What do you all do with your baby koi fish?

[sawlog]

We have a couple thousand baby koi fish in our pond from last year. We are going to pump our pond out this spring to get them out before our koi spawn again.
What do you guys and gals do with all the babies??

 

[HARO]

Just goldfish here, but any excess I give away to people I meet at the garden center where I work part-time. (I run the water garden area.) Are you thinking of selling or donating?
John

 

[sawlog]

last summer we sold around 500 of them for 2 bucks each, people come over and pick out what they want.
but getting rid of a couple thousand is a stretch.

 

[sissy]

You may need to gather the eggs this year and dispose of them to control the population until you can get rid of them .I use garden centers also .Have you tried ads in local papers .

 

[Smaug]

I had a chanel cat for years that took care of that problem, now my hybrid koi comets eat the small stuff.

 

[sawlog]

I have a 30in albino channel cat and a 3# large mouth bass in there, they don't make a dent

 

[Smaug]

I had my cat in with them as they were growing up,maybe that's why. How big is your pond?

 

[morewater]

Damned things keep falling through the grill on the BBQ.

 

[sawlog]

I had my cat in with them as they were growing up,maybe that's why. How big is your pond?

20,000 gallon

 

[cas]

20,000 gallon

Wow. Please share pictures!

 

[sawlog]

Wow. Please share pictures!

let me see if I have any

 

[sawlog]

I just took these, not much to look at this time of year, but you can see the size of it.

 

[sawlog]

Here are a few my wife found. One is of my daughter and I cleaning the big side out.

 

[sissy]

WOW HOLY CRAP that is a nice pond and love your bridge .I see dogs like to pose also .

 

[Smaug]

20,000 gallon

Yep,that's a different story then mine at only 2500 gallons..