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Breeding Koi Fish – How Many Fish Eggs Can A Female Koi Lay During Spawning Season?

Koi Fish Pond Expert — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 07:06:44 +0000

Koi fish are excellent breeders and a female koi can easily lay over 100,000 fish eggs come spawning season. Breeding koi fish is among every pond owners interest sooner or later. When your new in the hobby and as you gain more knowledge and expertise with your koi hobby you’ll eventually want to see baby koi fish hatching and swimming around your pond. What koi owners need to know is that even though a female koi fish can lay over 100,000 eggs when she spawns many will not survive. Once the male and female koi finish spawning in the early hours of the morning usually they will start to eat all the koi fish eggs quickly. In order to breed koi fish you need to know everything you can to be successful.

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.

Kohaku Koi Fish From Japan – High Quality Japanese Koi For Ponds

Koi Fish Pond Expert — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:33:40 +0000

Kohaku koi fish are among pond owners favourites especially the high quality kohaku’s you can buy from Japan. Kohaku kois are just one of the varieties of koi that people are able to buy from some local pet stores, koi fish farms or online koi stores. The colouration and variations in patterns of red and white displayed on the koi are amazing. Kohakus have been my favourite type of koi for years now and they look amazing in ponds. Kohaku koi fish have a nice snowy white and bright cherry red that truly are living jewels of the orient.

Japanese koi are some of the best koi you’ll ever see and many people seek them out to have nothing but the best high quality koi for their ponds. Some kohaku kois especially Grand Champions from koi shows goes for many thousands of dollars. Serious koi hobbyist come from all around the world to see the best koi fish at these shows. There are many types and varieties of koi but the kohaku koi is the one I truly love in ponds.

Take a look below at a beautiful photo of a kohaku koi.

What do you think of kohaku kois? Is this one of your favourite types of koi fish too? If not what is your favourite varieties of koi that you enjoy seeing in garden ponds?

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My Big Koi Fish Died – 18″ Long and 10 Years Old From Illness

Koi Fish Pond Expert — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:44:00 +0000

Yesterday one of my favourite koi fish died which I was sad to see. This koi was around 10 years old now, which I got from an old guy who didn’t want to have his koi fish pond anymore. I’ve had this koi fish for about 4 years now. I know for the last week or so he wasn’t eating and this koi was acting very lazy. All of my other koi fish were eating fine and the koi were nice and healthy.

This koi could have died from old age as everything was fine water quality and there was no signs of fish diseases as well. I know as a result of my koi not eating he started to slim down and some of the koi fish scales were seen throughout my indoor pond as they have been falling off. This was one of my biggest koi’s which was around 18″ long. I was hoping that this koi would have lived longer but unfortunately died. I knew something was up and I even noticed that the koi fish colouration was fading. His colour faded as you can see in the koi pictures below of my koi.

My koi really slimmed down in his last few days. I’m sad to see this koi die on me but it was an older koi and had a good life while it lasted. This was one of my biggest kois I had, that’s why I was a little attached.

Koi Fish – How Big Do Koi Grow Depends On Size of Pond

Koi Fish Pond Expert — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:45:00 +0000

People often ask and wonder about the size of koi fish and how big koi grow. The answer is really not a definite size as there are many factors that influence the size of koi and how big they will become.

First of all, if you are growing koi fish in an aquarium, they will only grow to the size of their environment. When I say this it doesn’t mean that if your tank is a foot long, your koi will grow to be a foot long as well. Picture that, it would look pretty sad, your koi wouldn’t even be able to really turn in the aquarium. What I mean by this, is that it will only grow to the potential of its environment. What happens with growing koi fish in an aquarium it stunts their growth. So your koi won’t grow to be as big as they should. The environment plays a big part on the growth of your koi.

Second thing that plays a huge impact on the size of koi fish is nutrition. Are your koi getting the best nutrition they can be getting? Also how often they are being fed as well determines the size of koi.

When koi fish have a large environment to grow in such as a koi fish pond and the proper nutrition, koi can grow to be quite large. I would say koi generally grow to be about 15-24″ long but koi can grow to be larger as well. Factors include nutrition, what your feeding them and the size of your koi fish pond. If you have a large pond and its deep as well I wouldn’t be surprised of your koi growing larger. There are many ways to increasing the size of koi and improving koi fish colours as well which I will talk more about later.

Here is something I want to share with everyone. People are always interested in the size of koi, well you need to see this. Check out this picture below of a koi fish that I seen, it’s truly remarkable.

Look at the size of that Kohaku koi that he is carrying. That’s huge! If you look at his face it looks like it weighs quite a bit as well. Koi fish can grow very big, this koi is a prime example of why growing koi fish in mud ponds works so well.

Check out the size and width of this koi. The width is twice the size of his forearm. You can tell by the size that these koi fish were well fed in the mud pond.