Koi Carp and breeding

Speedy sum for you to get you interested.
Each kilogram of female koi will produce about 200000 eggs in the event you hatch out 100000 eggs and grow the koi to 2-3" which takes about 120 days. You will finish up with 100000 fish a value of 60p each trade. The cost of arriving at this point is about 10p per fish, you now have a profit of 50p per fish = £50000. I listen to you ask "why doesn't everyone do it" First is knowledge, you do need a nice degree of knowledge to do this. Secondly is holding capacity you will need a massive pool or recirculation technique to accomplish this. Thirdly, it is a dicy business, thing goes wrong with the technique and you loose your whole batch of fish.

Koi are amazing animals. They have evolved originally from common carp and were originally thought of as throw backs. The koi world has grown massively and is continuing to grow at an unprecedented rate. Years ago in the event you heard of someone spending £1000 on a fish you may have fell over, in this day and age this is commonplace.

When spring is in the air water temperature is at about 15-20 degrees you will notice your fish may go off there food. You may also notice fish swimming like an arrow around the pool. This is male fish and the female. The male in front will be looking for a place to spawn. This is the time you put in you brushes. The brushes are like a toilet brush but much softer. These brushes must be placed in the shallow water approx 6-10" deep.
When the fish are prepared they will start to thrash over the brushes this normally happens in early morning.
After about hour you will notice the brushes are covered with eggs small eggs.
The eggs need to be moved to a separate tank or elderly bath or the parents will eat them. It is best to treat the eggs with malachite to prevent fungus a speedy dip is fine as you don't need to starve the eggs of oxygen.
The bath or tank must be setup to have jogging water the flow needs to be five liters per minute ( low) you can pump this directly from you pond in case you wish. When the water arrives at the tank use an elderly bed sheet to filter the water. The water needs to be as tidy as feasible or the small little particles will stick in the infant koi gills causing slow growth and death.


The eggs will take approx 3-4days to hatch, then the actual fun begins