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The Completely Illustrated Guide for Koi in Your Pond

Koi Fish Pond — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 20:28:18 +0000

The Completely Illustrated Guide for Koi in Your Pond – By: Dr. Herbert R. Axelrod. Completely illustrated guide to every kind of koi imaginable for your pond.

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Great Ideas For You To Use In Your Own Water Garden
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Koi Fish – Your Outdoor Koi Pond

Koi Fish Pond — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:28:17 +0000

Welcome to the wonderful world of raising Koi fish in your outdoor Koi pond. While this is a “hobby” that takes time,effort, and patience, more and more people are finding Koi ponds to be a great investment not only because of their enthusiasm for the fish, but for the pond itself – the sense of escape, of peace, of harmony that a good Koi pond can bring a person.

For many, having a Koi pond is like having a wilderness temple all to themselves. That escape from stress and the rigors of an increasingly busy and stressful society can be one of the many major benefits of an outdoor Koi pond. A Koi pond is a small, enclosed pond that is dependent on recirculating fresh water to keep Koi healthy.

The Koi is a fish that originated in Japan, and is named Nishikigoi by the Japanese. The Nishikigoi or Koi, were developed in Japanover two hundred years ago and are not big gold fish, despite their beautiful appearance, but are actually related to thecommon carp.

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Koi Pond Skimmers

Koi Fish Pond — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:00:05 +0000

A Koi fish pond produces a lot of organic debris and muck. Sum up with the stuff that falls in the water (leaves, insects, dust, etc.) we can say that a Koi pond can be very dirty. So, what can we do to keep good quality water?

Koi pond skimmers are the right solution to trap the rubbish on the surface before it sinks. If the filtration system is working properly and the water is returning from the filtration system to the pond then, at some stage, the surface debris will for certain pass through the mouth of the skimmer. In a rectangular Koi fish pond it is best to return water to one end and to skim the surface at the other.

Water overflows make ideal surface skimmers, if you want to add this as a feature to your pond. Bear in mind though that the pond water level then becomes important and needs to be maintained at a relatively consistent level or else your filtration system and flow rates will tend to vary somewhat.

A great idea for Koi pond skimmers is to have them built into the Koi pond right next to the settlement chamber. That way the skimmer will clean to surface of the pond water right into the settlement chamber, from where all the collected debris can be accumulated and filtered out of the pond system.

If you live in an area where the amount of leaves falling is very big you should use a conventional pool skimmer to remove the leaves. This way you don’t load the filter system and we keep our Koi fish pond with quality water.

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