Koi Breeding Pond
Essential Koi Pond Supplies
As a new Koi pond owner, you may be overwhelmed with the amount of supplies needed to properly maintain your Koi pond. While the importance of the majority of these items cannot be denied, the feeling of being overwhelmed by the amount needed should be disregarded. Simply knowing the function of each item can help you understand why they are needed.
There are certain items that you need to have on hand at all times. Because you pond is outdoors, emergency ... Read More »
Choosing Plants For Your Koi Water Garden
So you finally finished your water garden construction. You have finally come to the fun part of creating your water garden: picking the flowers and plants that will make your water garden a beautiful oasis.
Not only should you consider beauty when you are picking your plants, but you must also remember that plants provide another, more important value to your garden, biological life. Biological life helps maintain your pool by doing what they would do in nature.
Be sure to pay ... Read More »
The Basics of Keeping Koi
Koi ponds popularity are on the rise, and the reasons are obvious. Who would not want living creatures as a part of their garden? However, Koi keeping should not be taken lightly. Koi, like any other animal, require time and money to maintain. The majority of first time Koi owners fail because they get the idea that keeping Koi is easy in some way. Do not let this discourage you though, as educating yourself will greatly improve your chances of ... Read More »
Bagging and Transporting Koi
Koi, like any other pet, will have medical issues throughout its life, especially since Koi have been know to have a life span of up to 30 years. You contact the vet because you Koi is showing signs of injury or illness, and unless you have a vet that does house calls, chances are the first thing they will say is bring it in.
Issues with your pond can arise, whether it is an emergency move because your pond is placed ... Read More »
5 Steps To a Perfect Koi Pond
Step 1- Setting Up The Perfect Environment
You perfect Koi pond starts with the actual pond itself. You have to create a pond that will not only be pleasing to the eye, but will also adequately sustain Koi. Proper placement, size, and pond type is essential when building your pond.
When it comes to pond size, the bigger is always better. Koi have a habit of growing rather fast, so you have to consider pond size at the same time you are ... Read More »
Your Koi Pond After The Storm
First off, take time to breath. You pride and joys are probably fine. They may be somewhat traumatized by the whole experience, but that would be any pet caught in unusual situation. Unless extreme damage was done, their health probably is not an issue, however their home may be in need of some repairs.
You may have been completely prepared for the storm, or the storm may have taken you by complete surprise. Whatever the case may be, you must jump ... Read More »
Winterizing Your Koi Pond
Winter is coming, and this will be the first Winter that you go through with your Koi pond. Think of Winter as a down period for your pond, as less events happen during Winter then any other time. However, there are special precautions that you need to take before Winter arrives, to ensure that your pond and fish survive.
Clean Up- Take about a weekend to completely go over your pond. Clean up and unwanted bulk material in and around your ... Read More »
The Four Seasons and Your Koi Pond
Spring
Your Koi pond will literally come to life at the first of springtime. The life in your pond have spent the previous Winter in a proverbial hibernation, and is ready to come to life at the first signs of warm weather. This is the perfect time to begin maintenance on your pond before the fish, plants, and other pond life come back to live from their winter slumber. As the days begin to get warmer, your pond will start drastically ... Read More »
How Can You Construct a Koi Pond?
If you had seen any water garden, ratios are, you had seen koi fish. The debate is how to create the perfect biological system or ecosystem for your little friends.
Koi ponds are made so that it might consider the most appropriate living demand for koi fishes. You might find them in the yard behind house in many cases; whatever, they can also place in front yards if there is a lot of available space there. In the process of constructing ... Read More »