How many of you have been transporting koi in bags and aat the end of your journey, or midway through it if your like us and you've been shocked to find that the water in which the one of your koi is in is the colour of blood?
If so or if you come across this in future do you know what to do?
"I can remember the very first time this ever happened to us", (on the way to our Section show ).
Talk about freaking out, we fair roared through the picturesque Devon village of Ermington on a sleepy Sunday morning.
At break neck speed we arrived at the trout farm where it was being held in plume of dust, both in a right old state thinking the worst.
Dave the venue owner wondered what our problem was and came rushing over to the car.
After telling him our koi's problem he exclaimed dont panic this is caused by stress, had the koi not had the bleed it may well have arrived at the show dead
Since that first ever bleed it's happened on around four occaisons.
For some onknown reason it happens to female koi rather than males,as to why all these years later I'm still unsure perhaps it's a mechanism to help them cope with the rough affair of breeding I dont know???
At a show the benching team team will give you special dispensationand thus allowing you to de-bag the koi without equalizing temperatures and will bench this koi last to give it chance to recover.
However if like us you do show koi then we would suggest that you retire the koi in question and give it pet status for the rest of it's days.
Our main bleeder is now 27 years old and is still going so in reality it's not done it much harm.
This can also happen to you transporting koi from where you purchased it, the road may be rough or you've not placed it across the axle of the car there are a miriad of reasons why this could happen.
If it does treat it the same way fore go the equalization period and get it straight into Quarentine
But remember too much stress can and will kill koi quit easily, so take the bends slowly, dont brake to hard, or drive to fast, try to find a smooth route home and you may never be troubled by this ever
rgrds
Dave
If so or if you come across this in future do you know what to do?
"I can remember the very first time this ever happened to us", (on the way to our Section show ).
Talk about freaking out, we fair roared through the picturesque Devon village of Ermington on a sleepy Sunday morning.
At break neck speed we arrived at the trout farm where it was being held in plume of dust, both in a right old state thinking the worst.
Dave the venue owner wondered what our problem was and came rushing over to the car.
After telling him our koi's problem he exclaimed dont panic this is caused by stress, had the koi not had the bleed it may well have arrived at the show dead
Since that first ever bleed it's happened on around four occaisons.
For some onknown reason it happens to female koi rather than males,as to why all these years later I'm still unsure perhaps it's a mechanism to help them cope with the rough affair of breeding I dont know???
At a show the benching team team will give you special dispensationand thus allowing you to de-bag the koi without equalizing temperatures and will bench this koi last to give it chance to recover.
However if like us you do show koi then we would suggest that you retire the koi in question and give it pet status for the rest of it's days.
Our main bleeder is now 27 years old and is still going so in reality it's not done it much harm.
This can also happen to you transporting koi from where you purchased it, the road may be rough or you've not placed it across the axle of the car there are a miriad of reasons why this could happen.
If it does treat it the same way fore go the equalization period and get it straight into Quarentine
But remember too much stress can and will kill koi quit easily, so take the bends slowly, dont brake to hard, or drive to fast, try to find a smooth route home and you may never be troubled by this ever
rgrds
Dave
