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Practical Tips for Selecting Young Fry When Keeping Koi
After hatching, koi fry are raised for about 20 days to 1 month, and when the fish body reaches about 3 cm, selection must be carried out. The purpose of selection is to remove the inferior and keep the superior, strengthen the growth rate, and thereby protect the genetic traits. Therefore, selecting young fry is the
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Treatment experience for common diseases in home koi keeping
The treatment methods for koi diseases mainly include oral administration, medicated bathing, smearing, injection and surgical treatment. 1. Oral administration: a treatment method in which the medicine is mixed into the feed and fed, mainly treating nutritional disorders, bacterial diseases and internal diseases of the fish. Commonly used medicines
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How to Keep Ornamental Koi? A Detailed Guide to Breeding Methods
As life gets better and better, many people today have started keeping ornamental fish, and ornamental koi are a common type of ornamental fish. So what are the methods for keeping ornamental koi? 1. Feeding: they like to eat live fish or fish worms and the like; if there are no live fish worms,
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[The Most Complete Koi Keeping Experience!] Teaching you how to choose koi keeping equipment, select koi fish, choose a koi fish tank, and handle water quality
In recent years, koi have become increasingly popular in China. Want to learn more about koi keeping experience? Then follow along with the editor to learn how to choose koi keeping equipment, how to select koi fish, how to choose a koi fish tank, and how to handle koi water quality! 1.
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How to keep koi alive: using the right water and maintaining good water quality are key
The most important thing when keeping koi is water, because the quality of the water determines the survival rate of koi. So what water should be used to keep koi from dying? How do you maintain the water? 1. What water to use for keeping koi 1. Tap water: The water we most commonly see in daily life is tap water, and many uninformed koi keepers use tap water directly to keep koi, which brings certain harm to the koi. In fact, tap water is a water source that has undergone disinfection treatment, and the water contains too many chloride ions, so it cannot be used directly for keeping fish. It needs to be treated before being used to keep koi. Generally, the sun-drying method is used: place the tap water in an open, ventilated area, and rely on the flow of air and sunlight to let the residual chlorine in the water evaporate, while also increasing the dissolved oxygen content in the water.
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Be on Guard Against Copper and Zinc Poisoning in Koi Keeping
I believe none of you will be surprised by this: copper and zinc in the water will kill koi. Of course, this is not news to me either. What I mean is, before you heard the story about a copper-connected heater releasing a large amount of copper into the water and thus killing all the koi, had you ever thought that copper and zinc could kill your koi? Perhaps many of us have not yet heard such a story. Before telling you these things, let me first review some of my own history. Of course, I have been keeping koi for quite a long time.
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What fish can koi be kept with? What you need to know for pond keeping
1. Courtyard breeding pond (1) Courtyard koi breeding generally uses a square, rectangular or circular concrete pond, and the breeding pond can be built on open ground in the courtyard or on the roof (2) It should be easy to drain and discharge waste, ventilated and sunny, with sufficient water source, convenient water supply and drainage, and away from...
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Are Peacock Koi easy to keep? A full analysis of their keeping difficulty
Introduction to Peacock Koi. The Peacock Koi is a type of Hikarimoyo Koi; Hikarimoyo Koi are generally a new variety obtained by crossing patterned koi with Ogon (golden) koi. The Peacock Koi, however, was produced by crossing Showa Sanshoku with Ogon, so to a certain extent the Peacock...
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Is Koi Scratching Against the Tank a Sign of Saprolegniasis? A Detailed Guide to Koi Keeping Methods
Is koi scratching against the tank a sign of saprolegniasis? First, let us understand the symptoms of saprolegniasis. Water mold is widely found in freshwater or brackish water bodies and moist soil around the world. It lives as a saprophyte on dead organic matter and is a commonly present mold, mainly including the order Saprolegniales...
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Koi Keeping Precautions and Symptoms of Koi Enteritis
What are the symptoms of koi enteritis? First, let's understand what enteritis disease is: enteritis disease, also known as rotten intestine plague, is a relatively common and widespread bacterial disease. It can harm various ornamental fish, and of course it is also very harmful to fish...
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