| I think a step back may be in order! From your postings and PM’s you seem to be running too fast.
Firstly, if your parent koi are conditioned for breeding, there is no need at this stage to be thinking about artificial spawning. 99% of the time I can place well conditioned set of koi in a spawning net, have then spawned and back in their own pond within 24 hours, no injections, no damage from stripping.
You say you are planning to use a 2 year old female at 16”, not the best idea. I tend to use females of 4 years and older, why must it be one so young, have you no others to use to get experience?
You say in your personal messages that you have, ‘put alot of money in this project and need to get a little something out of it other than pure enjoyment’.
Stick with the enjoyment for a while, you will not find much money to start with!
Fry ponds tend to be shallow, my ponds are 3 feet deep, the most important point for good growth is a temperature of 24/25c, deeper ponds tend to stay cooler, or have deeper water which is too cool for good fry growth. I can raise a new born fry to 12” in 6 months at this temperature, in the past I have had ponds where the maximum summer high was 20c and could only manage 4” by the following spring.
My advice echoes much of what has been written above, use some inexpensive koi to learn the art of breeding and raising fry, it’s not all easy. Forget any dreams of making money, if you can cover your costs, you’re doing OK, koi breeding is not a get rich quick project, if that’s what you want, there’s lots of better ways to invest time and money.
It’s more about PASSION, than money.
Maurice.
PS You spelt Kohuka and Sanka wrong, it should be Kohaku and Sanke. |