I posted a little while back about my 11/2 -2 1/2" baby koi, which
have been getting skinny. With your suggestions about food there has
been some improvement, but 2 are still not doing great and are still
thin, though slightly improved. These fish were $1 each, are very
domestic, and will probably not be beautiful fish. I just thought it
might be fun to grow them out a little and maybe give them away to
some newbies. I really am not inclined to spend a bunch of money
trying to find the perfect fry food. I am very inclined to just put
them in the fish populated pond and see if they will do better on
algae and submerged plants. My only slight reservation is that I have
read occasional references to 'skinny disease', which I don't know
what it is. I have had them at least 10 or 12 weeks now and still see
no obvious signs of any problems other than their growth. I don't
really want to throw them away, so to speak, but I am ready for
natural selection to take it's course.
Anyone see any red flags with this approach?
Thanks
Bill

Our hatches always have runts that do not thrive. They are generally
identified by lacking full or rounded bellies and by looking skinny
and by not growing well. Could be that is what you have.

Phyllis

On Apr 20, 2:37 pm, Phyllis and Jim wrote:
Our hatches always have runts that do not thrive. They are generally
identified by lacking full or rounded bellies and by looking skinny
and by not growing well. Could be that is what you have.

Phyllis

That certainly could be the case. The biggest one and the smallest
one seem to be doing fine, especially the 'big' one, but the two in
the middle have what I would call concave stomach areas. I know they
are eating at least some and currently they seem an energetic as the
others. I realized after my post that I am less concerned about this
being a 'disease' since they have been in a 20 g tank for 3 months or
so and it doesn't seem to affect two of them. Still I am not
certain. If no one sez to the contrary by Sat. I think I will just
walk on the wild side and relocate them.
Thanks for the response.
Bill

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:49:08 CST, humBill wrote:

That certainly could be the case. The biggest one and the smallest
one seem to be doing fine, especially the 'big' one, but the two in
the middle have what I would call concave stomach areas. I know they
are eating at least some and currently they seem an energetic as the
others. I realized after my post that I am less concerned about this
being a 'disease' since they have been in a 20 g tank for 3 months or
so and it doesn't seem to affect two of them. Still I am not
certain. If no one sez to the contrary by Sat. I think I will just
walk on the wild side and relocate them.
Thanks for the response.
Bill

Very likely they will do better out in a pond than in an aquarium. Do check
the pH and temp. so as not to shock them. Adjust the tank inside to the
pond. ~ jan
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