I have had a Coi pond now for two years. No babies. Could it be because there are mosquito eater fish in the pond and they eat the eggs?
2006-10-21 08:24:21 · 6 answers · asked by jacklord 1 in Pets ➔ Fish
have you seen your koi spawn? maybe they are not old enough to spawn yet, they have to be good sized and several years old to breed...they get so rowdy, splashing and chasing each other you would probably see it, I can smell them when they breed,
koi will eat their own eggs as fast as they lay them, make sure you have plenty of plants in the pond for them to lay eggs on and for hiding the newly hatched babies, especially water hyacinth
and other floating plants, I have had some of my large koi jump out of the pond while spawning and some of my koi have even sprayed eggs on nearby bushes and hedges next to the pond
2006-10-21 23:20:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The koi and the mosquito eating fish could both be eating the eggs. Even if some of the eggs survived they are both probably eating the babies. Try adding more plants for the babies to hid in if you want to have some babies.
2006-10-21 08:57:38 · answer #2 · answered by Nunya Biznis 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are egg layers, like Salmon. But with coi they will lay in a pond or a large fish tank.
2006-10-21 08:33:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you might have a bunch of males or just females you cant look up there skirts but the mosquito eaters only eat mosquitos other coi could be eating them too
2006-10-21 08:32:33 · answer #4 · answered by jettalady 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many fish might nicely be bred in a house aquarium. Fish like guppies, White Cloud Minnows and Convict Cichlids will breed on the drop of a hat, and the fry are extremely common to rear. it extremely is in lots of cases tougher to provide up them breeding. Others are slightly tougher and require slightly greater care, particular water circumstances and feeding and so on. Others have by no skill been bred in domicile aquariums and are the two bred artifically utilising hormones, bred in great outdoors ponds, or caught from the wild. Ian
2016-11-24 21:29:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Koi reproduce in an unusual way. The male koi will hold down the female koi and put his penis inside her and nut in her vag. If he doesn't want babies he nuts on her fins. After this process the male koi loses interest in the female koi and moves on.
2006-10-21 12:58:54 · answer #6 · answered by alf 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋