Good News!

My Kois had spawn again for the third time in three years.

Actually I force or induce them to spawn this time.

Took out other kois except for three biggest one. One of them is a butterfly.

Set the heater to 74 degrees.

Now five days later, ten thousands eggs in the 75 gal tank.

Looking at the eggs, it seems like only 3-5 percent unfertilized.

Added a some antifugus drops, hopefully this helps.

Bad news is lots of work ahead with hatching brime shrimps and feeding.

I am already so busy with feeding five different tanks now.

Pondandfish

Picture of some eggs

Goodness me 10,000 eggs!!!!!!!!!!!

I will be very happy with 10-20 good offsprings.

Whos has time for so much fish.

First koi spawn, couple of thousand eggs hatched. Too much to handle and end up with 70+ kois.

Pond and Fish

Did u sell ur kois at all?

No, too much work to sell.

Still trying to get rid of the distint smell of spawning. yuke!

Hate the smell of fish in the house.

I give away kois to friends and family.

Most of them don't want any fish.

Doesn't your LFS want to buy them?

Update on my fry.


Setup was four different tanks with different water qualities.

Main tank- lost thousands of fry on hatch day(s) with keeping 75% of the old cycle water from the tank. Cleaned now and restocked. (the smell was killing me)
I was disappointed at first with the 99.9% died fry from this tank. But soon after was shock by the numbers that made it in the other tanks.

Tank 2=Eggs separated to new tanks with 50% or more fresh water was good.
Tank 3=Eggs separated to new tanks with 75% or more fresh water was even better.
Tank 4=Eggs separated to a 100% cycle water was best.
This tank had fish in it. I had relocated all the fish and place a plactic plant with eggs into this tank. The fry seems to be in the best health with well cycled tanks.

The current number of fries is between 1000-1300.

The die off rate for tank 2 and 3 is about 2-5 a day.
I can not tell if any die in tank 4 because is a decorated tank with gavel.

Two week old fry update tank 1 of 2.

Uwaaw look at all those fries!!