Eggs And Thousands Of Them

[saph.st24]

hi all
i thought i would share my news
today i became a koi mum
after 3 years of trying i finally have koi eggs
i got up for work today heard splashing and thought the goldies are at it again and off to work i went ,well got home from work tonight and the hubby says we have eggs, so i said yeah i heard the golides at it again
so hubby then tells me no we have koi eggs and theres thousands in the vortex.
so like a demented fool i run out into the garden at 1am and opens the filter and there they are the long awaited eggs
so tomorrow i will harvest the fertilized eggs and hopefully manage to raise one or two koi eggs ,lucky i kept the hatchery from the goldy babbies i have raised in the past,so i now have to start maturing filter media for the long task of koi fry rearing and i cant wait

 

[afishdude]

Fantastic!!!

You will be surprised how fast koi develop.

I highly highly suggest raising as many as you have tank space for. Fish shops will usually give you $1 each for juvie (2") Koi. If you can get 100 to 2" you just made $100!!!

 

[vfg10]

wow thats cool
do you have some pics??

 

[saph.st24]

hi
i have taken some pics dont know how good they are

well the eggs are ok upto know just a waiting game to see if they will hatch

 

[Amanda 61]

hi
i have taken some pics dont know how good they are

well the eggs are ok upto know just a waiting game to see if they will hatch

Fantastic news!!! Well done, hope you can get lots of little ones!! It will be great to see them grow and see what colours they develop into.

 

[saph.st24]

i'll be happy if one or two hatch
i'm not doing it for profit im doing it just so i can say ive done it

this is dad

(black and white)is mum

thousands of eggs in the filter mostly unfertilized most of them had been flushed when we dropped the filter to waste

and the hatchery

 

[bae1994]

good luck

 

[afishdude]

When they hatch they will feed on gunk in the tank so make sure you squeeze some filter gunk in the water for them.

 

[saph.st24]

hi
if and its a big if some do hatch as dad is young and i dont think he knew where to put himself lol
i will do like i did with the goldies let the algea grow on the inside of the tank and will also feed a high protien powdered food once they have used up their egg sack so usually start feeding around 3 -4 days old

 

[saph.st24]

well found one maybe two babies i think i keep counting the same one lol
they started to hatch today
lets hope i can keep it alive
these pics pushed the super macro to its limits they are so tiny

 

[afishdude]

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

 

[saph.st24]

thanks afishdude

my god i was just getting the pond back to normal when what happens smudge goes and spawns after 4 years of her being fat i thought she was never going to do it,
the eggs where every where worst then last time every thing was white the pond ,filters filter media go a few pics and got a few pics of the first babies
the pond stinks and the foam

one of my 3 day old babies

 

[afishdude]

WOW! Somebody was busy in that pond!

 

[saph.st24]

yeah very busy

 

[saph.st24]

hi
all well got a second spawning of a different female and now have some of her babies in the tank
i can sit and watch hem for ages they are so much fun to watch they do 0-100mph in the blink of and eye lol