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    Thread: My Koi Bred!!!!

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      Yeah!! More Eggs!!!

      After dinner I look in the pool and found eggs! I've been busy trying to find malachite green which no store seems to know exists! So I had to buy Ich Away which contains Malachite Green that I used last year. So now I have beautiful blue water!!! I bailed water and replaced water until my back ached but was fortunate enough that the hose water was pretty much the same temp. as in the pool. Hopefully they'll all be healthy eggs and hatch!

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      Here's a pic of one of the many eggs with eyes! If they're healthy, they should hatch tomorrow, day 3 correct?
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      I just checked and found at least a dozen fry hatched!!! I know more are hatched that I can't find because one of the spawning material was loaded with eggs hardly has any. They are so cute. I'll post pics later. They look the same as the fry from the first hatch.

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      Here's the promised picture. Within a small area I've counted 65 fry so far
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      Grats . I raised my first few last year and it was really fun. They are all pond mutts but it was just fun raising them. Hoping to do it again this year with the 12' intex pool I purchased to raise them in. Well good luck and enjoy.

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      Here's another pic. Within a small area I counted 100 so there's at least a couple hundred in the pool!!
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      I measured them and they are 1/4"! Lat year, they weren't nearly as big as they are now at only a day old!

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      what are you feeding them?
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      For the moment they are getting string algae and algae wafers. I have ordered micro worms that should come in soon. I was going to hatch my brine shrimp eggs but they won't hatch. I tried when my first koi eggs were laid but only two hatched after five days. So if you have any advice on hatching brine shrimp eggs I'm all ears!

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      80 degree water will hatch them, the colder the water the longer they take to hatch. Air and salt also, like the directions state...
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      How do you keep the water at 80 degrees? I just weighed down the bottle of brine shrimp eggs in the pool to keep it at the same temp as the pool water which was always in the 70s last time.
      When can I remove the spawning material? They're made of boiled plastic bags torn into strips and it looks kinda trashy with torn plastic bags floating around.

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      I would get it out of there, might be unfertilized eggs that are decaying and adding ammonia to the water.
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      I have updated my website so it has what's happened so far with years koi breeding. Here's the address: www.koijazz.webs.com

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      Quote Originally Posted by Cowiche Ponder View Post
      koijaz..your koi spawned..not bred...
      When the koi spawn, do you have to get the eggs out of the pond? Will they hatch if you don't? If you don't put that medicine mentioned on the eggs will they all get fungus and die? I am all ears as my 2 males started actively pursuing my female yesterday. And I would like to be prepared. Thanks ahead of time!

      I don't know if this is the right place to put a question. I've never done this before. So if I am in the wrong, please forgive me; I'm new.

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      If you have plants are other spawning media in the pond, the koi will lay a lot of eggs on those and you can pull them out when they're done breeding if you want to save any eggs. If you want fry and you leave the eggs in the pond, the fish will eat most of them. I move my male(s) and female to a separate pool where they can breed and the fry can be raised. All my eggs got fungus since I didn't put any source of malachite green in, but my female laid eggs again, I added the malachite green, and presto! you have fry! Let us know if you have anymore questions!

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      Where can I purchase the malachite green? Thank you,

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      I can never find a bottle of pure malachite green, so I use Ich medication that has malachite green in it instead of pure malachite green at a pet store. Then again, I live in a small town so they might just not have a large selection at our store. If you look on line you can probably find a bottle of malachite green.

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      I checked the water with test strips and the nitrite is at caution, I think it said 0.5. Anyway, I don't want it to get any worse. Any ideas on how to do a water change? The pool is on a cement slab that's only a couple inches off ground level so I can't get the siphon to work since it depends on gravity. Also, there's brown algae gunk on the bottom which I suspect is causing the nitrite problem. So I scraped it off the bottom and swirled the water around hoping the filter will pick some of it up. At the moment, I am getting a tiny bucket, dipping it in the water, check to see if any fry are in it, release any fry, and dump the dirty water into buckets. I so far only have time to fill two two gallon buckets. Any tips would be great. Also, I think my micro worms are crawling up the sides so they are now available to the fry.

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      I measured the fry and they are now 1/2 an inch long! I think they grow 1/16 of an inch a day.

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      I have lots of micro worms. The oatmeal looks shimmery because the worms are clear and constantly moving. The fry are a tad bigger. Hopefully with live food they'll grow even faster.

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