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- Sun Mar 27, 2011 10:20 am
- Forum: Koi Ultra Zone and General koi Health
- Topic: Cosmetic Surgery Anyone ?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4188
Re: Cosmetic Surgery Anyone ?
My feeling is that most modifications are not to win shows but to extract more money for what would otherwise be a marginal fish. After all the bottom line is to go where the money is. Winning a show is nice but is only indirectly a money earner. managing to squeeze a modified fish through a judging...
- Sun Feb 27, 2011 1:58 pm
- Forum: Koi Ultra Zone and General koi Health
- Topic: Can you have to much Filtration?????
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2891
Re: Can you have to much Filtration?????
Scaling it all down a bit this is a situation you often see in people setting up a Q-tank for new koi. I have often seen people with a running Q-tank with a small fish or two in it to keep the filter running. Others will have a Q-tank running with nothing at all and expect the bacteria to magically ...
- Tue Feb 22, 2011 7:00 pm
- Forum: Koi Ultra Zone and General koi Health
- Topic: Euthanasia
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1731
Re: Euthanasia
I'm with welsh_kai_boy. As someone who has been an angler for years I have dispatched perhaps a thousand fish using a simple priest (or a wrench or the handle od a big screwdriver etc>) and ain't one of em ever come back to complain. :roll: Seriously though, in the years gone by I have heard some re...
- Fri Feb 18, 2011 6:04 pm
- Forum: Koi Ultra Zone and General koi Health
- Topic: Potassium Permanganate
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1526
Re: Potassium Permanganate
I was thinking more along the lines that PP is not allowed on aircraft and should it get on a post flight... That said, mail from the UK is slower than mail from Tasmania (seriously, I once ordered something in Tasmania on a Sunday evening and recieved it on Wednesday morning) :D The only way post f...
- Tue Feb 15, 2011 7:10 pm
- Forum: Koi Ultra Zone and General koi Health
- Topic: Shiro Treatment (CT)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1236
Re: Shiro Treatment (CT)
Almost hard to believe they are all the same fish
- Tue Feb 15, 2011 7:06 pm
- Forum: Koi Ultra Zone and General koi Health
- Topic: Potassium Permanganate
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1526
Re: Potassium Permanganate
are you allowed to post that stuff Dunc?
- Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:30 pm
- Forum: Koi Ultra Zone and General koi Health
- Topic: BHM - Why?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 6570
Re: BHM - Why?
So called "Lava rock" Is actually a bi-product of burning coal and not real rock at all. Sources of "feather-rock"or Pumice would be places with volcanic activity past or present. My first thoughts would be Italy or Greece, Iceland. I did a little digging on the internet for &quo...
- Sun Feb 13, 2011 4:19 pm
- Forum: Koi Ultra Zone and General koi Health
- Topic: BHM - Why?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 6570
Re: BHM - Why?
Ed, you can't blow through feather rock either. It has alot of closed cells as well.
- Sun Feb 13, 2011 4:17 pm
- Forum: Pond Construction and Pond Gizmo's And DIY bits and pieces
- Topic: bakki shower
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9830
Re: bakki shower
well according to the BH experts you would want double your pond volume going through the shower so if your tower is 4 foot tall that would be a pump with a nominal out put of about 10-12,000 g/h static and 7,000 at the head.
- Sun Feb 13, 2011 12:52 pm
- Forum: Koi Ultra Zone and General koi Health
- Topic: Alternatives?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3035
Re: Alternatives?
Sadly it looks like most of the "Alternatives" are higher up the hit list than PP itself. Note, that the USA has PP in category I out of II but Europe has 3 categories has yet to add PP to any of them (yet!) Such a shame that people doing bad things to make loads of money pass their wrong ...
- Sun Feb 13, 2011 12:33 pm
- Forum: Koi Ultra Zone and General koi Health
- Topic: Winter Feeding
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5762
Re: Winter Feeding
I am very much in the camp of those who believe our koi must be kept above a minimum temperature but my limits are just lower. (but i do have them). Pictures of fish beneath an Ice covered pond I find horrendous and would never recommend to anyone under any circumstances.In my early days I endured t...
- Sat Feb 12, 2011 5:31 pm
- Forum: Koi Ultra Zone and General koi Health
- Topic: Winter Feeding
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5762
Re: Winter Feeding
As far as NOT FEEDING goes... How long would it take in cold winter conditions between 7*C and 10*C to actually harm a koi due to not having been fed? Ok I Know alot depends on the condition the fish is in at the start but let us assume it is a heathy 65 cm long female with not an unusually high amo...
- Wed Feb 09, 2011 8:28 pm
- Forum: Pond Construction and Pond Gizmo's And DIY bits and pieces
- Topic: Building Ponds & Filtration Questions ?????
- Replies: 22
- Views: 39226
Re: Building Ponds & Filtration Questions ?????
Yes the blue one was the one I was looking at. I know them and they are hungy little sods!
- Wed Feb 09, 2011 7:46 pm
- Forum: Pond Construction and Pond Gizmo's And DIY bits and pieces
- Topic: Building Ponds & Filtration Questions ?????
- Replies: 22
- Views: 39226
Re: Building Ponds & Filtration Questions ?????
Looks like a pretty hefty pump you have there Gazza!
- Wed Feb 09, 2011 7:44 pm
- Forum: Koi Ultra Zone and General koi Health
- Topic: Winter Feeding
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5762
Re: Winter Feeding
Pretty much the same as Dunc with a minumum at >7*C. This is the temperature I am usually at in the winter. I'm at about 10*C at the moment. Forked out for new covers this fall and they work a treat keeping te pond muct warmer than the old ones did. As for being tight... well I bought a new cloverle...