The koi know spring is springing! they are chowing down, eating veraciously the algae we have been trying to cut down for so long. they won’t get it all, but the interesting part is that they are eating, before the time they should actually be able to eat.
I think they’re getting ready for breeding time, which really is coming up soon. it all depends on weather conditions and water temperature. Last year our spawn happened at the end of April. Chat says a little later. Who knows? Chat knows! Ha ha!
This year we’re gonna do all our breeding and our spawning outside, and our medical care also. We have learned so much! The ones we tenderly cared for and spawned in my Lanai (my entire Lanai) have come to nothing. I don’t even know if there’s a survivor.
The ones we let happen outside have gotten strong and big. Duh. We’ve learned from Mother Nature. Dr. Brent says that’s how it is. They have to build strength in a natural environment. If they can’t make it in a natural environment they weren’t meant to make it. We have managed to harden some of the ones we kept inside. They are doing well though. but we are learning.
And our koi are fabulous!