On 08 Jul 2003 01:00:22 GMT, (LisaCS1) wrote:

At last month's meeting/auction, I purchased one Shishu Koi and two Butterfly
Shishu Koi. I placed them in a quarantine tank and the very next day, one of
them spawned.

Needless to say, within a few days, I had probably a couple hundred babies
swimming around. The babies are still in the quarantine tank with floating
hyacinths & parrots feather.

- Any idea how many might develop into butterfly Koi?

Many.

- How long does it take to develop butterfly fins if that's what they are?

As soon as you can focus on them you'll be able to tell.

- Is algae enough for them to eat or should I also feed them something else?

For now algae is fine, all I ever did was crush koi food to a powder.

- What do I do with all these babies?

I gave a lot of mine away and grew out a few and gave them away later. I've
kept 2 babies from spawns. One is a very very long fin butterfly orange &
white, the other is orange and black with most fins like a butterfly but a
shorter tail. ~ jan

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