mrsclem
mrsclem
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Haven't posted in a while. I have been busy with yard and garden work now that the ponds seem to be under control. After all the problems this spring, I was seriously considering selling off most of my fish and going with one pond for fish and the other for plants.
Well--- Looked out the window at 7am this morning to see a lot of water movement in my Gin-rin pond. I guess the fish are feeling good as they have been spawning all morning and are still at it! I was surprised to see that 3 of the fish I thought were males are females. I have decided to give it another year and so put in spawning mats and some plants. I am moving the eggs to the 2nd section of the pond where I just have lilies, I had just received 40 water hyacinth plants on Saturday. Some went into the stock tank filter on the large pond and the rest into a floating plant ring in with the Gin-rins.
I haven't seen any sigh of spawning in the other pond yet. I really need to rehome at least 3/4s of the koi there so hoping they behave.
Well--- Looked out the window at 7am this morning to see a lot of water movement in my Gin-rin pond. I guess the fish are feeling good as they have been spawning all morning and are still at it! I was surprised to see that 3 of the fish I thought were males are females. I have decided to give it another year and so put in spawning mats and some plants. I am moving the eggs to the 2nd section of the pond where I just have lilies, I had just received 40 water hyacinth plants on Saturday. Some went into the stock tank filter on the large pond and the rest into a floating plant ring in with the Gin-rins.
I haven't seen any sigh of spawning in the other pond yet. I really need to rehome at least 3/4s of the koi there so hoping they behave.