Just put baby koi in my pond

[barry]

after the hassle I had with my pond over the last few weeks with my liner bursting, cement killing all my fish, and then building decking around the pond.

I have finally gotten a couple of baby koi inyo my pond, they are around 2-3inches in length. Please bear in mind the following photographs were taken in the dark

I have a couple of questions to ask:

- how old would they be?
- what kind of koi are they?

 

[DrDave]

3" Long could be anywhere from 6 months to 1 year old. Some grow faster than others.

 

[pondbuilder13]

do you have any i products such as ipad ipod iphone>? if so there is an app called koi stork it has a blue background and two koi on the cover

 

[pondbuilder13]

koi story srry it tells you all about koi it was very helpful to me

 

[barry]

based on koi story on iphone i have a

kin-rin koi
taisho sanke koi

 

[mogsie]

at 200 galls is your pond not a bit small for koi ?? also is your water temp not too cold to be introducing new fish into a new pond ? ime in cumbria and my water temp is fluctuating between 8 degrees celsius and 11 degrees celsius, so ime waiting for it to maintain above 10 degrees C before i put any fish in,plus gives it a few week for the water to circulate and balance out !

 

[barry]

well i had 2 koi in my pond last year before the builder from hell got at it and they where fine, happy as larry (who the hell is larry?). so i dont think a couple koi would be to upset in it, also - I had my koi in the pond over the entire winter where the temp dropped to -18c and they never died, i went out every day with the hose and ran warm water into the pond to raise water temperature slightly

 

[mogsie]

yeah i know they will winter in there ok, just i was told on here not to introduce fish to a pond if the temp is below 10 degrees C, my pond is 480 gallon and i read everywhere on here you need min 1000 gallon for koi !! ime a newbie also ! just picking up what i read and people tell me !

 

[barry]

mayve I shouldnt have koi in it, but they are only 3" long atm, if they get to big it aint hard to re-home them

 

[pondbuilder13]

well in a way mogsie your right however as long as you bring the fish to that temp SLOWLY he will be fine same with summer, water temp has to equal out,EX when you bay a fish it is usually in a bag so you just float the bag for same 10 mins.

However i personally would not recommend introducing new fish in the winter

~Marino~

 

[pondbuilder13]

Buy a fish not bay a fish hahahja

 

[barry]

WHAT!?!? You've NEVER bayed a fish before!?

you have not lived my friend!

 

[stroppy]

thing is barry you are already having problems with your water, koi are not as tough as goldies and i agree with mogsie your pond is really too small ... but you do need to get your pond settled before you keep adding fish or they are just going to keep on dieing ...

 

[sissy]

I lkie the color of that yellow one he glows like sunshine .I have my first 2 koi Auntie AG and Uncle Bert and they are 6 years old and Ag is 2 feet long and Bert is smaller as I understand the males are smaller in my case thats the true.When I got them they where both the same size and about 5 inches long then .I have 2 calico fantails I call them popeye and olive oil ,I also have 3 fancy tails and 2 butterfly koi and they are a pond full of fun .I have 6 babies left as some I gave to neighbors who wanted a pond .They get big fast a couple of mugshots of the destroyers

 

[DrDave]

Nice looking Koi.