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Koi For Dummies
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Known throughout the world for its beauty and personality, koi is one of the most carefully bred fish species around. Raising koi is especially time-consuming and requires more than just sprinkling little flakes in the fish bowl. But thankfully, you don't have to be an expert to maintain your own koi pond.
Koi For Dummies shows you how easy and fun it can be to own and care for these delicate fish. Whether building a pond or aquarium for the indoors or outdoors, this easy-to-understand guide explores all of your options. Clear, concise advice helps you:
- Appreciate your koi's beauty
- Build, design, and maintain your koi pond or aquarium
- Find and select koi and the proper supplies
- Keep your koi happy and healthy
- Treat your koi for parasites, bacterial infections, and viruses
- Breed and care for baby koi
- Show off your koi to other koi enthusiasts
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Part I
Koi Basics
In this part . . .
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f youâve never really looked at koi, if youâre a new pond owner, or if youâre just thinking about setting up a pond and trying some of these great fish, hereâs your basic database. In this part you find out how these bright jewels sprang out of dirt-colored carp . . . after 50 years of selective breeding. We also explain what it takes â in terms of time, money, and space â to set up a koi pond. This part also gives some insider hints like why you purchase a few inexpensive canary koi
and how to get some very nice koi for very little money.
Chapter 1
Going âKoi Kichiâ â Crazy for Koi
In This Chapter
G etting started with koi may seem to take a lot of effort. So whatâs to love about them â theyâre just fish, right? Sure, like a diamondâs just a lump of carbon or a Beatlesâ song is just a collection of musical notes. Koi are the ultimate in fish, combining size, beauty, and grace in one plump package (or rather several plump packages because koi donât like to live alone). Because their ponds are designed to literally complement the fish, the ponds add to the aesthetics of koi ownership. When you watch koi slowly wheel around in their pond, youâre observing creatures who occupy another world, one without strife, argument, crowded roads, or any of the other dubious benefits of civilization.
But you didnât pick up this book to figure out our philosophy of koi-keeping, although youâll probably find it sprinkled in here and there. You wanted to know what koi are, what it takes to keep them, and what makes seemingly normal people get crazy about them.
Your questions have you headed in the right direction and youâre in the right place. This is the book that tells you how to get started with koi, how to keep them alive and healthy, what to feed them, and how to distinguish the different varieties.
Appreciating the Beauty of Koi: The Underground Fad
Koi can help bring beauty and serenity into your life, and you can enjoy them for those reasons alone. Watching your koi gracefully turn in the seemingly bottomless waters before they come to the surface to nibble food from your fingers can be a calming end to a hectic day.
Koi also have Japanese names for the subcategories of skin type and markings, but, alas, that discussionâs beyond the scope of this book. (We wanted you to have something to look forward to on your first trip to Japan, the koi-keeperâs Mecca!)
Just like purebred dogs, koi have various levels of quality, with some Kohakus, for example, being better than other Kohakus. You can always read about a good breed, but going to a koi show to watch the judges evaluate the fish is a lot more fun. In Chapter 16 we provide some pointers on what you can expect from these koi shows and reasons why you should go even if youâre not entering the competition.
Of course, lots of koi donât fit into specific categories; these mixed strains, whose parents were of two different color- or scale-types, are still gorgeous but donât match the standard classifications. Although you arenât able to show these koi in a competition, they add lots of color and interest to your pond. We include a color-photo section in this book so you can see the myriad colors of koi that just may leave you starry-eyed.
The Three Types of Koi-Keepers
Koi-keeping often becomes quite a social pastime, although not necessarily so. If you do interact with other enthusiasts, it may help to know what you have to look forward to (and where you may be heading as well!).
The koi market has three levels of koi-keepers:
Knowing the Essentials for Any Koi-Keeper
Before we really get started, we want to point out some essentials concerning these fascinating fish and what goes into keeping them.
The winner for âMost Obviousâ: Koi
Koi do get big (24 inches or more) and they need a good-sized pond, but you can have just as much fun with a $10 koi as one that costs $...
Table of contents
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I : Koi Basics
- Chapter 1: Going âKoi Kichiâ â Crazy for Koi
- Chapter 2: Knowing Your Koi
- Chapter 3: Making Sure Koi Are Right for You
- Chapter 4: A Koi Buyerâs Guide
- Part II : Living with Koi, Inside and Out
- Chapter 5: Preparing for Your Koiâs Homecoming
- Chapter 6: Planning Your Koi Pond
- Chapter 7: Building Your Pond
- Chapter 8: Making It Pretty: Landscaping the Pond
- Chapter 9: Maintaining Your Pond
- Chapter 10: Keeping Koi Inside
- Part III : Caring for Koi and Keeping Them Healthy
- Chapter 11: Koi Nutrition 101
- Chapter 12: Diffusing Koi Stress
- Chapter 13: Spotting and Treating Common Koi Ailments
- Part IV : The Big Leagues: Koi Breeding and Showing
- Chapter 14: Breeding Koi
- Chapter 15: The Small Fry: Bringing Up Baby Koi
- Chapter 16: Koi Shows: Your All-Access Pass to Koi Kichi-dom
- Part V : The Part of Tens
- Chapter 17: Ten Things to Do When the Power Goes Out
- Chapter 18: Ten Things to Check If Your Koi Seem Sick
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