koifishgirl
Koi Kichi
Feb 22, 2005, 1:29 AM
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Re: [NewbieMom] What am I seeing?
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Hi This is what I would do if I were you. Go get u a 1000 gallon inflatable swimming pool they dont cost that much. Wash the pool very good about 3 times to make sure you have got all chimical out of the pool. Fill with your pond water if you can or clean tap water and decolrnate if you have to. Place you a small pump in the water and get you a drum to make a filter for the pool. You can place a piece of the filter mat on top of a crate and hold it down with a big rock or something heavy. Make sure you put your hose at the bottom of the drum and let the water filter up through the mat as this will help filter the water. Lean the drum over the top of the pool so water will return to the pool. Put your female in for a few days by herself and dont feed her, just make sure that you put the pool somewhere that the water does not get to hot. Shade if you can. Put in some water plants or nylon ropes that you have seperated for her to spawn on, and then in a couple of days put the male in with her. They tell me that they will spawn in about 24 hours after this, then take both male and female out of the pool after they have spawned and keep female away from the male a couple of days to let her rest up and loose the scent that she has or the other fish will drive her crazy trying to spawn her.
Once you have got your spawn then you will have to make sure that you will have enough food to feed the fry, I would get started when you start the spawning process of raise some brine shrimp the feed the fry. After about a week you can take a blender and take pelets and ground up to feed the fry into a powder. Make sure you put something around the pump as to not suck the fry into this. I plan on building a frame using pvc and putting a fine mess net aroung the pump to keep fry out of pump, This should work so have fun with the fry. And keep us posted ok.
There is all kinds of info on the net that you can find about raising koi fry. Just type in what you want to know and you will find all the info you need. Feed her a high protein deit before you spawn her as this will help with the quality of the fry and will help them to be stronger.
Judy
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Looks full of eggs. Good luck 