New generation, mix of wild carp/shubunkin/golden-sarasa

[antonio]

Hi everybody!
Here after a whole while...enjoying my pond, much of that thanks to importants orientation tips of you all. Thanks.

This time just for sharing my experience with the new oct/23 generation. A mix, totally new for me, as follows:

Only mother: Wild Carp, about 12", unfortunately found dead early in the morning. See pictures.

Fathers:
- Some wild Carp, between 10" and 12"..
- 4 Shubunkin, about 6".
- 1 Golden sarasa, about 5".

Interesting to see how the size/color gen combination produced so many different looks.
Could you say, there are some black golden? among the dark-black (like the song) ones.

Lots of fun monitoring the development of each one. Some red/calico already the size of the father, others so small, etc

The pictures attached show the new generation only...all of them of one single mother !!

Thanks again and more that greatful for comments. I have another carp pregnant OMG!

 

[GBBUDD]

loosing your larger fish is often a sign of lack of oxygen.

The fish schooling is a good sign of conditions but they need far less oxygen than do large fish. an air stone or surface agitation could be helpful

 

[antonio]

loosing your larger fish is often a sign of lack of oxygen.

The fish schooling is a good sign of conditions but they need far less oxygen than do large fish. an air stone or surface agitation could be helpful

Yes, I had to implement a filter with water fall (small) for oxigenation too. I am going to post the filter in the DIY section. The problem was, this rainy season, more intensive than usual, maintained the water of the natural stream too brown and I couldn't use it for weeks! I normally use that water twice a week for recirculation and oxigenation.
I am testing the filtration now and hope to be less dependent of the stream in the future.

Thanks!