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Blue Ridge Fish Blue Ridge Mud Ponds
The fish that is on this site for sale come from Blue Ridge Fish, this page will give you the complete information about Your Koi. While koi hobbyists strive to have clear water in their ponds, Blue Ridge tries just as hard to promote green water in theirs. In order to raise healthy, fast growing fish, they need to provide the fish with an environment that is as stress free as possible. The green water helps them achieve that goal. When the baby fry are stocked into the grow-out ponds, their primary source of food is tiny zooplankton, which feeds on the phytoplankton (green water). As the fish grow they increasingly depend on supplemental feeding. As any fish keeper should know, increased feeding results in increased waste production from the fish. Here again, the green water saves the day. The phytoplankton, along with increasing populations of bacteria, utilize the fish waste as food, controling the damaging amonia and nitrite build-up. Each pond is it's own little eco-system. Keeping those systems in balance is one of the secrets to producing a healthy, quality fish that can withstand the severe stress of harvest, sorting and shipping that is necessary to get the fish to the end user, YOU.  The Breeding ProcessBlue Ridge uses a variety of methods to spawn Koi in the spring. Some are wild-spawned where the male Koi and female Koi are placed in the mud ponds and allowed to spawn on removable nests. Some nests will be moved to grow-out ponds and others will remain in the ponds with the parent fish. Some are tank-spawned. Parent fish are injected with hormones to induce ovulation and then placed into fiberglass tanks lined with nests. If conditions are agreeable, the parent fish will spawn the following morning. Egg-laden nests are then moved to prepared Koi hatchery ponds. Some are hand-stripped. Again, the parent koi are injected with hormones. The following morning, the fish are monitored for signs of ovulation.  The Culling ProcessProducing high quality koi is incredibly labor intensive. The Blue Ridge Hatchery spend many hours a year culling Koi and butterfly Koi. The first cull happens in mid- summer when the fish are 1 to 2 inches in length where the unmarketable fish are removed. In some varieties, as many as 99% of the population is culled out. The "keepers" are then put into grow out ponds where they will continue to grow. As the fish grow in size, they're continually harvested and sorted and the best fish are grown to bigger sizes. HarvestingKoi are harvested using long nets called seines. In full ponds, the fish are lured into corners with food and the seine is pulled across the corner. After a few pulls, koi quickly learn to avoid the net and the water has to be removed to catch them. ShippingFish are placed into sealed plastic bags containing water, ice and pure oxygen. The fish will be delivered to your door via next day UPS. Minimum order when buying Koi is $50.00. To go back to the Koi Standard Sales Page Click Here |
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