"Phyllis and Jim" wrote in message
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How many koi do you have in the pond?

* In the 2000g pond I started with about 16, maybe 18. I don't remember
anymore as it was years ago. Each year I removed on or two as they grew.
There are now 10, both short-fin and butterfly. The 800+g pond as 3 adult
butterflies and a small koi I kept over.

How is it that your fry do so
well?

* There are loads of plants in both ponds. They fry stay in the plants until
they're about an inch long. Then one day a school of them will be seen
venturing out into open water. The adults completely ignore them! They
soon learn to come out at feeding time for their flakes and/or crushed
pellets. :-)

Ours get eaten...tho I suspect it is the gambusia rather than
the koi that get most of them.

* I have never seen a koi eat a smaller fish. Perhaps if they were
starving...... I would think it's the gambusias.

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RM....
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rec.ponder since late 1996.
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