Hi

Has anyone on this forum heard about or used this product before?
If so, where would you buy this from in South Africa ?



Use Ovaprim® to:

• Induce maturation within a spawning season
  
  
• Advance spawning date
  
  
• Coordinate and synchronize spawning times
  
  
• Increase milt production including increased sperm count
  
  
• Induce maturation in difficult species
  
  
• Induce spawning in the most important and difficult to spawn species
  

Never heard of it before.

Is anyone aware of any other method of inducing spawning with Koi ?

the few times I did do spawning I changed their conditions.

Putting them in a spawning pond usually works.

And adding a sprayer will also help I have heard.

But I am sure Paul will be around shortly to give you some good advise.

The problem really lies with one of my females who had not spawned for a few years now. I can see she is full of eggs though.

The best way to induce spawning is to simulate nature.
There must be a drop in the temperature of the water and then a good rise in temperature, followed with rain and an abundance of food.

In a pond it is best to float some spawning brushes (90% submerged) and secured to the side of the pond.
In the early morning of a hot day, remove 10 % of the water and add fresh.
This is normally enough to stimulate the fish to spawn.
Check the spawning brushes...and when covered with sticky eggs...remove and place in a pond about 20cm deep.

If you have a fish that is egg bound, the fish can be stripped GENTLY by hand.

I am breeding every year and never had the need to use hormones. When a sharp rise of temperature is expected the next day, I put two males and a female in the spawning tank filled with fresh water to about 40cm, add a good supply of oxygen, add spawning material, and nine out of ten times, they spawn the following morning or at least the morning thereafter.

Provided of course that you had at least five consequative days with at least 21 degrees C.

If you want to spawn in the pond, do a good waterchange a day before a rise in temperature is expected, lower the water level to create a rise in water temperature, add spawning material, and the chanches are good that they will spawn the next day, especially if it rained the previous day.

Don't under estimate the power of the full moon. The Japs believe in it, so I do. They have all the experience.