Koi & Koi Pond care ... Articles List

Koi are those very special pondfish. Relatives of the carp they originated in Japan and were specially bred for ponds. They have a magnificent range of colours and textures to please any pond owner. The bes known is the red and white kohaku koi.

• Mechanical Fish Pond Filters | Continuous Solid Waste Filtration
  The Answer Prevents Solid waste Matter Building Up In Your Koi Pond. Organic wastes in the biofilter allow heterotrophic bacteria which feed off these wastes to compete with nitrifying bacteria for oxygen and living space...

• Breeding koi fish in garden ponds | Top tips by Aquarist Ben Helm
  Breeding koi Fish in garden Environments. by Ben Helm. This was a recent question posed to Ben. How can I get my mature koi to spawn?...

• Enjoy The Thrill Of Buying Koi | How To Get It Right
  Enjoy The Thrill Of Buying Koi, Feeding Them and Watching Them Develop In Size and Colour. Question about where to buy koi? I am relatively new to koi keeping and only have a few koi at present...

• Koi Pond Filter Media | KALDNES Modern Filtration Technology
  Oxygen & Nitrification In Pond Water. Kaldnes is a wonderful bio media - revolutionary in fact. For those of you with large garden ponds, and all you Koi pond fanatics out there that have existing filter systems...

• A Bit About Koi Physiology & What's Going On In Your Pond
  A Bit About Koi & What Is Going On In Your Fish Pond. We watch our fish swimming around the pond all day. From year to year they get a bit bigger, plumper and more friendly...

• Sand Filters | Accumulated sludge kills so take care of your biofilter
  Sand filters & Sludge kills so take care of your pond filter better. My original page on sand filters as part of a Koi pond filter system dealt mainly with the effects of channelling in a sand filter - and the creation of dead spots...

• Koi & Goldfish Are 90% Water | We Are Only 65% | It Makes A Difference
  Koi & Goldfish are 90% water (people are only 65%) Koi cannot isolate themselves from their environment. Vital substances that sustain life are continuously exchanged between the Koi and the water oxygen...

• Nitrates In Pond Water Cause Blanket Weed | How To Ge Rid Of Nitrate
  Nitrates In Pond Water Cause Blanket Weed Problems. Quite often, nitrates are overlooked completely. Once the nitrification process is taken care of by our friendly somewhat temperamental bacteria...

• How To Successfully Breed Koi & Goldfish In Your Garden Pond
  How To Successfully Breed Koi & Goldfish. Koi breeding, can prove a contentious topic amongst koi keepers. There are those of us who want their koi to breed,...

• Bronze statues & fountains in koi ponds | Should you use?
  I received a very interesting question from Ray Dellacroce on the Quikonnex system. Here it is. Tony, can I use a bronze statue as a fountain in a koi pond?...

• It's Spring | Be Prepared for Major Exciting Pond Changes
  Spring is around the corner and for those of you not living in Cape Town (along with the free flush of your Koi pond via a few zillion cubic meters of rainfall) it's time to start thinking matters Koi...

• Are koi vegetarians? | Why women catch the biggest salmon
  Why do women catch the biggest salmon? Another very interesting question came from Carol McKnight. Here it is. Mr. Roocroft, Our koi are eating the roots to our floating plants...

• Danger Of Organic Wastes Build Up In Koi Ponds | Avoid It
  Danger Of Organic Wastes Build Up In Koi Ponds. The more and more I see of Koi ponds in South Africa, the more I wonder at the sheer dedication of these often fanatical people that maintain these ponds in their often pristine condition...

• Why You Need An Air Pump If You Have Real Large Koi pond
  Why You Need An Air Pump If You Have Real (Large) Koi pond. This web page is really aimed at koi keepers who have larger ponds rather than the casual garden water ponds enthusiast...

• Ozone | Why would you want to use it in a koi pond?
  Ozone why would you use in a koi pond? It is a strong disinfectant or bacteriacide. Ozone is a most wonderful substance, provided you're not a really small living organism...

• The Answer Modern Mechanical Koi Pond Filter System
  Modern Mechanical Koi Pond Filter System. The Answer is a self backwashing mechanical screen fine screen filter that delivers excellent water clarity and protects the bio stage from unwanted solid materials...