Main forum post your koi, goldfish, as well as other pond related questions for discussion Koi terminology ai / blue aka / red akami / red eye in iris amime / net pattern of an asagi or kage aoji / sumi deep, in utsuri line, that gives blue to white field aragoke / armored scales ato sumi / late sumi beni / red beta gin / whole scale gin boke sumi / blurred sumi like kage bongiri / no pattern in tail region bozu / bare head bu / size chobo sumi / black we see early on head, skull. Forum koi health and ponding main forum purina aquamax 500, affordable fish food i've been using. Whenever i visit public places or people's homes who have koi ponds, i always see that their koi are regular cigar shaped, nice colors and streamlined body conformation with proportionate head and body However when i see videos of japanese koi farms literally all of their koi fish are so fat and shaped like footballs when viewed from the side. And i don't want to stress all my koi (and myself) by catching them all to measure them
So i wanted to share this method of measuring koi fairly accurately without having to catch them You can mark a pipe (or other long object) with tape of a different color, sink it to the bottom, using materials that don't harm water quality. I have heard of respected breeders in japan that have intentionally bred high quality koi (bonsai) koi. Roddy’s current potassium permanganate practice after removing 55 of the koi in our pond, then adding 12 new carefully selected small koi from a top supplier, i am successfully using my own new protocol for maximum growth rate coupled with strong parasite protection The protocol is simple, or at least to me it is very simple.
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