Author Topic: I had babies, lots of them (Read 2401 times)

Celia · « **on:** July 17, 2008, 09:16:27 AM »

Hadn't seen any signs of new life this year, until Sunday, all of a sudden they decided to come out and start eating with the big boys, what a shock to me. I've seen around 20 or so at one counting, but they move so fast, I don't know for sure. All kinds of different colors too, from white to speckled, black and white to solid black. These aren't the best lighting, but they show up.

Celia · « **Reply #1 on:** July 17, 2008, 09:20:59 AM »

More, nothing fancy, just mutts but I love them.....

miguynmkoi · « **Reply #2 on:** July 17, 2008, 09:37:56 AM »

WOW!! That is so exciting! Congrats! I'm guessing the babies feel safe swimming out in the open without getting swallowed by the BIG fish in your pond

They are colored very brightly. Do you have any idea who the parents are?

Kat · « **Reply #3 on:** July 17, 2008, 09:39:22 AM »

Congrats! That is the fun part, seeing them for the first time

SueSTx · « **Reply #4 on:** July 17, 2008, 10:15:18 AM »

Bsbies are so cute

Celia · « **Reply #5 on:** July 17, 2008, 10:38:57 AM »

Thanks, no idea in the world which ones are parents Annette. I think may be more than one mommy, this is just a portion of the babies showing up in the pics, all I could catch at one shot. I guess they feel safe now coming out, but up till now they have been hiding somewhere under all the lilies I guess. Yes Kat, we were totally shocked to see them, I had only 4 last year, no fear of filling up the pond with 4 babies a year LOL. Now I am officially over limit. Thanks Sue, yes they are so cute.

Koi Boi · « **Reply #6 on:** July 17, 2008, 11:49:05 AM »

Me too!!!

Celia · « **Reply #7 on:** July 17, 2008, 12:03:18 PM »

Oh My, thats a big bunch, how many do you think you have ??? Second question, what do you do with all of them???

joeyb5980 · « **Reply #8 on:** July 17, 2008, 12:17:24 PM »

Yikes- looks like you both have lots of babies to contend with.... Cool!

KatFish · « **Reply #9 on:** July 17, 2008, 02:27:41 PM »

Wow, I can't type what I said when I saw that photo!

That's a lot of babies!!

Julles · « **Reply #10 on:** July 17, 2008, 05:53:42 PM »

Celia, how big is your pond? Seems large.

Koi Boy - that first pic is funny!

I managed to save some eggs from the March spawn, for the first time ever, and those babies are slowly plugging their way along. Still very small.

But yesterday, I noticed a fish about 1" or 1.5" in the main pond - obviously a survivor from the spawnings, who, like yours, only feels confident now and safe enough to show himself - way at the other end of the pond from the main gang of fish. Not sure if he's a koi or a goldfish. I have one goldfish from last year who survived in the same way.

landey1230 · « **Reply #11 on:** July 17, 2008, 06:26:23 PM »

Congrats on your new arrivals. That's a lot of mouths to feed.

Celia · « **Reply #12 on:** July 17, 2008, 06:27:18 PM »

Julles, My pond is 3000 gallons, I sure don't have as many fish as Koi Boy LOL. Koi Boy, was yours a planned you know, spawn LOL??? Mine wasn't

bunny56lbc · « **Reply #13 on:** July 17, 2008, 07:57:23 PM »

Celia , mutt's are the best ! ( I have a few pond mutt's myself...

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Koi Boy ,
I love how they swim in a group like in the second pic.
I'm glad they're you'rs & not mine.....it would worry me on what to do with so many baby koi .

bonnie

miguynmkoi · « **Reply #14 on:** July 17, 2008, 08:02:08 PM »

Koi Boi....WOW! You have some lilies with your fish!

I wouldn't know what to do with so many fishies!!!

tweetybaby2005 · « **Reply #15 on:** July 17, 2008, 08:11:03 PM »

Lovely lovely lovely!!

I keep checking my pond but so far I haven't seen any babies yet. Hopefully no babies until the new pond is done since it is 10x bigger than the little stock tank pond right now.

Nice pics!!

Kuan

Celia · « **Reply #16 on:** July 17, 2008, 08:26:24 PM »

Julles, I was able to resize a pic taken through the middle of pond today, but its really small to look at. I don't know why but some pics will resize under 200 kb but pics with lots in back ground won't resize down enough to post.

miguynmkoi · « **Reply #17 on:** July 17, 2008, 09:45:21 PM »

Celia looks like you over resized the photo. Take it off and try again. I want to see a bigger photo of what looks like a picturesque lily pond!

barb · « **Reply #18 on:** July 18, 2008, 06:18:39 AM »

Oh my, that is a lot of fish! I spotted a few babies last week, but haven't seen them in a few days. What in the world will you do with all those fish? And their offspring...and so on....and so on.....

Derrick · « **Reply #19 on:** July 20, 2008, 08:33:19 AM »

Holy crap, that's a lot of babies!! LOL

...and I was wondering what to do with the 10 or 12 I have seen in mine!