Re: Extra large UK bred Koi!
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Hi Captk and frederick
Thanks for your early replies.
I have felt her/his belly and it's quite firm and when I ran my hand to 'milk' her/him and there was a black tionged liquid that started to seep a little. But the fish also flapped a bit when I did that.
I have noticed her coasting around with other Koi following her with their noses nudging her belly in the vent area but nothing has come of it this last week.
However in late May she was fat for a while then she suddenly went thin, I supposed she had laid eggs but were eaten more or less straight away. this had happened before in recent years. I put her age about 10 years by the way.
Her abdomen is swollen like a football rather than the length of her belly and has been swollen longer than the last time in May.
The food I feed her and the others are fishsticks (Multi colour), all theother fish seem OK with it.
I will check her gills when it is light (it's 0430 at the moment!) But her actions are quite normal except for her 'restless' pectoral fin movements, short and quicker than normal.
Is she waiting for the right circumstaces to lay? I would hate to think she/he is suffering.