Once you have the ph where you want it, use crushed oyster shells to buffer/stabilize the ph. Depending on how your filter system is set up, you can place the...
Dear Dave, I'm not an expert by any stretch of the imagination, but up here we're told that anything between a measurement of 7.2 and 8.5 pH is considered...
After loosing every last one of my koi last season I have recovered from the devastation of that experience. It was frustrating, upsetting, saddening, and...
Doitsu is what Japanese call The German Scaled koi Or All The None- Normal Scaled Koi.The normal scaled koi is called a Wagoi,Doitsu have 3 types of scales 1....
Thanks, Ramil and the others who replied. To answer your question, my filter is at the top of the falls. Water comes in the bottom, passes through 3 filter...
Feeding you should check your pond if it is full of algae for food, and mosquito larvae if there are none once a week is too long forever it is okay if you are...
the problem when you stop the filter when it went back on it flushes amonia or nitrate not quite sure which is harmful. if you really want to save power try...
Don't play with the PH if your KH is up where it should be the PH will take care of itself. Highly aereating the water can even cause a high ph! Steady is...
3 times a week? Do you have any filtration? I feed mine 3 times/day or more..only as much as they can clean up in a few minutes time. They can eat a lot in a...
Thanks so much Eugen for the explanation. You seem to have much knowledge about koi. Suzette ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
I'm having a heron problem and wonder if anyone has any tips. He flies off when I go outside but eventually always comes back. I want to put a good scare into...
I will go along with your comments here. Feeding less than once per day is something that I only do when I see my water temp has dropped under 50 degrees or...
In our area the natural well water has a pH of 8.7. When I'm initialy setting up a pond in our area I reduce the pH with the use of muratic acid untill it...
some do put nets, others put like a green house of the plants. I saw one in a books covered with glass house. ramil ... want ... anyone ... and ... as...
I have heard that plastic owl can do womders for keeping some birds away. not sure about heron's though. They are protected birds in my area so I would...
Thanks, Dennis. Wow, muriatic acid sounds like a drastic step. According to others who have replied to my post, goldfish and Koi do well up to ph of 9.0. So...
I live next to a lake at the edge of a wildlife and bird sanctuary, so the wildlife - gulls, herons, hawks, pelicans, owls, ravens, ducks, geese, bears,fox,...
Hi Edgar. We lost several koi to our local heron population a few years ago and I tried a few anti-heron devices before I developed a system that works (touch...
A question for everyone. How many gallons of water do you allot per fish? I was initialy told that 1 gallon or inch of koi was a good ratio, Then I heard...
While I think it is traditional since the many varieties of KOI have come from Japan to use there Japeneese names I realy find it confusing. I had several...
Hi Brenda, That sounds like it might just work if at the correct height to keep it from going under or over which I guess would be about 2.5 feet. This guy is...
A tancho is a redspot on the top of the head. Any number of types could have a tancho marking and would be called a ' tancho that-type'. A fish called...
Yes they do kill them sometimes but can not carry them off. My sister had three huge koi "speared" :-( [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Hi all, I'm hoping you could all answer a few questions for me. How long does spawning last? It seems to have been going on for about 2 weeks now and the...
Hello again Edgar. The most disappointing heron loss we incurred was our very pregnant female, a koi of unusual size and colour, and what the heron did was to ...
You're right about there being several different types of koi with Tancho in the descriptive name, but there really are no koi referred to as just Tancho. The...
I think this is nonsense based a poor understanding of ecology. First of all they are goldfish, not koi I put in the lake. They have little chance of surviving...
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