I usre am not into breeding koi.....I have enbough to do with the
tropicals I breed and sell. What happens with the koi happens with
them. I intend to use large mnouth bass as a means of control to keep
from getting over run. The bass can eat the koi just as easy as they
can catch and eat bream......plus we also BBQ koi on the grill from
time to time, and its actually better than bream or bass is, and gives
catfish a run for the money as well.

All have been between 6 and 10 inches in length, and were raised at
the local Koi farm near Opp Alabama on the Pea River. They even threw
in a bunch of extra and wound up with approx 700 or so, and some of
those were quite larghe (12-18 inch size.) All given a once over as
they were acclimated form the farm water in my concrete burial vault
tanks I use for rearing up catfish and as QT tanks. ONce they wewre
acclimated they were netted and released in the pond. Muddying the
water has never been a problem with my other two ponds which also have
lots of koi in them, and this is mainly due to their depth.

Pond is stil too new to let them forage as there is not enough natural
stuff there, but I usually always and intend to feed just the same. I
get feed at a local feed mill that mimicks Rangen Koi food and its
less than $8 for a 50# bag.......certainly better than not feeding or
feeding them catfish food or worse yet Special Kitty cat food as some
do. Its actual ornamental pond fish food for gf and koi without the
huge mark up.


On 28 Dec 2006 18:48:49 -0800, "Phyllis and Jim"
wrote:

I take it they are in your big pond.

Will you be breeding them or selling them? Will you be feeding them or
letting them forage?

What size are they? How muddy is the water?

Jim


Tristan wrote:
in it and doing just fine......thank you!


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I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know!



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I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know!