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 [...]