keeping koi fry

my koi spawned in a small pond I removed plants with eggs attached they
have hatched in a rubbermade container, I let them feed off egg sacks
for the first couple of days and am now feeding them frozen brine
shrimp and alge pellets. the bottom of the tub is very dirty from plant
roots dirt etc. how do i keep the tub clean, so water does not get
contaminated or to dirty ??

RJ

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my koi spawned in a small pond I removed plants with eggs attached they
have hatched in a rubbermade container, I let them feed off egg sacks
for the first couple of days and am now feeding them frozen brine
shrimp and alge pellets. the bottom of the tub is very dirty from plant
roots dirt etc. how do i keep the tub clean, so water does not get
contaminated or to dirty ??

RJ
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A small air driven sponge filter would help tremendously. I raise the fry
in those $10 shallow kiddy pools from Wal*Mart with air driven filters.
Then at about a month of age they're moved to 680g pools with a regular
filter run by a protected water-pump. The pump is between two plastic pond
plant baskets and wired closed.

Siphoning the bottom would be great if you can be careful and not suck up
the fry.
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thanks for your responce, I guess the bigger the area the eaiser to
clean,I tryed to syphon out but kept sucking out the fry,as they are
only several days old. I will look into a small air driven filter, I do
have an air pump introducing bubbles to the water. will the filter not
suck up the fish???

Rj

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thanks for your responce, I guess the bigger the area the eaiser to
clean,I tryed to syphon out but kept sucking out the fry,as they are
only several days old. I will look into a small air driven filter, I do
have an air pump introducing bubbles to the water. will the filter not
suck up the fish???
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No. Sponge filters run by air diffuse the suction too much to suck the
babies to the sponge. Be generous and get a LARGE sponge filter. Don't run
it like crazy while they're small because they exhaust easily. Keep it at
one end. They don't like roiling water. They need an area where there's no
current.
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do you have a name or manufacturer of an air filter ??

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do you have a name or manufacturer of an air filter ??
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I bought mine from mail order catalogs some years ago. They last for ages
if you don't twist them clean. Just squeeze them out in clean water. It
was either That Fish Place or Foster & Smith aquarium catalog where I found
them. I'm sure you can find aquarium+sponge+filters with a little Googling.
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