Cool Koi Stuff

What Kind of Koi Do You Have? Varieties.

Another Koi Identifcation Chart

Pronunciation/Explanation of Koi Terms (Japanese translation)

 

Cool Goldfish Stuff

Submit Your Ideas

 

Something Cool

Coming Soon

 

Doing Partial Water Changes

Doing partial water changes weekly is critical to the success of your pond. You should do a minimum of 20% and as much as 50% depending on the load of fish, if there's been spawning happening, etc.

 

Think about your pond as a toilet with your fish living in it. The fish are eating and then pooping/peeing in the water--and if you don't ever flush out the dirty water--it just gets polluted ultimately kills your fish.

Some folks think that water evaporates from the pond and then they canjust add fresh water in it, and that counts as a partial water change. No! All you've done is DILUTED the toilet bowl a bit, you haven't REMOVED the nasty stuff.

 

Don't be lazy. Do weekly water changes!