie for about three years I decided it was time for a upgrade so I bought a ten-gallon tank and put the two goldfish in it and soon after I bought a black moor which we named Goggles he would later lose his eyes to a beginners mistake. A bout six months later they spawned my first spawning ever although I managed to hatch the eggs and raise the fry for a few weeks but they died. It remains to this day my most successful goldfish spawn. Soon after this my grandfather gave me another ten-gallon tank with filter and hood. This would actually prove to be a pivotal moment in my hobby which at this time was overshadowed by my chickens and sheep but I was about to jump into the hot tropicals and they would steal my heart way. Six months later an acquaintance (At this time I probably wouldn�t of considered him a friend more like an enemy don�t ask me why he is now the Vice President of DPFH and one of my closest friends) told me that he had some extra Guppies I told him that I had an extra tank of course I had to ask my parents they said yes (they probably regret it now) so the romance was on. So a week later after I had read all the information I had on guppies in every book that I had on fish at that time (which was quite limited) I still research quite a bit when I get a new fish so I got my guppies my first tropicals my first love there were about 15 of them from a couple of days old to about month old. A couple of months later when I was cleaning out the filter, I found a couple of fry I didn�t have a separate tank for them so they didn�t make it. About a week later I took a female out of the tank and put her in a net breeder she had 36 fry a couple of days later and I was a father (beginners luck I have had only had more fry from a guppy once it was the same guppy a month later when she had 46). A little while after this we went to a petstore actually I didn�t get to go in I was being punished I don�t know why oh maybe it was forgetting in a fight with one of my siblings on the way there I only had 5 than but now I have 8 wait I am getting off the subject. Well my brother went into the petstore with my mother while I had to go into another store with my father. My brother bought a albino cory cat. From that point on our collection began to grow at a rapid pace. That cory cat turned out to be a important part of my success. A few months later he spawned with a female that another one of my brothers had bought ( I was pretty slow to buy fish in the beginning of my hobby now I am killed by them for spending money on fish). So when they spawned we moved all the fish to another tank they spawned in a community tank (we had three tanks at this time). The eggs hatched and we managed to raise one of them DHFH was alive and swimming. The second spawn was more successful and we sold most of them to a fish store. In the fall of 2000 we had five tanks and we moved. DPFH had hatched (we changed our name from Deer Hill Fish Hatchers to Deer Path Fish Hatchers). The second day at our new location resulted in a minor accident while we were arranging our new room a book shelf fell on the fish with all the fish in it. Yes, they were in one tank water, fish, and glass flew everywhere luckily we didn�t lose a fish. While I am at it I have another tank shattering story. My brother and I were rough housing and his head hit a fish tank and the whole side of the fish tank cracked and water started pouring out luckily nothing was pouring out of his head. I have since learned not to. That there are to many breakable things (fish tanks) in our room for rough housing. The next step for me in this hobby was African cichlids. I t all started when a fish store owner asked me if I would like to have 5 newly hatched yellow labid fry I put them in a net breeder in my community tank. I than moved them to a ten gallon with some other fry I was raising and than I was in luck again one Sunday as we were driving home from a picnic we happened to take a side road and there was a thirty gallon fish tank on the side of the road. It had the words African cichlid written all over it. After we tested it for leaks (it didn�t have any) I was ready for African cichlids. By this time the yellow labids were two inches long and two had survived so I moved them to the thirty-gallon tank. A few weeks later we added two more labids one of them died but the other one thrived. A month later I added two more yellow labids and a small tanayikain cichlid (I still don�t know hardly any of the African cichlids names) and a trio of Numbis. After we had had the numbis for about a month they spawned becoming the first cichlid I had ever spawned. After 16 days I took the fry out of the mothers mouth. During this time we had gotten many more cichlids including a pair of convicts that spawned and raised fry in the tank. Then the yellow labids spawned 21 days later I took 16 fry out of her mouth. Than the biggest disaster in DPFH history struck. It all started with 4 seemingly healthy fish bought at petsmart a few days later they began to die and weeks later the other fish started to fade that�s when I started to treat the tank. After awhile the fish stopped dieing and thought I had beaten it. But a few months later it reared it�s ugly head once again. This time I was able to pinpoint it as a deadly protozoa. Nothing seemed to kill it. Out of 20 fish only one survived the ordeal.

Maine

6:51 PM, Oct. 15, 2007 .. 1 comments .. Link

Wow it's been awhile!!!! We went to my Aunts Wedding the weekend before last. Than on Sunday I went up to my uncles cabin in maine with some cousins and one of my brothers. Here are some pics I took. The water in this lake is the clearest in southern Maine I will try to post a blog at least twice a week.

Here is one of the huge fire we made

Meet JASMINE CLARE and the dumped duck

7:51 PM, Oct. 1, 2007 .. 2 comments .. Link

She is a five year old mostly Alpine doe with alittle nubian and Lamanche. She is a very good quality doe getting best of breed at a ADGA. She does have alittle bit of a attitude.

Saturday when I woke up there was a new drake in my duck flock we figure somone must have dropped him off he is a cute little gray call. Here is a pic of him

I also went to a fish show on saturday and should have some pics of that for you in a future blog God bless, Isaiah

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