Fish Health
Are your fish off-colour? Are some behaving strangely? How do you treat fin rot, parasites or fungus? Why are your fish sulking? What caused some of your fish to develop ulcers? How do you treat them successfully?
What if…..a koi develops an ulcer? Unfortunately, the numbers of koi suffering from ulcers has increased over recent years. The [...]
What if…out of the blue, a koi suddenly dies. Not a very pleasant headline, but all the same a very [...]
Stress-busting in pond fish. Preventing disease. Fishkeeping should be available on prescription from the NHS. Scientifically proven to cause a [...]
What if …..My pond fish or koi keep on flicking and scratching? Ooh, down a bit, down a bit, a [...]
What if…..my koi have lost their appetite? Koi keeping can put many unnatural pressures on koi that these artificially selected [...]
Koi Herpes Virus (KHV). What is it and how to respond? The koi keeping hobby in the UK is served [...]
First Aid for Pond Fish & Koi – What to do when things go wrong. Despite our very best efforts, [...]
How to keep pond fish and koi in good health and top condition. Many water gardeners or pondkeepers will inevitably [...]
What if…. A number of my koi appear to be bloated? Growing large and voluminous koi is the objective of [...]
Birds and Parasites into the garden pond. Q: My pond has a waterfall which returns my filtered water back to [...]
The koi skeleton. Koi are vertebrates, clearly benefiting from having an internal backbone and skeleton. Koi belong to the most [...]
Koi Skin and Scales Koi are blessed with a multi-layered external barrier consisting of both skin and scales that protects [...]
Pond fish Olfaction and Digestion ‘What can smell, but doesn’t have a nose? – Fish (ie kippers)’. OK, probably one [...]
Koi sight, eyes and sound. There may be a chance that last year’s hit movie, starring Bruce Willis was inspired [...]
Koi Metabolism and Temperature If you have ever visited a koi retailer in winter, you will have noticed how seasonal [...]
Kidneys and Liver – Caring for the Koi’s own filtration system. A koi’s physiology never rests. It is fighting an [...]
Head to tail trip over a koi’s external anatomy Koi have earned a status above other fish on the strength [...]
The function and interaction of pond fish gills with the pond keeper This is the first article in a series [...]