If you are seeing red and white, my guess is someone has released some excess koi or goldfish in the lake, or both. They will cross breed, and yep, what you think you are seeing is what you are seeing. Twitterpating!
You know what is weird? I have a koi pond and they are also doing the "funky spring dance"... however, there may be several fish all chasing one female, but then the rest of the school is enthusiastically following behind, chowing down on the freshly laid eggs!!!
It is a good thing I guess, because they lay thousands upon thousands of eggs and if even a reasonable amount hatched, my pond would be in serious trouble, but I still feel bad for all the little guys who never even get out of the starting gate!
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These are very ... polite? Promenading in the middle of the lake in 2s (and 3s ) waiting their turn in the shallows. I stood there for half an hour and haven't noticed anybody eating. Strictly business. They smell pretty fishy, could smell them from the shore.
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We used to raise show Koi on my grandfather's farm. It's not uncommon to loose alot of eggs to chowing neighbors especially if you're not there to pull frames or ropes as the eggs are laid. How it worked is we put wood frames in the pond full of moss then pulled them the next day to put them in a hatching pool which was literally an above ground swimming pool.
Literally where we started with several thousand we ended with under 100 stock worthy fish and of those we retained maybe 10-15 koi for the permanent stock pond. The rest went into the fish fertilizer bucket normally before they were 3 inches long. Koi breeding isn't for the timid, you say good bye to far more fish than you keep.
We used to raise show Koi on my grandfather's farm. It's not uncommon to loose alot of eggs to chowing neighbors especially if you're not there to pull frames or ropes as the eggs are laid. How it worked is we put wood frames in the pond full of moss then pulled them the next day to put them in a hatching pool which was literally an above ground swimming pool.
Literally where we started with several thousand we ended with under 100 stock worthy fish and of those we retained maybe 10-15 koi for the permanent stock pond. The rest went into the fish fertilizer bucket normally before they were 3 inches long. Koi breeding isn't for the timid, you say good bye to far more fish than you keep.
Wow. I used to put cotton mop heads in the pond to try and salvage some of the eggs/fry, but then had to build another "tank" in the garade to house the mop heads. We built a 4 x 8 pressure treated "frame" and lined it with pond liner, added a biofilter, heater, etc... It was fun - but a lot of work. I DID love going out to the garage each morning to see the little guys, however. I remembering being surprised at how much faster some grew than the others, until I realized there weren't as many as there used to be!! One more of life's little lessons...
I've been to shows in DC and Georgia and have seen koi worth more than my house. I know the Japanese have breeding stock worth hundreds of thousands... kinda like premier race horses. Amazing, isn't it?
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) waiting their turn in the shallows. I stood there for half an hour and haven't noticed anybody eating. Strictly business. They smell pretty fishy, could smell them from the shore.
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