Monday, April 02, 2007
Grandkoi - Day one
I keep koi. Yeah, most of you know that.
We began our first attempt at a hormonally induced spawning Last Friday, injecting the brood-females with 2500 IU of Chorulon. Chorulon is a synthetic analog to human chorionic gonadotrophin. It’s supposed to induce the eggs to be ready to go within 8-12 hours, although in our case, it was more like 64 hours.
They spawned this morning on the spawning ropes we provided, and we just removed them to the fry pond.
So now, we wait and see how many “grandkoi” we’ll have hatch. It looks like we’ve got about 250,000 eggs. Usually about half of them will hatch.
Wish us luck. Baby koi are about as maintenance intensive as human babies. At least the “baby phase” for the koi only lasts about a month.
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