An excellent koi pond video showing the koi being fed. This is a great set up from someone who obviously loves koi and has created an excellent environment for them.
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Black Koi Information
It is well understood that Koi fish come in a large variety of colors and patterns. Black Koi are set apart from other Koi varieties due to their coloring and not much else. Koi fish can live for an extended life time even living as long as two hundred years but, normally live for about twenty-five to thirty-five years of age. They are regularly seen in outdoor ponds all over the world. Koi males can be easily recognized by their concave anal section. They may also display breeding spots on the head. Spawning may result in as many as 1,000 eggs. Baby Koi known as fry will start emerging in about four to seven days, depending on the temperature of the water. Amazingly their color doesn’t emerge until the fry are about three to twelve weeks of age.
How To Use A Koi Filter
An extremely important thing to control when raising Koi fish is giving them the proper filtration in a pond environment. Koi fish are more sensitive to the quality of the water then some other fish and therefore need more consideration when it comes to some of the equipment like filers.
A pond filter helps to control the biological balance in the pond system. It is the job of the filter to remove the waste that the Koi produce. In the wild fish waste is removed because of the volume of the water in the area. Fish waste is also removed by the water’s current. When fish are in a contained environment they need to have this natural function supplied for them. Most of the pond filters available have a mechanical and biological function.
Getting The Right Koi Supplies
Koi fish are some of the most beautiful and colorful pond fish but, keeping them requires at least a basic knowledge of fish and outdoor ponds and a few essential supplies.
Part of giving your yard a tranquil feeling is placing a fountain in your pond. This not only drowns out unwanted noise, it stirs the water and is the easiest way to put oxygen back into the water which is important for the health of your fish.
Hungry Koi Carp At Feeding Time
See these koi beach themselves on the edge of pond shore as they try to get the food.
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Koi Feeding Tips
Koi fish are gorgeous in color and more importantly entertaining to own. Most people who own Koi will tell you that they can be trained to eat right out of your hand. Koi will recognize the person who feds them and gather around them at feeding times. With such an enjoyable creature livening up the waters of a backyard pond, how can anyone get bored?