Koi Spawn in Southern California

[DrCase]

I had a hatch this morning,,, And The big koi in my upper pond are making me a fresh supply of eggs again...

 

[stroppy]

what do you do with your Drcase ? do you take them out or let them take there chance with the older fish

 

[DrCase]

I got them in a 100 gal stock tank sitting on my deck ..every time i look i see more and more babies,,,Today i got a lot of eggs out of my top pond.

 

[DrCase]

That is going to be tough right now. They are transparent and all you can see is 2 black dots where the eyes are. I will try. I do have some photos from last years hatching. These were about 3 days old when taken.

Now i see what you mean,,,I cant believe how tiny tiny they are.

 

[DrCase]

A friend dropped off a 55 gal drum today,,I am going to build a new filter for my 100 gal stock tank nursery .

 

[DrDave]

Get your wife to cut loose of some of her nylons. You will need them for the intake so the fry don't get sucked into the filter.

 

[DrCase]

I am working on the nylons,,,:icon_mrgreen: My koi are at it again this morning..I put the mop heads in and a few evergreen branches....Looking for the 2nd batch to hatch sat...I do think i have enough eggs now but they keep on giving..

 

[DrDave]

I have since learned that the sunshade material works well for a prefilter. I had my wife sew up socks for my intakes out of this. The baby koi will not get sucked in and some of the waste will. A win win scenario.:banana:

 

[DrCase]

I had been using some landscape fabric over the small pump i have in the tank..finally got my nylons last night and put it over the pump this morning..
I made a small sponge filter for it until the last eggs hatch, should be any time now..
Then i am going to tie on to one of my drums and pipe filtered water to the bottom of the 100 gal stock tank , And let it run out a bulk head back to my main pond.

 

[Julius Leonid Maestral]

what kind of koi is that in the pictures by DrCase? :bowdown:

 

[DrCase]

That koi a few post back is a male Showa.

 

[DrCase]

Here are a few pics of my baby tank,,,,It has a flow thru filter,turns the water over every hour.
I take a little water from one of my filters , and discharge it back into the main pond

 

[DrDave]

How many fry do you think you have?
What are your feeding plans?
Set up a secondary tank for the bigger ones, they get that way by eating thier siblings. I have already isolated 50 from my tanks.

 

[DrCase]

I would guess around 500 ..I have water in buckets and coolers with green water growing the little swimming food...And i have been feeding Hikari first bites it is a fine powder.
I will start to think about the second tank.

 

[DrDave]

I have 4 brine shrimp hatcheries going 24/7. I am also grinding flake food. Even with the hatcheries and hatching 3 times the recommended amount in each, I am still short enough food.