development of baby fry koi

[Belinda garden nut]

How old do baby (fry) koi have to be before they have whiskers??

Thank you

Belinda

[bekko]

Fry don't have barbels. Fully-scaled juveniles have barbels when a little over 1/2 inch long. About half of koi x goldfish hybrids have the second set of barbels. Some hybrids have both sets of barbels.

-ste v

[Belinda garden nut]

Thank you so much I am trying to figure out if these babies I have if they are baby gold fish or koi I have raised baby gold fish before that are fan tail but this time I have babies that have fan tails but then I have some that have single tails they tend to be bigger then the fan tail ones ..I have both gold fish and koi in this pond that I took the eggs out of ....