Koi Culture

Koi is an exotic ornamental fish with lot of fans. Besides Breedding as a hobby, koi can also be used as a promising business area. Of course for those who are really serious at it. Besides the charm of beautiful colors and outs, another feature of the koi is a beauty on display when poking and jumping into the water. It was a special sight for a hobby to maintain.

Things to watch out for when going to the breeding of koi fish is the availability of a pool, koi broodstock inventory, supply of feed seed, and treatment of tight selection of Broodstock.
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Spawning ponds
Spawning ponds may not be the one with the garden pond. Spawning pond should have a different water inlet and outlet. Beside that, the entire pool must be plastered so it can be dried to perfection.

Spawning ponds vary widely. To narrow the pool can use the pool area of ​​3-6 m2 with a depth of 0.5 m. Location of the pool getting enough sunlight, not too noisy, protected from the reach of children and other pets.
If possible, also provide a pool of hatching eggs and seed treatments. Hatching pond, its shape can be rectangular or round. If the pool round, its diameter is between 1.5 to 2 m.

One pool if there are, the pool to grow natural food used to feed the seed if the yolksac has been exhausted. The depth of the pond about 30 cm. Vast pool of 6-10 m2, adequate enough.

For those who have money enough, the walls of the pool can be covered with vinyl that is the usual material for making fiberglass tub. With a vinyl coating, the pool is more assured of cleanliness and the effect of cement can be eliminated.

Brood Selection
The main requirement is a prospective parent mature sex and mature body. Mature sex male parent that is already producing sperm and the female parent has produced a mature egg. Mature means that the body, physically they are ready to become parent productive.

Another requirement physical prime, not disabled. Complete fins, scales well. Koi movements were graceful, balanced, not sluggish. At least 2 years of age males, females at least 3 years. Females larger than males, her stomach looks bigger than the back. Males on the contrary, more slender and flat belly when viewed from the back. Fins ready to mate the male parent will appear white spots.

A female parent pairs with 2 or 3 masculine mains. If a female was only given a male in the spawning pond and the males takdisangka crashed, gagallah spawning. By providing a stock of more than one male, spawning failures can be avoided.

It is recommended not to use the best parent stock, because the offspring are usually ugly. Offspring is not necessarily as good as its parent. What should koi dipijahkan casual, but still has superior properties, such as the color black. At the time of seed selection, will be chosen where a good and which ones expired.

Preparation Swimming
First time to be prepared for spawning is swimming. Pond dried in the sun. Water inlet installed a filter to prevent egg which possible drift.

Koi eggs sticking (adhesive) properties. Usually koi will lay eggs under the plant or any material that could be used to attach their eggs. Therefore provide adequate pasting egg to egg koi can survive.

Pasting eggs can use Kakaban, which is used for breeding of goldfish. Kakaban made from the fibers are clamped with bamboo slats and nailed. Kakaban both fibers are made of long and flat, length 120 cm width 40 cm. Kakaban required amount adjusted to the large female parent, usually 4-6 kg of fruit for every 1 female mains.

In order to float, Kakaban arranged on a piece of bamboo that are still intact. Above of kakaban given bamboo slats and tied to a collection Kakaban not be scattered when the parent pair spawning. Before being installed, Kakaban cleaned, washed and rinsed to be free from mud.

Kakaban installed after a pool filled with water. Water always flows into the spawning pond for koi merangasang pair that will spawn. Besides Kakaban, where pasting eggs can also use water plants such as Hydrilla arranged or pieces of plastic rope or palm fiber as a replacement.

Implementation Spawning
Stem is inserted around 16:00 and will begin to spawn at midnight. Parent female will swim around the pool followed by the male parent in belakangya. The longer they are more exciting movement. Male parent as he was pressed followed the female parent. At its peak, the mother will release her eggs with the occasional leap into the air. Female activity is immediately followed by removing the male semen.

Eggs exposed to sperm will stick to the egg pasting Kakaban or other materials and hard to escape. Also there are some uyang eggs fall to the bottom of the pond. Marriage is completed in the morning. Parent immediately separated from their eggs. If you late, the eggs can be eaten by it parent.
There are two ways to separate the parent from eggs dihasilkan.Pertama, by moving the stem from the spawning pond and still let the eggs hatch in the pond tersenur. The second way to move the eggs to the hatchery pond. The first way is more practical because it saves land (pond).

To prevent fungus, eggs soaked first in a solution with a concentration of 1/300.000 Malachyt green for 15 minutes before it is placed in the hatchery pond. When will soak this eggs, preferably Kakaban shake the water that dirt may cover the eggs could be released.

*Kakaban : traditional fiber made from dried pady stem, it resembles a hair

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