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Dec 27, 2006, 9:45 AM
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Hi Ghoz,
All yours are noted and hopefully we could meet @ sometime.
If you wish to upgrade your koi, it's advisable to fill your pond with koi only and also with almost similar sizes to give a fair distribution of the food amongst the fish and nicely watching them grow.
Useless to buy and keep finished koi because you may end up watching their qualities faded away including deformities of the bodies.
I always try to breed my almost "finished" kois (70-75 cm and up) and wishing to get almost equal offsprings to the parents, which is anyway a very difficult assignment. I usually end up with thousands of 'mono color' fish no matter what variety the parent koi are.
Now I am waiting for the hatches of my 3 sets of newly bred kois (ochibas, kohakus and kujakus), and expecting the babies to come up within 1-2 days more and by end of next January I might be able to see what I could get. From around 120,000 eggs of three sets, I expect min 20 pct to hatch and 60 pct out of it to survive reaching one month old. And from around 15,000 fries, the cunning cull will leave out almost 90 pct and remaining fish after 1st cull would be about 1500 only (and I have to feed them all  ). By the end of 2nd month, next cull will leave only about 100 fish to be kept till another 4 months.
I will pick the best 10 of this 100 and the rest are to be exported to Germany via www.koi-collection.com.
Per fish could be worthed around 200 euro (6 month old/+/- 30 cm) and the revenue could pay some of my maintenance cost.
The ten koi that I picked for my own collections are usually prepared to enter the domestic koi shows.
If she (or he) could win some prizes during the shows, then my total satisfaction is completed.
And I will start next breeding season.
That's my particular hobby of keeping koi, to reproduce and reproduce again.
Happy New Year!! chester
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