Keifer: I am also raising some fry this year. About 5,000 I have posted the details over at
http://www.koiphen.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2634.
I am also using the Artema (brine shrimp). I have plenty of goldfish flakes that I have powered up and waiting till they are old enough.
Normally I put eggs to hatch out in my stream. They grow much faster there than koi I feed pellets too. Even sometimes I catch koi from the stream, and put them in a spot and feed pellets to and their counterparts that I left in the stream grow much faster. This stream is 50' long, 14" deep, and 4' wide, and full of plants and rock bottom and is connected to my main pond. Flow rate of about 8,000gph.
I always have koi show up in my filter. One this year (a tobi) was 8" long. Born in June. [/url]