Koi Care

Failure to Quarantine New Fish before you place them in your pondThe Winner for the fourth year in a row has not changed.Failure To Quarantine New Fish still wins the #1 Prize!!   Runner UpsPoor water qualityWaiting too long to treat your sick fishUsing the wrong treatment, delays proper treatment   Wintertime LossesLack of Read more...

Why are my fish hiding? I received a phone call from a pond keeper telling me for the past three days her fish are staying at the bottom of her pond. Every time she approaches her pond the fish dive to the bottom and hide, not even coming up to the top to eat. Now these are fish that always eat from her hand. After a number of questions about Read more...

Controlling Koi Pond pH Levels The pH level of your koi pond changes depending on what time of day you test the koi pond water. If you test it in the morning, you will get a lower pH reading than you would in the afternoon. Koi ponds tend to naturally have a high pH in late afternoon. The pH level fluctuates over a 24-hour period because of KH ( Read more...

Here’s how to help my koi fish recover from the Frigid Winter 2014/2015 You and many pond keepers across the country have experienced the most severe, frigid winter in many, many years. We lost koi (some of our favorites) and the rest have really been weaken to the point, we ask ourselves “Are they going to make it to spring?” According to Read more...

Koi Spawning Time All pond keepers who have a healthy pond will experience their koi “Spawning”. One morning you’ll visit your pond and your fish will be chasing one another and jumping with excitement. Your plants will be uprooted and your pond will look like someone poured a small amount bubble bath in your pond water. Depending on the Read more...

Every year fish in “cold climate” ponds struggle through extreme stressand, in some cases, die due to “Aeromonas Alley”. What is “Aeromonas Alley”?“Aeromonas Alley” is defined as when your pond water temperature ranges between 42° F and 62° F. Between these temperatures, the deadly “Aeromonas/Pseudomonas” (AP) bacteria grow Read more...

When it comes to buying new koi fish, many pond keepers often have lots of questions about what to look for and where to buy. Where can I find a good healthy new koi fish? You can find good koi almost anywhere. Any source with a good reputation is probably a good place to buy koi. Pet superstores, garden centers, and any other place Read more...

Basic Koi Care Keeping pond Algae under control Pond Algae The Causes and Controls A real problem for many koi fish pond keepers is Algae and how to keep algae under control. You wake up one morning and there it is, a real “pain in the neck” that can give you headaches for months if it’s not kept under control. So what is algae, what Read more...

This brings me to a very important subject that I would like to share with you. Every year I receive phone calls in the early spring from pond keepers who have had a warm day or two and started working in their ponds. Like all of us they are experiencing “Spring Fever” and can’t wait to see our fish. The problem is, these one or two “ Read more...

Have questions about baby koi? A popular topic is “how do koi spawn?” The female koi will get “rushed” by the male koi. She will usually get chased by two or three males, and she will get wedged somehow in between rocks, behind the skimmer, or in plants or aqua mats, which are a fake kind of plant for ponds. The males come up behind her Read more...