Koi breeding usually happens in the morning and can last for several hours.The male koi will push the side of the female koi causing her to release her eggs all over the pond, water plants and spawning medium you’ve provided. During the spawning process is when the female koi will start to release all her fish eggs which some will not get  fertilized. If you don’t remove the female and male koi from the pond once they are done spawning they will eat the fish eggs. Yes, she deposited 100,000 or more fish eggs but your koi will quickly consume them if left in your breeding pond.

Koi breeding

Learn all you can on how to breed koi fish, what is the best spawning material to use for breeding koi and some tips and technique for breeding koi. Through the research and questions you ask here is how you will increase your chances at a successful koi breeding and the results you achieve. For all those koi enthusiasts out there I wish you best of luck with your koi breeding and please feel free to comment on your success or failures.

In order to tell the difference between male and female koi they first need to be old enough.

Here are the differences between male and female koi:

1. Male koi are slender and like a torpedo shape.

2. Female koi fish are usually fatter at the abdomen. When viewed from above you can see they are wider and rounder.

3. Male koi fish have breeding tubercles come breeding time. These are small white spots specifically on the gill plates. Don’t mistake these for ich.

4. The biggest way to tell the difference between male and female koi fish is come breeding time. When koi fish begin to spawn and lay eggs you will see the male chasing or courting the female. If you see a koi bumping the back end or side of a koi it’s a good chance that it’s a male.

Knowing the sex of koi fish is exciting as many pond owners can’t wait until they start to breed. Breeding koi fish is very neat to watch and new baby koi are always a bonus. Next time you look at your pond fish see if you can tell the difference between male and female koi.

Koi fish have been around for centuries where they were first seen throughout Europe and Asia. Koi also known as common carp come from the species name Cyprinus Carpio. The common carp is a fish with grey colouration. But soon after koi were seen in China and Japan where they were seen in streams and were discovered in the farmers rice fields as well. Back then the farmers seen that some carp had some colours to it and soon began to be quite popular with the farmers. Once they noticed this, they began to take quite a bit of interest in koi fish.

Koi are actually known in Japan as the warrior fish. They symbolize koi as a symbol of great strength. All throughout Japan and China koi became ever popular and people began doing paintings of koi as well. In Japan there consider these fish to be living jewels.

Koi go way back in the 17th century when they were first started to be bred by the Japanese. The Japanese are the ones responsible for the many popular varieties and colouration of koi fish that we see today. Through there interest in these carp they began to breed them and develop different varieties. In much of Japan developing koi began a family business as they strived to produce the best looking koi with different patterns and colours. In Niigata, Japan, koi breeding is highly known for and is where farmers really actually began breeding and developing koi fish.

It wasn’t till the 19th century when koi fish really took off in popularity. Many more farmers began producing koi and thus they developed tons of different varieties of koi. The most popular one was the kohaku koi fish which is very sought after today which is one of my favourites. The kohaku is a koi with white and red patterns. Some have very distinct patterns that are beautiful and koi fish enthusiast pay top dollars for these. These once wild carp were used as a source of food before now they have become a major interest for people throughout the world.

In the twentieth century is where koi fish really took off. It became popular throughout the world. It was here where some very popular koi varieties were produced. Through selective breeding process the Japanese developed pure bred koi, or pedigree lines such as ki utsuri, ginrin, and Showa sanke. These koi are truly remarkable of the excellent colouration and patterns that they developed. Koi popularity still began to rise and people throughout the world began breeding koi. Still today the best looking koi fish still come from Japan and China.

Breeding koi is not just the simple process of putting a male and a female together so they can mate. The Japanese have studied and learned the best selection process that produces the best looking koi fish. Breeding koi is an art that the Japanese have mastered. The top koi still come from Japan today and I have seen fish go for many thousands of dollars. Some koi enthusiast will pay big money for new varieties of koi being produced. Some people will pay $10,000-$20,000 for one koi. That’s crazy, how much these koi can be sold for. But remember these koi go through a major selection process and only the best koi fish are kept to grow out. I once saw a purebred koi go for $100,000. Now some people will pay that much for koi but that’s a little steep in my books. In Japan koi are sold everywhere’s, people even sell koi along side of the road. Koi is much in abundance here and many many families main source of income is from nishikigoi.

Koi are sold throughout the world today, you can get them at pet stores, local koi breeders or online koi websites much throughout the world. You can buy koi at pet stores starting around $10-$20 and up. On koi websites is where you will see many purebred koi being sold and they go for many hundreds of dollars. Koi fish is a hobby and your paying for perfection, but as I know as well as you know, every hobby has a price limit. You decide the koi for you. Koi fish are truly living jewels in your garden pond and really make your garden pond come alive.