Deng Runqiu: "one in a hundred" raises a good koi.

Deng Runqiu shows off his koi.

Workers are picking fry.

Koi, the title of "King of Ornamental Fish", is a noble large-scale ornamental fish with colorful and colorful patterns, coupled with low requirements for water quality and easy reproduction, which is loved by many fish lovers. In Tuhu Village, Longtan Town, Deng Runqiu invested in building a koi farm, specializing in breeding and breeding koi.

Some koi fish sell for more than ten thousand yuan

Enter Deng Runqiu's farm, you can see large and small open-air fish ponds and indoor fish ponds. In indoor fish ponds, fish ponds are numbered, different fish ponds keep different sizes of koi. Workers are sitting on the edge of the fish pond selecting fry. Qualified fry are put into oxygenated fish tanks, while unqualified fry are put into barrels, frozen and fed to turtles.

In the outdoor fish pond, oxygenators regularly make sounds, and colorful, swimming koi can be seen underwater. "This Showa koi costs more than 10,000 yuan. The price of koi is related to the size, texture and pattern of the fish." In the outdoor fish pond, Deng Runqiu pointed to the pool length of about 40 cm koi told reporters, his farm koi varieties mainly have Zhaohe, red and white, Dazheng three varieties.

Deng Runqiu introduced that these koi are his own use of breeding fish breeding out. The farm has been under construction since 2010 and has more than 20 fish ponds, of which the indoor fish pond covers an area of more than 1200 square meters. At present, the farm has six or seven workers and produces nearly 20,000 fish every year.

The koi seed fish in Deng Runqiu Farm generally produce eggs twice a year, and reproduce about 1.8 million fish flowers in one round. The survival rate is about 50%, that is, about 900,000 fish flowers will survive, and then they will finally become qualified ornamental koi after three times of selection. After the first selection time is 35 days, the fish flowers will grow into finger-sized fry, and only about 5% of fry will be qualified. The second and third selection will be carried out within one year. Each time only 40%~50% pass rate, finally down, a round of breeding qualified koi close to 10,000.

The excellent water quality in Longmen prompted him to decide to fish for his career

How did Deng Runqiu "see" koi culture? Originally, Deng Runqiu is Dongguan Humen people, has been very fond of raising koi, home large and small fish tanks, fish ponds have raised koi, usually through reading professional books, listening to friends explain, their own groping and so on master and improve fish farming technology.

A chance opportunity, Deng Runqiu and friends to Longmen play, found Longmen ecological environment is good, water quality is excellent, very suitable for breeding koi. Therefore, after returning to Dongguan, he discussed with his family and decided to invest in the construction of koi farms in Longmen. Deng Runqiu asked his friends to introduce two excellent species of fish from Japan and began to explore breeding techniques.

After a while, Deng Runqiu discovered that raising koi in fish tanks and raising koi in farms are two different things. Farm breeding pays more attention to large-scale breeding and unified management. After several years of continuous research and exploration, Deng Runqiu finally mastered a set of relatively mature koi breeding techniques. Now, his koi have been sold all over the country, he also opened a koi sales department in Dongguan to be responsible for the farm koi sales work.

"There were customers from Inner Mongolia and Beijing who came to our farm to buy koi fry." Deng Runqiu told reporters that his farm has achieved initial success, not only in China, even in Southeast Asia and other places have been actively asked.