Experience packaging and transporting Japanese Koi to the Customers

            Did u know how much Japanese Koi price in the market?? u will suprise like i do if u know it, did u believe that when i said a koi weight around 3kg can reach a price around RM 20,000-50,000 each....u r shock right? u can buy a car or house if u have 10 of them. I'm lucky to know Koi pond owner in Sg. Gabai that breeder this kind of koi.. They also give me some of champion Koi kids as sourviner to me...hehe lucky right. I also follow him sort out, packing and send the fish to their customer. Follow me how they pack and the right procedure to transfer this fish.

(1) Sort out breeders and small fish from the pond

(2) Fill oxygen into plastic bag

(3) Add some medicine into the plastic bag to avoid stress and other infection

(4) Transport the fish to the customer

Customer house with red Ferrari

He so exited when his fish arrive 

(5) Release into owner pond

(6) Second customer house

(7) Release the fish into separated tank before introduce into the big pond.

           I'm so lucky today because of the kindness of Mr Azmi, i got some expensive koi kids from Champion breeders.Oyehhhh..They will be happy with their new owner ...Welcome to UPM

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Breeding Japanese Koi & Kelah Consultancy Sg. Gabai

Salam and Evening...

            I just come back from Sg. Gabai, Ulu Langat....I was invited to give consultancy about Kelah by their owner Mr Azmi from Mr Koi Farm company. We talk about our plan to breed Kelah Bara in their pond in the future. After finish discussion, i was lucky because at that time they plan to induce spawning to their Japanese Koi in their pond. I exited to know and learn how to breed them. Follow me what they are doing:

(1) Sort out male and female breeders from main tanks

(2)  Choose potential breeders

(3) Anesthetic the breeders

(4) Record their weight and length

(5)  1 female to the ratio of 2 male

(6) Check maturity of male and female breeders

 

Different between Female and Male breeders

(7) Inject the male and female with specific volume depend on their weight

(8) After injection transfer the breeders into spawning tank that containing artificial substrate for spawning condition, this fish will spawn after 12 hour post injection and on the next day after 24 PI we need to separate the breeders and wait the egg in incubator. The eggs will hatch around 3-4 days post spawning and produce small fry.

            Today i learn a good lesson and will practice it in the future. Thank you owners of the pond because kindly invited me and not "kedekut" share their knowledge about this expensive Japanese Koi breeding.

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White Spot problem solved & new members added

 Surprise...

Today is a good day for my fish,,,Did u remember previously that half of my fish was attacked by white spot..What i done?? u can search my previous post Tag How to treat White spot my own way...

Look!! they live happily in a good condition right..

Due to happiness that i gain, i want to add more species to my aquarium and some ranges of betta in separated aquarium.. This time i try to breed Betta, Guppy, Rummynose, swordtail and Goldfish..Check it out guys..

Rummynose

New members, a pair of Goldfish

Female doubletail Betta

Male halfmoon Betta

Female halfmoon Betta

Some swordtail, tetra and Betta

We wait and what happen to them..Hopefully they will breed and honeymoon in my room..I wait for u guys to have babies..

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African Catfish become my baby

Salam and Morning,,,,

Today is a nice weekend, mix with exited moment when all the African catfish eggs hatched this morning. They all look cute after hatch. 98% of them hatch and only small batch whitish eggs observed. The yolk greenish brown in colour, as i stated in my previous post that greenish eggs are immature is depend on our observation either they are totally greenish or greenish with brown. Greenish brown is also good eggs quality.

Coagulated fertilized eggs yesterday

Remember that i said before that about coagulated eggs?? They can still hatch but need strong aeration to help the hatch fry release from attached eggs. After all of them hatch give slow aeration.

They are cute right, leave ur like if u wanna to adopt them...:) Then i will try my best to take care of them. mmmm i need to prepare green water for them to eat after 2-3 days they will finish absorb their yolk.

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African Catfish Breeding

Assalamualaikum And Good Evening,,

Today i was given a task to demonstrated and teach undergraduate student how to practice artificial propagation in African catfish. First of all we need to know about African catfish. Scientific name of African catfish is Clarias gariepinus. Before we further doing breeding, we need to know how to differentiate male and female breeders.

Female (Left)    Male (Right)

Genital papillae for male is protruding and coned shape, for female is rounded shape. To doing breeding, we need to choose gravid (matured) female and male. How to know it already gravid?? By looking at their external appearance, we can see genital papillae of male reddish and for female reddish and also the abdomen is bloated and smooth. After choosing the right gravid fish, we need to acclimatize the fish together in a tank or aquarium one week prior to breeding activity or injection.

To do the breeding for example today this morning at 9 am, we need to inject it 8-12 hour prior to injection. So last night around 12-1 am, me and a squad doing injection for the class today. From my reading about this breeding activity good to do at night and injection in the evening. Below is the steps:

(1) Weighing the fish

(2) Calculate amount of hormone based on their weight (Female 0.5 ml/kg, Male 0.25 ml/kg)

(3) Suck out the hormone with proper size of needle and syringe

(4) Intramuscular injection near dorsal fin of the fish

(5) Transfer injected male and female into separated tanks or aquarium to avoid fighting and disturbed the female.

Breeding night squad

In the next day i have opportunity to demonstrate and teach how to do artificial propagation in African Catfish.  After finish briefing we continue the breeding activity.

Briefing

(1) Check maturity of the female (green colour eggs = immature, brownish or brownish pinkish = matured)

Ready matured female

(2)  Stripping

A Thailand student holding the fish for stripping process 

Matured eggs after stripping

 (3) Male operation to take out gonad (milt and sperm)

use sharp knife and make small cut

Then use sharp scissor to make big open

Cut both gonads

Wash the gonads with freshwater to avoid contamination

(4) Make small pieces cut of the gonads into gauze

(5)  Squeeze the gonads to take milt into a bowl containing eggs 

(6) Dry method fertilization

 (7) Add some freshwater

 (8) Distribute the fertilized eggs into incubation aquarium, better to have mosquito net.

Done,,, then i'm going to observed it.  I take it some sample then observed it in my room...

Because of long time sample in the sampling bottle the eggs coagulated

We will see it will hatch or not Tomorrow...

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