Water Gardening: Fish today, 1 by helenchild

helenchild wrote:
Several years ago two of my fish spawned in August. It wasn't a group activity as it usually is in the spring. I thought it was strange but then a while later I noticed three young koi. They survived and are now about 12 inches. I still have the mother but the father died. :-( They are nice fish but not super lookers.
The three smaller ones on the right are the ones that were born in my pond. Their mother is the farthest away. The one in the front has had that swollen abdomen for years and when the others were spawning this spring she didn't participate. I was hoping the males would chase her around and get her to expel some eggs but no such luck.