Hi Brenda. So good to see you back. Your right, the fish do need to be fed at 60*F. and as long as you have a large enough filtration system on the pond you...
feed lightly a couple of times a day. Use mostly steamed veggies for ease of digestion.There isn't algae to forage on inside. ... From: Brenda Rose To:...
Same as always, at 60 feed them what they will eat in 5 minutes, or a little less. That will be a rather small amount of feed. A couple of times a day. Stop...
At 60 degrees, the fish will be active enough to eat but not at summer levels. Try giving the fish a small amount of food and see how they react. Make sure...
Dear Lorraine, Sarah, Bill and Kevin, Thank you so much for your unanimous endorsement of feeding our koi this winter. (I don't know if you recall, but two...
Hi Brenda, By all means, you should feed your koi if you're going to keep them in 60* temp water. I meant to send this to you earlier, but forgot, so am doing...
Dear guys, Merry Christmas... My kois are fine even if it is cold. However, i have this little problem. My water source has a ph of 9. Im afraid to use it im...
Thanks, Don. I always appreciate any information that will help to keep our fish alive and well. I may have been overfeeding in the past two weeks because...
Brenda, What size food pellets are you using? If you're using a medium or large sized pellet, you just might be able to keep them happy and not overfeed them...
Brenda, How much filtration do you have on this pond? If I build a pond for someone lets say a 1000 gal pond. I will put filtration in it for a 2,500 gal pond....
Brenda, Change their diet to steamed veggies and they'll eat well a while longer. Cooked sweet potato, steamed zuchinni and squash even tofu... it's easy to...
me too, Felix and Ive heard messing with it and causing it to fluctuate is worse than having it be consistantly high. Joyce fsmaestral <fsmaestral@...>...
Hi Sarah. Thanks for the timely reminder. I was giving them watermelon and lettuce this summer, trying to keep them from denuding the plants (a futile...
Is that the ph of your water out of the tap? If so it MAY change if it sits for awhile. Is the pond ph 9? There have also been articles written on the...
Does everyone here feed their koi year round? Even tho I am in central TX, I usually stop feeding in Early Nov. For two years my koi have done well with this....
Don, tomorrow I'm going to actually measure what I give them in pellets and then time them to see how long it takes them to eat. The pellets are already quite...
Hi Dennis. This isn't a pond; it's the indoor fish spa we've set up to save our koi from the ravages of a Canadian winter. The vat holds 300 gallons and we...
Hi Barbara. Here in Canada we continued to feed our Koi until the water temperature reaches 50*F. at which point we stop all feeding until the spring when we...
Dear Barbara, My feeling is that if you're in a part of the world where there's no winter, your fish don't go into hibernation and therefore will need food....
Fasting will help the females re-absorb eggs that could make them eggbound otherwise. I don't feed in winter...but then my pond is only 43!! It sure would be...
Hiya I went to a specialist college to study fish and you can feed the koi etc on wheatgerm based foods if you wish up until they stop feeding and go to the...
As far south as you are you can feed most of the year. Watch the weather, and when a cold front is coming stop feeding a couple of days before. You don't...
Please help me save my goldfish from chronic high ammonia levels. They are acting mostly normal but have bloody fin tips mostly likely brown blood diasese....
add salt..1 lb per 100 gallons... it helps regulate osmosis and prevents brown blood disease. The goldies need a bit anyway. FEED SPARINGLY... actually not at...
Hi, Have you reegenerated the Ammo Chips? They will only remove a specific ammount of Ammonia from the water before becoming more of a liability to the fish...
Hi There. I'm so sorry to hear about your Goldfish. I suspect that the high ammonia levels could be from feeding too often and possibly too much. Because...
Any fisherman's fantasyis a prize catch leaping into their boots-but only if it isn't the dreaded Asian Carp.(which is Koi) According to scientist, the fear is...
Introduced species are a problem all over the world. Here in Fl. we have more than our share. Koi are pretty much an artificial fish, by that I mean within a...
Water changes, water changes and water changes. Get ammonia binder. Salt for brown blood. If you have no nitrates or nitrites your filter isn't working. Stop...
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