Water Gardening: Cleaning out leaves Is there a better way?, 1 by

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Well, then I don't think my koi have spawned yet. I'm not even sure which ones are males and which are females, but I do know that they are probably 2 years old anyway. I got them all last year, and they were about 4-5 inches when I bought them. I do notice that my gold butterfly koi is out distancing the orange and the black butterfly koi in size and girth. They were all the same size when I got them, so that one might be a female. My mulitcolored koi is longer than the butterflies.
I've had at least three different hatchings so far this year. I have see fry that are now about 2/3 inch long, some that are smaller than that, and just today, some that are so tiny it's hard to know they are actually there until you put your finger in the water and they dart away. Those have just hatched in the last couple of days because I didn't see them earlier in the week.
I have two shubunkin babies from last year that I kept because they were just so cute I couldn't give them away. They are white, with orange and black polka dots. They are now about an inch or so long and growing fast. Here's a photo of my fish from last summer. The white one is the mommy shubunkin. You can see all 4 koi if you look hard. The black one is toward the lop left, the orange one is on the bottom right, the others are more obvious. I've removed most of the comets you see. They were really intense breeders,