How often do koi breed?

How often do koi breed?


I think it depends on the temperature of the place. because base in my experience in our place which is tropical country. We can breed koi the whole year round. We just separate the female from the males and feed them lots and lots of high protein foods, specially live foods like daphnia, mosquito larvae, snails, earth worm etc. 

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