How many carp love in a pond?

How many carp love in a pond? How many grass carp do you need in a pond? Through this micro-guide on grass carp, we will deal with the density of carp in a pond. For the record, this carp comes from the love river in China ( Yang tse Kiang) . An amur carp grows twice as fast as a koi carp.

Many specialists recommend grass carp to clean a pond. Be careful, however, to take the pros and cons of these fish. It's not always the best solution. This carp feeds on algae, but there are also risks that they attack your water lilies.

To prevent it from devouring your aquatic plants, we recommend that you feed it with pellets. It can feed on filamentous algae.

Amur carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella)

It is a grass carp native to China. It is mainly present in Chinese rivers. The adult female can lay more than 500,000 eggs.

• Family: Cyprinidae.
• Genus: Ctenopharyngodon
• Species: idella

It is used to fight against the invasion of aquatic plants. This carp loves "potamots" and filamentous algae. It is a fish sensitive to stress and disturbances. She doesn't like to be moved. It can reach in 6 months a size of 30CM. It can reach 70CM in 3 years.

• Life expectancy of the love carp: 30 years
• Adult height: 150CM

Did you know that she can eat her weight in vegetables in a single day. Crazy right?! She has an inefficient digestive system. If you want to keep seagrass in your pond to help fish spawn, grass carp is best avoided. At least, reduce the number of specimens.

There are 3 truths of love carp:

• white love carp
• albino love carp
• silver amur carp

Grass carp grow rapidly and reach a maximum weight of 35 kg in the wild.

How much does an amur carp cost?

An amur carp does not cost very much. It takes about ten euros for a specimen of about ten centimeters. Count rather a hundred euros for a size of 40CM.

How many love carp do you need in a pond?

Grass carp are usually stocked in ponds at rates ranging from 1 to 2 per 10,000M². This rate generally eliminates all submerged aquatic plants and most emerged aquatic plants within 2 years.

This rate or even a higher stocking rate is appropriate for an irrigation pond or a fish farming pond because a pond manager in these situations generally prefers no submerged or emergent aquatic plants.

If you just want to plant them and keep your aquatic plants. It will be necessary to reduce the quantity of herbivorous carp per M².