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my Koi spawned over the last two week ends I moved some of the egg
bearing algae into a kiddie pool. cheking it this morning i saw at least six 3/8 babies I dont know if there are more hiding in the big pond or not yet -- John Rutz Z5 New Mexico never miss a good oportunity to shut up see my pond at: http://www.fuerjefe.com |
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----- Original Message ----- From: "John Rutz" Newsgroups: rec.ponds Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 11:28 AM Subject: babies my Koi spawned over the last two week ends I moved some of the egg bearing algae into a kiddie pool. cheking it this morning i saw at least six 3/8 babies I dont know if there are more hiding in the big pond or not yet Congratulations new daddy!. I wish my koi would spawn. But I do have goldfish and koi in the same pond, and some of my baby goldfish do have almost-koi coloration (but no barbels). |
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John,
In the pond, very few survive. The koi love caviar after a good breeding. I usually end up with about three a year that survive in the pond, but I haven't seen any this year, and this years spawn was a major spawn. Eggs on every surface, at least one egg deep, liner, plants, buckets rocks surrounding the pond, in the pond, out of the pond in the air. I salvage a few hyacinths and lettuce and move them to a Rubbermaid stock tank as a nursery. I probably have a couple hundred from about 3/8 inch to 1 1/2 inch. They are fun to watch grow. Some are starting to show some pattern, but none of the red has come up. It will probably be late September before I decide which stay and which go to the LFS. Look into one of the flake feeds from AES, page 125. I feed the spirulina about 4 times a day. -- RichToyBox http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html "John Rutz" wrote in message ... my Koi spawned over the last two week ends I moved some of the egg bearing algae into a kiddie pool. cheking it this morning i saw at least six 3/8 babies I dont know if there are more hiding in the big pond or not yet -- John Rutz Z5 New Mexico never miss a good oportunity to shut up see my pond at: http://www.fuerjefe.com |
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Congrats Papa John!
"John Rutz" wrote in message ... my Koi spawned over the last two week ends I moved some of the egg bearing algae into a kiddie pool. cheking it this morning i saw at least six 3/8 babies I dont know if there are more hiding in the big pond or not yet -- John Rutz Z5 New Mexico never miss a good oportunity to shut up see my pond at: http://www.fuerjefe.com |
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RichToyBox wrote: John, In the pond, very few survive. The koi love caviar after a good breeding. I usually end up with about three a year that survive in the pond, but I haven't seen any this year, and this years spawn was a major spawn. Eggs on every surface, at least one egg deep, liner, plants, buckets rocks surrounding the pond, in the pond, out of the pond in the air. I salvage a few hyacinths and lettuce and move them to a Rubbermaid stock tank as a nursery. I probably have a couple hundred from about 3/8 inch to 1 1/2 inch. They are fun to watch grow. Some are starting to show some pattern, but none of the red has come up. It will probably be late September before I decide which stay and which go to the LFS. Look into one of the flake feeds from AES, page 125. I feed the spirulina about 4 times a day. -- thanks Rich a week after the spawn I cleaned a lot of the algae from the pond it still had quite a few unfertile eggs in it, I have two farily large pumps pumping into the veggie filter, last year I found about a dozen 1 in fish in the bio filter so I *may* have quite a few in the veggie bog if they got as far as the pumps If so I wont see them for several weeks probly not till next fall when evey thing goes dormant John Rutz Z5 New Mexico never miss a good oportunity to shut up see my pond at: http://www.fuerjefe.com |
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Hank Pagel wrote: Congrats Papa John! "John Rutz" wrote in message thank you John Rutz Z5 New Mexico never miss a good oportunity to shut up see my pond at: http://www.fuerjefe.com |
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