Starting a koi pool is a relatively simple procedure, but requires commitment to specific details in order to provide your fish with health and proper growth.
While many customers installing a koi pond choose to have professionals dig, fill, and supply the water, it is easy enough to do on your own, although many prefer not to dig a six foot deep hole in their backyard during the height of summer! Koi pond supplies can be found at any major pet store or aquarium supply outlet.
One of the most important pieces of equipment for an aerator to provide oxygen.
While koi in their natural habitat -- as well as wild fish of any strain -- rely on moving water of rivers or streams to bring fresh oxygen into lakes, there is understandably no way to rig a stream through your back yard.
As such, an aerator pumps oxygen into the water, where it is dissolved and keeps the fish healthy.
Koi without enough oxygen become sluggish, will not eat, and die within as little as a week.
In addition, accessory animals such as snails require oxygen content to survive alongside the koi.
Cleaning the pool is a chore, as growth, leaves, and droppings will naturally accumulate and create an unsightly condition as well as harming the quality of life in the water.
Using a pond vacuum is the easiest way to pump out large items from a koi pool.
Pond vacuums, unlike normal vacuum cleaners, are designed to work underwater and suck up large objects while returning water through a filter into the pool.
Sludge will also be dredged with a vacuum, although this requires cleaning the filters of the muck.
Some special grown bacteria can help keep the biological growth to a minimum in a koi pond.
These tiny creatures consume the droppings, slime, and algae blooms that not only harm the quality of a koi's life, but render the pond a thick soup of foul smelling green sludge.
These bacteria function automatically without damaging the fish, multiplying faster during the summer to keep the extra biological material down.
While many customers installing a koi pond choose to have professionals dig, fill, and supply the water, it is easy enough to do on your own, although many prefer not to dig a six foot deep hole in their backyard during the height of summer! Koi pond supplies can be found at any major pet store or aquarium supply outlet.
One of the most important pieces of equipment for an aerator to provide oxygen.
While koi in their natural habitat -- as well as wild fish of any strain -- rely on moving water of rivers or streams to bring fresh oxygen into lakes, there is understandably no way to rig a stream through your back yard.
As such, an aerator pumps oxygen into the water, where it is dissolved and keeps the fish healthy.
Koi without enough oxygen become sluggish, will not eat, and die within as little as a week.
In addition, accessory animals such as snails require oxygen content to survive alongside the koi.
Cleaning the pool is a chore, as growth, leaves, and droppings will naturally accumulate and create an unsightly condition as well as harming the quality of life in the water.
Using a pond vacuum is the easiest way to pump out large items from a koi pool.
Pond vacuums, unlike normal vacuum cleaners, are designed to work underwater and suck up large objects while returning water through a filter into the pool.
Sludge will also be dredged with a vacuum, although this requires cleaning the filters of the muck.
Some special grown bacteria can help keep the biological growth to a minimum in a koi pond.
These tiny creatures consume the droppings, slime, and algae blooms that not only harm the quality of a koi's life, but render the pond a thick soup of foul smelling green sludge.
These bacteria function automatically without damaging the fish, multiplying faster during the summer to keep the extra biological material down.