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CliffandJoann
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Jul 23, 2002, 1:40 AM

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Hi Everyone, Our Koi babies are 3 weeks old yesterday. The range in size from 1 inch on down. The majority are gold in color, and a few are darker. The mother is a pure white butterfly as far as the Pop(s) I'm not sure. I do have a bright yellow koi so could this possibly be the Pop? Or not. I read the threads that said the colors come later. Please define...at what age and/or size do the colors come out. What about the barbels, when are they visable? Is our growht rate for 3 weeks average or not. I am asking this because someone said at four weeks they could grow as much as four inches. A four inch growth rate in four weeks does not seem possible to me.

We have the babies divided into three aquariums and have six in a makeshift container in our main pond and we just put about 20 into our small pond which serves as a biological filter for our main pond. All together we have about 50 - 60 fry. we are feeding them brine shrimp, tubi-flex worms and ground fish pellets.

Any help or advise you can give us would be appreciated. You can see the mother on our website, she's a beauty. We love her that's why we are so excited about her babies her name is Silver.

Thanks, Joann http://www.homestead.com/backyardpond


SMW1
Koi Kichi

Aug 15, 2002, 11:38 PM

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Hi,

I've not been on for a while, but I just noticed this thread is almost a week old and no one has responded.

ok lets start form the top.

I doubt very much that koi would grow to 4" in 4 weeks. At the start of their lives I woul dsay the average growth rate for a 4 week old koi is about 1". I also have 50 baby fry which at a couple of months old are most black and some have gold heads and fins. The balck and the gold will develop within the first 2 year of the kois lives. The colour will then start to settle down.

My koi are a mixture of hanna shusui and full scale fry. The mother was a yamabuki and he father a shusui.

Barbells will become visable after a month or two. Depending on their size.

What you are feeding your koi is fine. You can also use fry gel or fry flake, which are especially made to imrpove the growth and coulour of your fry.

Stuart


coopy
Koi Lover

Jun 14, 2003, 7:40 AM

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SMW1 is right, i have many baby koi from last year and they are now around 3inch in length and still gold and black. The full colour has still not come out in them yet. over the past couple of months they have just started to surface feed with the big boys Cool


BranMuffin
Koi Kichi


Jun 14, 2003, 8:17 AM

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Hey Joanne! How U be?

Your growth rate is actually very good. The average gowth rate of koi (in the optimal conditioned pond) is about 2 centimeters per month, which is about 2".

I think I would be somewhat terrified if I saw a koi grow 4" in one month and throw that sucker in the bay. If a koi grew 4 inches a month, just think how big that thing would be in only One year. 48 inches! Lookout Jaws! That koi would be a JUMBO in 7 months!

I forgot the question Unsure Must be old age Pirate Oh yeah!

Of course your plain colored (ie: Ogons) fish will show up first, generally within the 1st month, then the ones with sumi patterns and other colors follow two or three weeks later. The Kohaku is a late developer, and it can be very deceiving because you think it's just a white fish. Kohakus are also the slowest growers, in addition to being the last ones to show colors and patterns.

It not uncommon to see a Kohaku just developing after they're over 2" or 3" long. They are also the weakest fish at the beginning, and easily subject to fading hi, especially if the Hi shows up suddenly.


In the other forum I showed you pictures of my little home bred Kohaku. I have two of them and that was exactly what happend. I was ready to cull them out but they were too hard to catch in the pond, so I left them. Sly Surprise, Surprise!

Take Care

Best Regards
Bran

A Koi Pond is never FINISHED, it's always subject to improvement.
Drives the Spouse Crazy!

(This post was edited by BranMuffin on Jun 14, 2003, 8:34 AM)


Koidan
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Jun 22, 2003, 10:24 AM

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Well i dont know much about Koi's but when my Koi's were about 4 inches there colors came already. I think it varies.....so just be patient.



P.S

Wow butterfly kois! Can I keep 1?Sly

 
 
 



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