garman
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|  Subject: Coy eggs from my stepfathers pond. Can I raise them?  Fri May 09, 2008 9:14 pm | |
| I have some eggs from my stepfathers pond as the coy are spawning now. How would I raise these coy from egg stage? Gumbii? Anyone with Coy experience?  |
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gumbii
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| | Subject: Re: Coy eggs from my stepfathers pond. Can I raise them? Sat May 10, 2008 10:25 pm | |
| oh... you mean KOI fish... lol...
first of all do a huge waterchange on the pond... does it still smell...? gross...
you could put the eggs in a large incubator sock... i use breeding tubs just for the eggs... but since you don't have another setup with a stable filtration system just get or make a breeding sock...
here's one...
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=5163+19008+16871&pcatid=16871
oh shit they're expensive...
um... other than that i wouldn't try to incubate the eggs or anything... chances are that they will spawn again very soon... and a average pair of koi lay more than 50,000 eggs at a time... i sometimes have to cull out 3/4'ers of a batch of eggs... that's just way to many fish to house at a time...
i would just say you accomplished something if 2 or three survived... |
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garman
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| | Subject: Re: Coy eggs from my stepfathers pond. Can I raise them? Sun May 11, 2008 1:04 am | |
| | My stepfather has a pond service who akes care of the water during spawning season. When I was there I only found a few eggs in the surface skimer and they didn't look very good. I think the pond guys through away the best of the bunch. If I am able to aquire some of the next spawn I have an extra tank rhat's cycled which has only snails in it and I think that may do for a hatching and fry tank. I dumped what I had into this tank, but as I said, the eggs didn't look too good. |
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gumbii
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| | Subject: Re: Coy eggs from my stepfathers pond. Can I raise them? Sun May 11, 2008 4:08 pm | |
| | the eggs should like like tapioca... and after 2-3 days if they're still white they are no good... they should turn clear with little black dots in they... |
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garman
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| | Subject: Re: Coy eggs from my stepfathers pond. Can I raise them? Tue May 13, 2008 11:19 pm | |
| | These.were.clear.with.black.dots,but.they.were.pretty.abused.by.the.time.I.got.to.them....I.got.water.on.my.keyboard.so.I.can't.type.right......I'll.respond.later.in.more.detail.....Garman |
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gumbii
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| | Subject: Re: Coy eggs from my stepfathers pond. Can I raise them? Wed May 14, 2008 12:44 am | |
| lol... your space bar is stuck...
ibyoushouldthrowthekeyboardoutthewindowandcalliteven... |
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