| 3rd year as amateur breeder
Hello,
This is the 3rd season I'm breeding Koi for fun & learning. Even so, I'm already taking care of lots of fry born from 4 different females, spawning dates 4, 6 and 7/April inside a greenhouse. The fry are doing pretty well, with water temp at 20 degrees celsius (68 Farenheit). In early summer the keepers will go to a 600 Tons pond that currently is my main source of Daphnia. I don't expect keeping more than 0.3 % of the fry by mid june, and half of that in late july. I mean, going from an estimate of 325000 eggs to a final number of around 500 young koi -most probably half of that, in late october. Moreover, if I can get around 50 that make the grade I expect, that would be an excellent result for me. Results from last year spawning are quite encouraging.
Rearing and selecting fry is time consuming, but certainly I find it extremely fascinating. I can only hardly imagine what would be the hobby for me whithout breeding.
Diego
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