transporting eggs safely?

estanque_koi · Post by **estanque_koi** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 1:00 am

Is it possible to transport a large amount of eggs from a spawn safely?
Any experience on this?
Would it work if transported in bags with water+oxygen+zeolyte, inside of well insulated boxes? ... assuming water parmeters are similar in both tanks (source and destination)
Diego

Bob Hart · Post by **Bob Hart** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 8:46 am

Diego,

Couple of years back I transported a spawning brush loaded with eggs. I used a large polystyrene Koi box with water in it, just put the brush in there folded double. Once home I put into a prepered pond, if I remember correctly I treated with Malachite green and the eggs all hatched out as per normal.

estanque_koi · Post by **estanque_koi** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 1:51 am

That is interesting Bob. Can you remember approximately how many hours were the eggs in the box?
One more question, you mentioned spawning brushes. I have read something about that, if I remember correctly belonging to some conifer species (maybe cedar, juniper...). What kind of plant species did your spawning brushes belong to?
Diego

Bob Hart · Post by **Bob Hart** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 9:16 am

Hi Diego,

I would say the spawning brush and eggs were in the box for approx. 4-hours. It was a 3-hour car journey and there was time eaither side loading/unloading etc.

Species of brush, I'd guess at it's latin name as 'plasticus spikeyus' - purchased from ebay. 7 were put in with the Koi, I just took one brush away with me, leaving the other 6 with Duncan.

Post by **B.Scott** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 5:53 pm

They have used conifer branches in the past but the normal method is to use soft plastic brushes as Bob shows a picture of in the post above.

B.Scott

estanque_koi · Post by **estanque_koi** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 10:46 pm

This is the stuff I've been using, actually they are Christmas
decorations.

Inside there is a metallic wire, so far was safe but I think it is because this media is kept just a short time in the water. Well, last year I leave it for around 20 days in a pool with unintersting fry, they liked to forage on this ornament.
It can be sterilised and re-used.
However I was wondering whether there is any kind of plant whose branches could be used safely as spawning media and that can be easily found. I have read about Juniperus, but leaves are a bit bristly. I don't like using plants like Eichornia or Pistia.
Diego