What Do You Know About Koi Water Care?
An important element in a koi pond or koi breeding is koi water. Koi water is not your average garden water; this is a specially treated water to help your koi flourish and stay healthy all year round.
What makes This Water Different?
Koi breeding or just enjoying the Koi in the pond demands hard work, the right tools, and knowledge about the Kio’s healthy water environment. Landscaping your Koi pond is done once but keeping the water in the Koi pond is a job that requires dedication starting with the preparation and maintaining the water system throughout the cycle of the koi’s life in the pond.
Unlike the water for your constantly moving waterfall or your water garden, the water for the koi pond should be able to support life. This has to be changed regularly by removing a percentage of the water and replacing it with fresh water to take out un-dissolved unhealthy compounds that are toxic to the fish.
Here is why. The water for your Koi pond is not pure water. It should contain the chemical elements that should support friendly life forms compatible with the koi. It should have exact amounts of chlorine, oxygen, ammonia, nitrates, nitrites, copper, salinity, pH balance, hardness, phosphate algae blooms. Unlike the regular garden water, water for your koi pond need more filtration to process koi waste and get rid of obstructions that can cause koi disease and injury.
Helpful Facts
Koi water care is crucial to a successful koi pond upkeep and koi breeding. The water has to be filtrated, changed, and adjusted to meet the required water temperature in all sorts of weather condition to keep the fish healthy and disease-free. Koi breeders have mastered the different techniques so it is best to get an expert to check the water in the koi pond regularly.
But at your end, you should learn the basics of managing a healthy water habitat for you koi fish. Take for example water changes. Water change should eliminate chemical build-up from koi waste and koi food. But during the change, the organic load, which keeps the koi thriving, is reduced.
You do not simply change the water because you have the time but you have to check the temperature. Koi can take a sudden shift from cold to warm temperature but will not survive a change from warm to cold; koi can die from temperature shock so take special care about water change especially during the summer.
When the water is left unchanged, the water slowly degenerates causing the death of the fish. There are cases too that the fish simply stops breeding when the water is clogged with decayed organisms.
Chlorine levels in koi water should be checked before attempting a large-scale water change spread out the addition of the new water, adding it to the pond after an hour or two. The stress on the koi will be greatly reduced. Koi water is not just any water; the lives of the koi depend on this.
