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I have been reading about a experimental koi spawning on the british koi
clubs website. but his experiment was totaly controled has anyone raised baby koi in an outdoor kiddie pool and if so how much growth did the fry show and how fast I dont know whether t leave them in the kp or buy a small aquarium and move them inside -- John Rutz Z5 New Mexico never miss a good oportunity to shut up see my pond at: http://www.fuerjefe.com |
? baby koi
Hi, John: Your decision might also depend on how MANY fry we're talking
about. I harvested some eggs last spring (June) out of my pond, brought them in the house to a bucket of pond water and a light to keep them warm, and when they hatched I moved them into an awaiting fishtank with filtration, aeration, etc. The plan was to put them in the pond before winter if they were big enough, or keep them in the house in the tank through the winter if I didn't think they were big enough to survive the winter outdoors. Unfortunately, I didn't get to make that choice - by September the 20 fry I had in the 20 gallon tank were starting to die off - the babies were getting too big too fast and the water was killing them off, too many growing fry in a 20 gallon tank. I tried frantically to keep up with the water, but after losing my fifth fish, I decided the remaining 15 were going out into the pond, big enough or not. They were certainly dying inside, they had a better chance outside. Luckily for me, they all survived the winter in the pond. They were about 2" long when I put them outside in September. Sue "john rutz" wrote in message ... I have been reading about a experimental koi spawning on the british koi clubs website. but his experiment was totaly controled has anyone raised baby koi in an outdoor kiddie pool and if so how much growth did the fry show and how fast I dont know whether t leave them in the kp or buy a small aquarium and move them inside -- John Rutz Z5 New Mexico never miss a good oportunity to shut up see my pond at: http://www.fuerjefe.com |
? baby koi
Sue Alexandre wrote: Hi, John: Your decision might also depend on how MANY fry we're talking about. They were about 2" long when I put them outside in September. Sue "john rutz" wrote in message thanks June an aquarium it is then if i can get em up to 3/4 to an inch or so is all i need I can count 9 not sure if any others ( hard to count moving 1/4" fish ) John Rutz Z5 New Mexico never miss a good oportunity to shut up see my pond at: http://www.fuerjefe.com |
? baby koi
Sue Alexandre wrote: Hi, John: Your decision might also depend on how MANY fry we're talking about. They were about 2" long when I put them outside in September. Sue "john rutz" wrote in message thanks June an aquarium it is then if i can get em up to 3/4 to an inch or so is all i need I can count 9 not sure if any others ( hard to count moving 1/4" fish ) John Rutz Z5 New Mexico never miss a good oportunity to shut up see my pond at: http://www.fuerjefe.com |
? baby koi
John,
I move my tropicals in in the winter. If I don't build up the gravel bed filter by gradually introducing the fish, the bacteria are not up to the chore and I get an ammonia spike and dead fish. Koi produce more waste, but the principle is the same...lots of bacterial surface allows ok water. I use only subsand filters, 1 1/2" of gravel and power heads on my 80 gal Oscar tank. It does just fine with two full-sized oscars (14" and 12" oscars). The trick there is that the h20 cycles every 20 minutes. They do fine with a quarterly change of 1/3 of the water and vacuum picking up of the muck (small submersible pump pulling muck into an 8" aquarium filter sponge on its way to the pump). I take out the rocks, cut off the power heads, stir the gravel and heap it at one end. The muck settles all over, but especially at the low end. Then I use an aquarium vacuum run into the scution end of the pond pump to grab the muck. As I think about it, I could take a digital of the apparatus and send it to you. Net: Koi should do fine with sufficient filtration...especially a really good set of bacteria. Good luck J -- ____________________________________________ Check out Jog-A-Thon fundraiser (clears $140+ per jogger) at: www.jogathon.net See our pond at: http://www.home.bellsouth.net/p/pwp-jameshurley "john rutz" wrote in message ... I have been reading about a experimental koi spawning on the british koi clubs website. but his experiment was totaly controled has anyone raised baby koi in an outdoor kiddie pool and if so how much growth did the fry show and how fast I dont know whether t leave them in the kp or buy a small aquarium and move them inside -- John Rutz Z5 New Mexico never miss a good oportunity to shut up see my pond at: http://www.fuerjefe.com |
? baby koi
John,\
I have a 150 gallon stock tank that I used last year and am using again this year. It has the strawberry jar trickle filter for filtration. My spawn this year was the first week in June. The fry vary from around 1/2 inch to almost 2 inches. Last year I did my cull in late September, with a few fish put into the main ponds for the winter (heated), but most went to the LFS. I think some of them were about 3 inches, but some were still around 1 1/2 inches. I feed the fry about 4 or 5 times a day with flake food because the stock tank does not have that good carpet of algae that they would feed on in the pond. -- RichToyBox http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html "john rutz" wrote in message ... I have been reading about a experimental koi spawning on the british koi clubs website. but his experiment was totaly controled has anyone raised baby koi in an outdoor kiddie pool and if so how much growth did the fry show and how fast I dont know whether t leave them in the kp or buy a small aquarium and move them inside -- John Rutz Z5 New Mexico never miss a good oportunity to shut up see my pond at: http://www.fuerjefe.com |
? baby koi
John,\
I have a 150 gallon stock tank that I used last year and am using again this year. It has the strawberry jar trickle filter for filtration. My spawn this year was the first week in June. The fry vary from around 1/2 inch to almost 2 inches. Last year I did my cull in late September, with a few fish put into the main ponds for the winter (heated), but most went to the LFS. I think some of them were about 3 inches, but some were still around 1 1/2 inches. I feed the fry about 4 or 5 times a day with flake food because the stock tank does not have that good carpet of algae that they would feed on in the pond. -- RichToyBox http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html "john rutz" wrote in message ... I have been reading about a experimental koi spawning on the british koi clubs website. but his experiment was totaly controled has anyone raised baby koi in an outdoor kiddie pool and if so how much growth did the fry show and how fast I dont know whether t leave them in the kp or buy a small aquarium and move them inside -- John Rutz Z5 New Mexico never miss a good oportunity to shut up see my pond at: http://www.fuerjefe.com |
? baby koi
RichToyBox wrote: John,\ I have a 150 gallon stock tank that I used last year and am using again this year. It has the strawberry jar trickle filter for filtration. My spawn this year was the first week in June. The fry vary from around 1/2 inch to almost 2 inches. Last year I did my cull in late September, with a few fish put into the main ponds for the winter (heated), but most went to the LFS. I think some of them were about 3 inches, but some were still around 1 1/2 inches. I feed the fry about 4 or 5 times a day with flake food because the stock tank does not have that good carpet of algae that they would feed on in the pond. -- thanks Rich Im going to pick up a small aquarium tomorrow and move them in wher i can feed mmultiple times a dayu and monitor the water better the spawn was about a week ago so they are still rather tiny I just hope I can move them without hruting any :-) 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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