[Worldwide Koi Club] Newbie.. in OKLAHOMA needing some help
Sounds like they are spawning. This time of year is when they do it by chasing each other around. If so it is perfectly normal. You need to put some soft spawning material into the pool so they won’t injure themselves scraping against hard surfaces. Old mop heads dangling from the surface work well (be sure they contain no chemicals), but plenty of dense vegetation at the pond edges is the natural spawning material.
If all goes well you will have plenty of little babies soon.
Edgar
On May 21, 2008, at 3:52 PM, serena wrote:
> We have only had our ponds for about a year and we started out with 3 > koi and added feeder goldfish and some fancy goldfish and added a few > more koi.. > > We have not had any problems of the fish getting sick or anything but > yesterday some of the goldfish started chasing one of the other > goldfish and I thought that were just playing, last night when I got > home from work I noticed that they were not doing it, but this morning > when I went to feed them they were at it again, I noticed that they > have gotten scales off the sides of the poor baby and I was able to > get it out and put it a seperate little pond to keep a better eye on > it.. My questions is will they scales grow back? and will it live?.. > they are not small fish but maybe 7-8 inches.. it seems healthy but a > little scared.. > any info you might have would be greatly appreciated > Serena > > >
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