Koi
If you’re koi crazy, or simply looking to add a few koi to your existing pond, then this is the section for you. Find information on koi filters, koi pond water quality, koi varieties and lots lots more koi stuff.
Understanding the koi’s digestive system The more we know and understand about certain aspects of our life, the more we [...]
Interpreting Koi Food Labels As consumers, we’ve never had access to as much information abut our purchases than we do [...]
Koi Food – Functional Ingredients A koi food is formulated to satisfy many different demands – performing a host of [...]
Koi Nutrition: How different ingredients are used to formulate different types of food. Our koi depend upon us for a [...]
Koi Nutrition: 1. Back to Basics. Koi are just like any other fish or animal in that they have particular [...]
Koi Food Types. Fried, scrambled, poached, or boiled (soft or hard). Eggs are such a convenient, tasty and versatile food [...]
Koi Food and Diets Koi and all other fish are just like us in that they have particular dietary requirements. [...]
Koi Growth I remember at school, when asked to write a story as part of an English exercise, immediately asking [...]
How to feed your koi. Feeding time is arguably the most enjoyable koi keeping activity. It brings koi and koi [...]
How to enhance your Koi’s colour The ornamental aquatic hobby exists because of our enchantment with the striking beauty of [...]
How feeding can affect water quality Every environment shares problems if the inputs into the system are out of balance [...]
Koi Food Innovations When we read terms such as ‘innovative’ or ‘technologically advanced’, we expect to hear them used with [...]
Feeding for Health The two most widely debated topics amongst koi keepers are nutrition and filtration. This is very understandable [...]
Feeding for Growth. Living in a world where biggest is best and quantity dominates quality, it stands to reason that [...]
Feeding for koi colour Feeding koi should not simply be regarded as satisfying their hunger. It is an opportunity. We [...]
Utsuri, Bekko, Koromo and Shusui In the same way that many hundreds of different varieties of dogs have been bred, [...]
Sources of Koi Just as China is renowned for its tea, Italy for its pasta and France for its wine, [...]
Metallic Koi varieties Metallic Koi are probably the most eye-catching of all koi varieties. Whether it is their resemblance to [...]
Koi. What are they and where have they come from? Koi is an abbreviation of nishikigoi, a general term given [...]
Koi Lingo One of the many challenges of keeping koi, besides keeping them fit and healthy can be understanding and [...]
The Big Three Koi Varieties – Go Sanke Go Sanke is the collective name given to describe the 3 most [...]
Ghost Koi A new variety of koi appeared in the trade in the early 1980’s under the intriguing name of [...]
Koi Keeping A-Z: W-Z Water Quality A short entry in an encyclopaedia cannot do the topic of water quality justice. [...]
Koi Keeping A-Z: U-V Undergravel Filtration A method of filtration that is perhaps best-suited to aquaria where maintenance is quite [...]
Koi Keeping A-Z: T Tapeworm Tapeworms are one of the largest parasites to affect koi. Living in the intestine or [...]
Koi Keeping A-Z: Q-S Quarantine: Quarantine is the procedure where newly imported or purchased Koi are subjected to a period [...]
Koi Keeping A-Z: P Parasite Just as a predator attacks and eats its prey, and a scavenger lives off dead [...]
Koi Keeping A-Z: O Omnivore. A term given to describe an animal that eats both animal and plant material. Inheriting [...]
Koi Keeping A-Z: N Netting (Noun) Netting is a must to prevent koi being attacked, injured or removed by predators, [...]
Koi Keeping A-Z: M Malachite Green Malachite is an intense dark green dye that is widely used in the treatment [...]
Koi Keeping A-Z: L Lateral Line The lateral line is similar to a dot-to-dot picture, where the dots found along [...]
Koi Keeping A-Z: J & K Jumping An activity that koi keepers would rather not see in their koi. Very [...]
Koi Keeping A-Z: H & I Hormones From the Latin word for ‘arouse’. Hormones are regulatory substances that are released [...]
Koi Keeping A-Z: G Genetics Genetics is the science of inheritance. Although the production of artificially occurring ornamental fish started [...]
Koi Keeping A-Z: F Fibreglass Considered to be the ultimate way of finishing of a koi pond, fibreglass offers many [...]
Koi Keeping A-Z: E Easter Traditionally, Easter is the time that signals the start of the pond season in the [...]
Koi Keeping A-Z: D D is for Depressing! The majority of the D’s seem to be negative – disease, dropsy, [...]
Koi Keeping A-Z: C Carp This is where it all started. A dull, black/grey food fish with a natural geographical [...]
Koi Keeping A-Z: B Bacteria (Plural of bacterium) We can’t see them, smell them or hear them yet their existence [...]
Koi Keeping A-Z: A Aeration. Aeration is vital in the artificially stocked koi pond to maintain sufficient oxygen concentration in [...]
Niigata – The Place Niigata is respected worldwide as the centre of the koi keeping hobby. The Niigata Prefecture is [...]
Niigata – The Koi Farmers Every single koi that is produced in Niigata, Japan, is the culmination of generations of [...]
Niigata – The Koi When travelling through Niigata in search of koi to bring back to the UK, it’s not [...]
Niigata. The Birthplace of Koi. Some of the world’s greatest discoveries were discovered quite by accident. Penicillin, X-Rays, Teflon and [...]
Koi From Different Origins. I want to purchase some more koi for my pond as I haven’t bought any for [...]
Showing Koi for the first time: Q: I want to exhibit my koi but don’t know where to start? I [...]
Clubs and Societies One of the many appeals of fishkeeping is that it can be enjoyed by such a wide [...]
Golden rules for choosing koi and pond fish. Most pondkeepers have experienced some problems or have heard of other people’s [...]
Buying koi – From here, there or anywhere? I am relatively new to koi keeping and only have a few [...]
Farming Koi for a living – Part 5. Growing on fry, harvesting and selling Last month we had successfully spawned [...]
How to Farm Koi for a living. Spawning koi and raising fry – Part 2 It’s now time to get [...]
Koi Farming 3. How do you farm koi? – Part 1 By now you will have spent many thousands of [...]
Step 2: What do you need to farm koi? I have farmed koi on a hi-tech farm that was already [...]
Step 10 – Breeding Koi. Having followed the previous 9 steps to successful koi keeping, the final step – koi [...]
Step 9: Understanding the Koi’s Calendar. Koi have a fascinating physiology that responds to changes in their environment in a [...]
10 steps to koi keeping success: avoiding and confronting common problems. The vast majority of problems in a koi pond [...]
Step 7 – Filtration. Installing a filter is the price we have to pay for wanting to keep koi in [...]
Step 6 – Food and feeding. As koi keepers, feeding koi is one of our most enjoyable activities. It represents [...]
Step 5: Disease – Diagnosing and Treating Unfortunately, it is a fact of life that disease will inevitably affect every [...]
Step 4 – Maintaining health and preventing disease. In the 4th part of the 10 steps to successful koi keeping [...]
Step 3 – Koi Husbandry. Good husbandry skills are an essential part of successful koi keeping and may involve less [...]
Step 2. Providing Koi with the conditions that they require. Having established the environmental requirements for koi in step one [...]
Step one. Creating the perfect pond environment. We should never lose sight of the fact that koi are living organisms [...]
Everything you need to know about breeding koi and pond fish Perhaps after keeping and growing koi successfully, the next [...]
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As koi grow into the size of a pond and mature, they may try to breed. What is possible or advisable in a pond?


































































