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Viable,
fertilized Koi eggs ( fry, small koi, baby fish )
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To Try To Raise Your Own Butterfly Koi Fry? |
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You may read through this to get an idea of
what it is all about. We will be repeating the eggs again in the spring of
2007.
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below and think you are interested, go back to the main page and
sign up for my emails. I will be emailing to those on the list
when we are ready to spawn. Please don't email me direct. All
of the information will be in the email when I email to the list. I
will be in touch about a week before we spawn with information about
parents and pricing. |
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Millions and millions of eggs |
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Spring 2006 The
tank is 40' by 8' by 4' deep. The entire liner is solid eggs. Millions and
millions and millions of them! In fact Rich says he will give free fry to
anyone who wants to count the eggs for us. Better hurry because they will
start hatching tonight or tomorrow! Oh yah for size reference, there is a
scale in the one photo that one of the breeders lost during the spawn!
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this deal you will receive several 100 baby butterfly koi. |
They will be approximately 1 week old.
Price is $100 plus over night Fed EX shipping around $50.00
or more (email your zip code for shipping quote) depending on how far you live
from zip code 28658 and $8.98 for special fry food.
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is the information from when we spawned last year |
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To the Buyer |
There is a lot of information here so
please read this carefully.
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Dummy bag I made up with roots, water and oxygen to get the weight.
So what you will receive will look just like the photo above.
The eggs will hatch in 3 to 5 days after spawning,
depending on the temperature. The warmer it is, the faster they hatch.
OK so you need to have a tank set up and running in
advance and ready to go when the package arrives at your door. I would
strongly recommend that you not put these in a pond that contains other fish or
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Left to right, 100 gallon tank we have ready for spawning in. Examples of
tanks middle picture 300 gallon stock tank. Right picture, 650 gallon
tank. If you note the filters, they are all homemade and we actually have
twice the amount (or more) gallons of filtration on each tank. This allows
us to grow more fish per tank. For instance the 650-gallon tank has 3,000
gallons of filtration on it.
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How many fish will you get from the hatch? Our past
experience says about 80% to 90% are viable and will hatch into fry.
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You will need these items ON HAND when
the eggs arrive. |
You will not have time to run around and get needed items
when the eggs arrive. Please have on hand:
At least a 100 gallon tank preferably larger.
We use 650 gallon stock tanks. These can be purchased at
farm supply type stores. Tractor Farm Supply is where we buy them. We buy
them here in NC for around $150.00 (650-gallon size) but price will vary
depending on your location. Keep in mind the bigger the tank the faster
the fish will grow and the less chance that the fry will be cannibalistic.
We use 100 gallon stock tanks also available at farm type stores for spawning
and then after the eggs are hatched we transfer them to 650 gallon tanks.
You will need a pump and a filter, and established bio filter is highly
recommended. The intake on the pump must be covered so that the eggs or fry will
not be sucked into the pump. We wrap a piece of filter material around
that intake. It generally has to be removed for cleaning quite often
because the
hyacinth roots will cling to it eventually.
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In addition you will need |
Good testing kits that test for ammonia, nitrite, pH and
Kh. Make sure you use new fresh test kits. Your test kits should be replaced
every spring. They do go bad and give false reading. If you do not have
these I have them for
sale here.
You will need ammonia binder, baking soda and regular table salt on hand.
Optional would be a pond thermometer. You must test the water for
ammonia and nitrite daily. Poor water quality is fatal to be koi but even
more so to new babies. I am not talking about the clarity of the water either.
We grow our fry in green water because they grow faster in green water. The down
side is that they are hard, even impossible to see.
You will need fry food on hand also. I have 2 cups for $8.98 and that can be
added into the shipping total. They need new baby fry food about 12 to 18 hours
after hatching. They live off the yolk sack for the first hours. This is a
fine powder that
floats and then slowly sinks.
The fry are very small when they hatch and are very hard to see. You will need
to look very close into the water and at an angle to see them at first. They
generally
stay close to the roots once they hatch. There will be some eggs that will not
hatch and will just wither away.
I make no claims on how many will hatch, the colors or how many will survive
(that is where you and your Koi keeping skills come in). I have given you the
facts as they are and now you must decide if you can and will follow directions.
These are live animals who are dependant on you to keep them alive and healthy.
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