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Koi, Goldfish & Pond Health In Twenty Steps

Koi, Goldfish & Pond Health In 20 Steps
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Read These In Order:

The Twenty Steps:

Step One

Step Two

IMPORTANT Links

-More Links-

Medications - Koi & Goldfish Disease Remedies & Treatments - To your door overnight. Usage guides by Dr. Erik Johnson.

Koi Health & Disease Text Book - Fish Disease Treatments Simplified but leaving nothing out! 160 pages, satisfaction guaranteed.

Koivet Koi & Goldfish, Pond & Water Garden Forum or Message Board - Message with some of the best hobbyists and experts in the industry.

Chat about Koi & Goldfish Ponds and Water Features. Top of the hour, especially 9AM and 9PM EST

Koi & Goldfish Diseases Symptoms Chart - KoiCrisis.com

Other Links

Step Thirteen

Assess Pond Cleanliness

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No pond, of any type, will preserve fish health unless it is kept clean. There are numerous factors which influence this but how many fish you have how much food you feed them are the two most important. It is the intention of all filters regardless of type, to collect unsightly 'solid' waste. Eventually, all filtration types must dispel this in one way or another. Some filtration, such as a gravel bottom pond, relies on the breakdown of these solid wastes by beneficial bacteria and the subsequent removal of these solubilized waste products via important water changes. Annual cleaning of the gravel bed can also be a priority. Bead filters must be backwashed to dispel their solid burden. Matt filters have to be dragged to your driveway for manual rinsing.

The pond itself should have routine attention to remove sticks, leaves and seeds of trees and plants near the pond. If the pond contains gravel on the bottom, it should receive it's annual vacuum cleaning, and additional beneficial bacteria (usually bacillus subtilis cultures in bran) should be deployed according to the manufacturer's instructions to solubilize the solid wastes captured by the gravel bed. This is oh-so-true for gravel barrel filters also. Regardless of the filtration type in use on a pond, in systems containing important collections of fish, regular water changes contribute a great deal to water cleanliness and fish health. Water changes potentiate the natural activities of the pond eco system and let the beneficial bacteria in the pond do their work more efficiently. In your assessment of the pond, if the water looks or smells undrinkably poor, or you would not permit your child to wade around in the pond, it is then also NOT sufficient for Koi, and you should attack the problem with a pond cleaning and a water change of the largest safe volume before hoping for success attacking a fish illness. If on the other hand, the pond is effervescent and sweet smelling, the water is clear and moving with a bubbly exuberance, rest assured that the fish are primed to recover and will respond to the other nineteen steps to fish health.

Go To Step Fourteen

Koivet.com
Koivet is a venerable, long lived koi and pond fish health site started by Dr Erik Johnson in 1994 as an off shoot of his first few websites at Mindspring.com. Now Koivet is full of information and movies and more.

Koi Beginner
Once you've leapfrogged through this tutorial you will have a solid, working concept of the Koi hobby and what it's all about. This is done just about exclusively with video and very little written material.

DrJohnson.com
More than koi health, this site spans all things animal, by a real veterinarian who shoots you straight.

Fishdoc.co.uk
By Frank Prince-Iles. A UK authority who put this site together some time ago and which is still relied upon as a major source of good Koi and pond fish information

Fish Medicines
Learn about fish medicines, what they do, and where to get them.

PondCrisis.com
If you have a koi, pond or fish problem, this site takes you through twenty easy questions and at the end you know what you need to fix in your pond to create restored Koi health.

KoiCrisis.com
Koi Crisis has a symptoms chart by system you can choose the symptom by fish part, and resolve a lot of Koi pond fish problems or at least, learn about them understand how to remedy them.

Buying Domestic Koi
What does "Domestic" koi mean? Why would you buy that kind? How do you pick good and healthy ones? Who sells them and where do you find the best ones?

Buying Imported Koi
A Japanese or Israeli imported Koi is a beautiful thing. Why would you buy one of those? How do you identify a "good one"? And what kinds are there? Who would you buy one from?

Koi Filtration - Bead
With a little bit of management every week or so, you can have gin clear water in your koi or fish pond. Bead filtration is more than ten years old and defines the state of the art in Koi and pond fish ponds.

Koi Filtration - Natural
Requiring no weekly management but one big yearly overhaul, natural filtration is the easiest there is. Relying on live plants and organic processes, water quality is usually superb. Described and common mistakes illustrated, visit this site!

Koi Food & Feeding
What should you feed your koi? How many times per day? Is Corn really that bad in a Koi diet? What are the most common feeding mistakes people make? What's the best food?

Koi and Pond Hard Goods
So many places these days, are pure ripoffs. Finding a reputable dealer of koi and pond hard goods isn't as easy as you would think but there's ways to tell. The product line should be to-the-point and not contain shams. Who's doing it right? Visit this site!

Finding Reputable Dealers
The fish are only as good as the dealer holding them. Quarantines, guarantees and fish quality all factor in. What to ask, what to see and how to handle your new fish.

Books on Koi Diseases
You will be introduced to Dr Johnson's Koi Health book but also to other books he's reviewed.

Help With Koi Problems
Koi Community rates a variety of forums and message boards on ease of use, friendliness and quality of help. Not all boards are created equal. Not mincing words here.

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