Koi, Goldfish & Pond Health Assessing How What To Feed Koi Nutrition, and How Much To Feed Ponds of Koi & Goldfish

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 Three

Assess Over (or) Underfeeding.

Feeding Time!

Overfeeding is the most common hobbyist mistake. I want you to know that there are actually people who feed their fish SEVERAL times per day, if you can believe it. I recommend feeding once, or at most, twice per day. Now, in fairness, it should be noted that you can feed up to twenty times per day if your pond can handle the waste load that comes from that. So, if you're going to feed copiously, you will have to amend your filtration in the "expensive" direction. Over feeding manifests as cloudy water and the overgrowth of green algae in the system. It's simple to assess, really. Feed all that the fish will consume in five minutes. I usually just toss in a few pellets continually as long as fish are up eating them for five minutes. I never try to guess how much they will eat in a five minute period but prefer to give the food as the fish surface to get it.

Underfeeding manifests as fish which appear with pinched-looking heads and drawn up bellies. A fish with a large head and a thin body is usually underfed. A Koi that grows less than an inch per month is underfed, overcrowded or is not benefiting from regular water changes. In the assessment of your feeding rates, subtract 15% from your COSS "Chances Of Success" Score - if the pond is fed three or more times per day. Conversely, add 15% to your C.O.S.S if the pond is only fed once per day. You are not an overfeeder, and this defect will not require compensation.

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Supplemental Reading:

Algae control, control of Koi & Goldfish pond or water garden green water and string algae - Algaeblooms.com - This site will take you through the question of whether algae is "bad" and how to control it effectively at every turn.

FeedingKoi.com - The What To Feed and How To Feed of the Feeding and Nutrition of Koi and Goldfish - Under Construction - Articles by Dr. Johnson and more.

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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