Koi, Goldfish & Pond Health Pond Obstacles Hazards Sharp Rocks Koi Face & Body Koi Cuts Lacerations and Sores

Koi, Goldfish & Pond Health In Twenty Steps

Koi, Goldfish & Pond Health In 20 Steps
Ulcer Treatments
Parasite Treatments & Cures
Koi Water Quality
Koi Quarantine & Health
Medications

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 Twelve

Assess Pond Obstacles

This is a pond I built early on.
Rocks to cut the Koi's faces, see?

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Don't forget this step, because MANY ponds contain engineered obstacles, whether intentional or not. Rocks perched on the ponds' edge can cut the faces of Koi which surface to eat near the pond's side. Some ponds are engineered to have rocks on their ledges, and when the Koi access these ledges for foodstuffs or simply by way of exploration, damage can be done to their bellies or other exposed skin of the face or gill-cover. Substantial sharp-edged boulders in the pond can also lacerate a koi that swims into the rock when dashing from a fright, or at night while sleeping. Certain skimmer parts and filtration accoutrements in the pond bottom also cut any fish which swims into them. If fish are sick or showing up with sores or wounds, assess the pond for injurious obstacles into which they may be swimming. A skilled pond installer can install rocks, boulders, and other decorative and natural looking objects into a pond design with sensitivity to where the fish will be fed, and how they will safely move about these objects. Some sharp, already-deployed obstacles can be wrapped in liner underwater to make them harmless to the fish.

Go To Step Thirteen

Supplemental Reading

Rocks in the Pond: Gravel Bottom Ponds - Noxious Gases or Infallible Low Maintenence Koi Pond and Water Garden Filtration? - Article by Dr Erik Johnson

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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