Have two silver aros, they measure about 2.5 feet. Here's one of them:
They are in a 10ft round indoor pond (pond build thread in my sig), they were rescues a month back and live currently with a pair of similarly sized ID sharks and one foot long Gray Giant Gourami. All is well and everyone is getting along (except for minor spats between the 2 silvers who grew up together in a 100G) until I decided to buy some Koi over the weekend, just wanted to get some color in the pond I guess.
I got 4 pcs foot long ones, and a white one that was a bit smaller. After putting them in the pond, 1 of the silvers started chasing the small white one, I had to net him in and put him quickly in one of the grow out tanks before he became lunch.
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Here's my problem: This is my first time to take care of kois and I didn't realize that they were constant swimmers, they swim kinda fast and hard too. My pair of silver aros seem to be easily spooked by these 4 kois as when they school together and when they swin towards the aros, the aros get spook, splash the surface and dart away.
Did I make a wrong decision in adding kois to my pond? Will the aros eventually "accept" the kois for who they are and get used to these busy bodies? Or should I immediately get rid of the kois lest the silvers end up jumping? Yikes.
Currently, I cover the pond with a big tarp at night and uncover it during the day, but today, I left the tarp on.
Inputs please...
They are in a 10ft round indoor pond (pond build thread in my sig), they were rescues a month back and live currently with a pair of similarly sized ID sharks and one foot long Gray Giant Gourami. All is well and everyone is getting along (except for minor spats between the 2 silvers who grew up together in a 100G) until I decided to buy some Koi over the weekend, just wanted to get some color in the pond I guess.
I got 4 pcs foot long ones, and a white one that was a bit smaller. After putting them in the pond, 1 of the silvers started chasing the small white one, I had to net him in and put him quickly in one of the grow out tanks before he became lunch.
(not actual picture..
)
Here's my problem: This is my first time to take care of kois and I didn't realize that they were constant swimmers, they swim kinda fast and hard too. My pair of silver aros seem to be easily spooked by these 4 kois as when they school together and when they swin towards the aros, the aros get spook, splash the surface and dart away.
Did I make a wrong decision in adding kois to my pond? Will the aros eventually "accept" the kois for who they are and get used to these busy bodies? Or should I immediately get rid of the kois lest the silvers end up jumping? Yikes.
Currently, I cover the pond with a big tarp at night and uncover it during the day, but today, I left the tarp on.
Inputs please...
thought this was pretty well known, but you see the mix every once and awhile. 