Backyard Aquaponics
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Goldfish are 2 bucks

And Ugly and crap and common and boring.

What he said, koi are so much better than goldfish if you get good stock

If you look around you can sometimes find Koi quite cheeply.
They are good growers and don't mind if your water goes green with algae..
After a couple of years they taste pretty good sauted with ginger, garlic, chilli and a little soya.

Can't get Koi here cos of new laws and the breeders are waiting to see how it effects them. Do have a guy down the road that said I can have a couple of 20ltr buckets of eggs if his spawn this year. Might have to go drop a few bags of ice into his pond.

Duff, some of the biggest breeders are in NSW, just get in quick, unless you're breeding and selling, you should slip under the radar

My kids love ours also, 2 little helpers at fish feeding time now...

One tip I did get from the fish farm was that it's good to add a new fish in the tank every so often, as the competition from the new fish helps keep their immune system healthy. I suppose moving some fish between tanks if you have multiple tanks would do the same thing.

Not that will help with your problems KP, but might be worth thinking about moving forward, once you get them through this.

hmmm I added the trout only this year, and the silvers the year before that, with new koi somewhere in between...

Kuda, what's the latest on your Koi?

Apparently the trout were beating them up.
Trout have been removed
Will salt again soon
no Change
No obvious discomfort.

Bet your popular

Yeah! And now I have no pretty trout in the glass tank to show off this W/E at the BBQ

KP, did your koi pull through after your salting efforts?

Nope, still got massive ulcers, yet none have died... one appeared to scab up a bit and then the other fish ate that off... some ulcers have got bigger.

KP register here http://koi2day.com/forum/ and post some pics. I only found the forum yesterday but there are heaps of experts that should be able to help. Registration takes a day to process as they manually do it.