David Demarest
Amateur Enthusiast (is that a thing?)
Back towards the end of March/early April, we had—what seemed to be—a little miracle fish added to our pond. We had never seen any eggs or any other little fish swimming around, but one day I saw this little off-white koi with a big orange circle on his back, swimming very tentatively, close to one of the patches of grass that we have in the pond. Prior to his appearance, and even for a brief time after, we would come outside and see one of our adult koi would wedge itself deep into the same patch of grass.
Is it rare for only one Koi to survive from the brood? Part of me feels bad that we didn’t see the other babies, but maybe they were all eaten as eggs? And on the other hand, letting nature take its course isn’t the worst thing I’ve done this year haha.
All we knew was that one of the koi (the white one with black and orange spots) was hanging out deep in the pond grass for an extended period of time, and sometimes the other two would hang out close to it. I like to think that it’s a modern family with three parents and one child, not that the other two were waiting to possibly eat the eggs/young. Do Koi eat other Koi’s eggs? We’ve had lots of aquariums and even a previous family of koi and a catfish in the pond, and we tend to point fingers at the catfish when things go wrong. One time we had a nice healthy aquarium with dozens of fish and one day we introduced an albino channel catfish to the mix. Within a week or two, it was just him and the gourami (with a half-eaten tail) left, so even though we love catfish and know they’re and important part of the ecosystem, they’re also our go-to scapegoat. For that same reason, I’m not surprised that the Koi chose to stay close to the patch of grass where the catfish doesn’t live.
Also, is it easy to tell when a Koi is pregnant?
I’ll upload some pictures of the pond and the koi. I’ll also include a link for a Dropbox folder that contains some videos I took for another post.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kj8jbguxvfe6is5/AAAUN1RpZcTaknSYbsjCWoV_a?dl=0
Is it rare for only one Koi to survive from the brood? Part of me feels bad that we didn’t see the other babies, but maybe they were all eaten as eggs? And on the other hand, letting nature take its course isn’t the worst thing I’ve done this year haha.
All we knew was that one of the koi (the white one with black and orange spots) was hanging out deep in the pond grass for an extended period of time, and sometimes the other two would hang out close to it. I like to think that it’s a modern family with three parents and one child, not that the other two were waiting to possibly eat the eggs/young. Do Koi eat other Koi’s eggs? We’ve had lots of aquariums and even a previous family of koi and a catfish in the pond, and we tend to point fingers at the catfish when things go wrong. One time we had a nice healthy aquarium with dozens of fish and one day we introduced an albino channel catfish to the mix. Within a week or two, it was just him and the gourami (with a half-eaten tail) left, so even though we love catfish and know they’re and important part of the ecosystem, they’re also our go-to scapegoat. For that same reason, I’m not surprised that the Koi chose to stay close to the patch of grass where the catfish doesn’t live.
Also, is it easy to tell when a Koi is pregnant?
I’ll upload some pictures of the pond and the koi. I’ll also include a link for a Dropbox folder that contains some videos I took for another post.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kj8jbguxvfe6is5/AAAUN1RpZcTaknSYbsjCWoV_a?dl=0