Catching goldfish?
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yeah its a butterfly koi. they do eat worms. like goldfish they eat pretty much anything. and especially in the wild were food is little they'll eat whatever they can find.
koi butterfly arent worth as much. bigger doesnt always mean the higher the price. its more about quality. but regardless you can get money off from it.
i would bring some koi food and throw it in front of it see if it eats. do that for several days till it knows your friendly. and within time once he see's you. he will come up to you and knows its food time. koi's are friendly fish. then use some kind of big net and net it.
but i would just leave it alone if it was me. it makes the creek better to watch with a nice koi swimming in it. and i would personally feed him whenever im at the creek.
but looks like your into the money more. good luck.
koi butterfly arent worth as much. bigger doesnt always mean the higher the price. its more about quality. but regardless you can get money off from it.
i would bring some koi food and throw it in front of it see if it eats. do that for several days till it knows your friendly. and within time once he see's you. he will come up to you and knows its food time. koi's are friendly fish. then use some kind of big net and net it.
but i would just leave it alone if it was me. it makes the creek better to watch with a nice koi swimming in it. and i would personally feed him whenever im at the creek.
but looks like your into the money more. good luck.
yeah its a butterfly koi. they do eat worms. like goldfish they eat pretty much anything. and especially in the wild were food is little they'll eat whatever they can find.
koi butterfly arent worth as much. bigger doesnt always mean the higher the price. its more about quality. but regardless you can get money off from it.
i would bring some koi food and throw it in front of it see if it eats. do that for several days till it knows your friendly. and within time once he see's you. he will come up to you and knows its food time. koi's are friendly fish. then use some kind of big net and net it.
but i would just leave it alone if it was me. it makes the creek better to watch with a nice koi swimming in it. and i would personally feed him whenever im at the creek.
but looks like your into the money more. good luck.
It doesn't seem like you have any sort of experience fishing for koi and carp at all. How many koi have you netted from the wild? How many koi have you netted like this even in a domesticated pond? You can't befriend a wild fish of any sort. And you can't net any big fish even with the biggest net you can find. That's a ridiculous idea. And to say butterfly koi aren't worth much? It depends on quality? What do you mean by quality? The value of a koi depends on several factors, size and color are a couple of them. So you mean you would pay the same for a 5" koi or a 18" koi? Go and do some real research before you give anyone advice.
^^^ this. A generic 3" butterfly koi of 'poor quality' is still an $8-10 fish, they're fairly slow growing and can be difficult and takes years to get them to lengths of 18" fish. this is NO cheap fish at that size even if it looked like crap
It doesn't seem like you have any sort of experience fishing for koi and carp at all. How many koi have you netted from the wild? How many koi have you netted like this even in a domesticated pond? You can't befriend a wild fish of any sort. And you can't net any big fish even with the biggest net you can find. That's a ridiculous idea. And to say butterfly koi aren't worth much? It depends on quality? What do you mean by quality? The value of a koi depends on several factors, size and color are a couple of them. So you mean you would pay the same for a 5" koi or a 18" koi? Go and do some real research before you give anyone advice.
i have caught carps from a creek before and yes with a net with 2 people. but i never fished a actual koi. i have had koi's before. they are some of the most friendly fish out there. my koi used to come up to me when i come by. well since you think i have no experience you must be super professional.
looks like you dont know much about koi's. you can have the biggest koi in the world. but if it doesnt have nice pattern and thickness its pretty much nothing special but the size. if you talk to any real koi keeper they would tell you quality is better than size. thats why you see koi's costing thousands up to 50k. and some arent even HUGE. butterfly koi's are pretty. but most of them lack nice patterns like the regular koi's. thats why you dont see them often as regular koi's. are arent worth as much.
and yes your advice is so much better? whats wrong with my advice anyways? he simply asked and i gave my opinion. its not even ridiculous. he did mention the creek is about 30" wide or something if i remember correctly. so yes it would be easy with the biggest net in the world..but obviously you cant because you think its impossible.
Koi will eat anything you give them. Damn things at the store eat small goldfish and crickets. They are more of a scavanger. Ive caught carp on chicken liver, worms, artifical baits that look like minnows. You name it they eat it.
i believe he said 30' not 30" but i could be mistaken.... nobody said thousands of dollars, pretty much any koi that size is at least worth a couple hundred
i believe he said 30' not 30" but i could be mistaken.... nobody said thousands of dollars, pretty much any koi that size is at least worth a couple hundred
X2 He said 30' not 30". That's why you must read things carefully. And yes, nobody is going to dump a 50k fish into a creek. I've caught wild koi, and they are the more common variety. A wild koi is very different than a domesticated one. A koi is nothing more than a carp with color. Can you befriend a wild carp? I've seen plenty of wild koi and there is no way you can befriend one. It's like trying to pet a wild cat.
