Decorating the koi carps pond with the water crop certainly gave special beauty. Really, it is fascinating gazed when the koi fish that swam around the lower water crop mutually in running... elegant and beautiful is'nt it? But did you know that the water crop also needed oxygen as in the case of koi carp? How we controlled it so that the koi carps got oxygen that was enough after shared with this crop?
When the pond of koi carps was decorated also with the water crop like algae, Cryptocoryne moehlmannii, the water lily, the lotus - & still many others, the content of most protracted oxygen in pond's water really must be maintained in the level of 5 ppm minimally. Remember that the crop needed oxygen at night, and produced oxygen during whole of the day. The fast growth of the water crop and un controlled must be matched with always cleansed these crops of the koi pond, so there was still available room to move and there was oxygen level that enough for the koi. Also with the water crop that died and rotted, immediately must be cleaned so that the water PH does not experience the change on the limit that could be tolerated by the fish koi pity.
Nearby by cleaning and controlling the growth of the water crop, so that the content of oxygen continued to be awakened it was suggested to always pay attention to the circulation of pond water. The fitting of the water pump that could circulate the pond's water in a trus manner could be carried out to increase most protracted oxygen at the same time as the implement that helped filtration guarded pond water stayed clean. In many matters, the lack of the level of oxygen for pond water, could cause the koi carps were mad max and even resulted in the sudden death.
Label: Koi Carps, Kolam, Water Crop
Menghiasi kolam ikan koi dengan tanaman air tentu memberikan keindahan tersendiri. Sungguh mengasyikkan memandang ikan koi yang berenang diantara tanaman air hilir mudik dan saling berkejaran...elegan dan menggemaskan bukan? Tapi tahukah anda bahwa tanaman air juga memerlukan oksigen seperti halnya ikan-ikan koi? Bagaimana kita mengendalikan agar ikan koi mendapatkan oksigen yang cukup setelah berbagi dengan tanaman tersebut?
Bila kolam koi dihiasi pula dengan tanaman air seperti alga, Cryptocoryne moehlmannii, teratai, lotus - & masih banyak lagi, kandungan oksigen terlarut di air kolam betul-betul harus dipertahankan minimal pada kadar 5 ppm. Ingatlah bahwa tanaman membutuhkan oksigen pada malam hari, dan menghasilkan oksigen pada siang hari. Pertumbuhan tanaman air yang cepat dan tidak terkendali harus diimbangi dengan selalu membersihkan tanaman-tanaman tersebut dari kolam koi, sehingga masih tersedia ruang gerak dan kadar oksigen yang cukup bagi ikan koi. Begitu pula dengan tanaman air yang mati dan membusuk, harus segera dibersihkan agar PH air tidak mengalami perubahan diatas batas yang dapat ditolerir oleh ikan koi kesayangan.
Disamping dengan membersihkan dan mengendalikan pertumbuhan tanaman air, agar kandungan oksigen tetap terjaga disarankan untuk selalu memperhatikan sirkulasi air kolam. Pemasangan pompa air yang dapat mensirkulasi air kolam secara trus menerus dapat dilakukan untuk menambah oksigen terlarut sekaligus sebagai alat yang membantu filterisasi menjaga air kolam tetap bersih.
Dalam banyak hal, kekurangan kadar oksigen pada air kolam koi, dapat menyebabkan ikan koi mengalami stres dan bahkan mengakibatkan kematian mendadak.
Label: Kadar Oksigen, Koi Carps, Kolam, Tanaman Air, Tips
Having a koi ponds at home is one of the pleisure for each hobbyist of koi carps. To see and play with your attractive colourful koi carps could make refresh your spirit back from daily routinity.
Did you want to have the koi pond in your garden? The fish-pond decorated behind the house is very beneficial and it was not difficult like that most people imagined. If you carried out the appropriate maintenance for them, the fish koi could live long with the long measurement that more than one metre.
Followed these simple tips to make the fish-pond koi correctly so it was be able to give the happiness and your peace of mind when you saw them.
The depth of the koi fish-pond are important.
The depth of the pond is very important for the koi carps. The depth of the pond preferably more than 80 centimeters (the part that was filled up water) so that your fish-pond is most protected from the wild animal to attact the carps, kept like the cat and the other animal that possibly will destroy your carps. The fish-pond that more deep in also helped stabilised the temperature of water that was caused by the intensity of heat of the sun or the cold weather at night and at the rainy weather.
Koi liked much space to swim.
The small pond is not good for koicarps. Remember, in line with your fish time grew and developed or could improved many and they will need enough space to move around. The number of koi colour variations, possibly will encourage you wanted to buy the fish from various colours. So it is better for made a pond biger from beginning, in planning than renovated the pond at the next day. Built the bigger pond and more deep in being better.
Maintain the water's temperature of your pond.
Koi carps as a tropical fish unlike cold rainy weather. Koi is not frightened the cold weather but do not let the temperature of your pond tied up the fish. Too cold water will hinder the growth of the koi carps, and several illnesses will threatened the koi fish and this condition could develop disadvantage algae. The rain water that at once fell into the pond in the number that quite a few were not good for the health of the koi carps because of the rain water contained the acidity that sometimes very high. As the step in the prevention, you could use special salt for the fish that was spread to pond's water in accordance with the dose.
Made the patron for your koi
If the location of the koi pond that was chosen were in the opened location, confirmed fully was not affected by the direct sun rays, because besides increasing quickly the temperature of pond water, also could speed up the growth of moss that could influence the clarity of pond water. The alternative placed the protective crop at the edge of the pond was really recommended. Moreover you could use the water crop like the lotus or water lily, the water lily in the pond or nearby could add the beauty of your pond, the water crop also became the refuge that protected the fish. However, you must avoid planted the big tree near the koi pond because it could be the potential damage and cracking that caused by its root. One important matter that must be paid attention was to confirm the foliage from the protective crop did not fall into the pond, and immediately cleaned when indeed was not avoided.
Avoiding to use the poisonous substance close to your pond.
Insectisides and herbicides that's used for your garden at the time of the maintenance of the garden should be put along from your koi pond. Placing the place of poisonous substances at the edge of the pond was very risky will fall into the pond and polluted water and the fish that lived in the pond. Moreover a small amount of the public's insecticide could kill your beautiful koi.
The Koi Pond Accessories
To make your koi fish grow well and healthily, several accessories were needed in order to maintain the condition for pond water and keep it like the originally habitat. Ideally you will need a water pump, the filtration system, the water reservoir aerator, the water heater and the steriliser ultraviolet. The fish koi liked clean and moving pond water. When the condition of the water is unclean,your fish became more unhealthy or stress. The stress fish koi showed overcast signs the colour of the fish, not be appetited to eat, go aside from the others, and could cause your koi passed away.
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Label: Koi Carps, Ponds Building
How to deal with
Did you ever seen suddenly your pity koi carps was not attractive or agile (indifferent)? They didn’t want to feed anymore or they reluctantly approach while you feeding them. Or they tried to jump over and over from the water pond? They was seen restless? If this happened, maybe it mean that your koi carps were illness. Don’t waiting along.
The physical sign of the illness Koi Carps, in generally are:
- The koi remained on the sidelines or they would like to stay away from the other groups.
- Clam up in beneathe of the pond with both side of the fins was opened.
- Both sides fins or the upper fins were torn.
- Restless.
- Scale and skin turned pale like spots.
- The eyes was faded.
- Gasping for air with the irregular rhythm (the lack of oxygen).
The illness in the fish koi could be caused by:
- Water lice, was easy seen by the eyes. It looks like a hook or a small anchor and adhered to the body of koi fish.
- The virus, being difficult to be detected and often to attack your fish.
- The fungus, because of being very small material. They was unseen with the manner of the eyes. Attacked to all the surface of fish skin. It really was seen clearly when attacking the part of the fish eyes.
- The bacteria. Equally of it matter with the fungus diseases, the annoying bacteria was not seen by the eyes. Signs after being attacked by this, the koi carps usually became restless.
- Unclean water, causing the growth of three parasites above and attacked your pity Koi.
The method to overcame your illness Koi (First Aid to Koi – P3K)
The first step that immediately must be carried out after you saw signs of the illness koi carps, carried out actions as follows:
- Immediately moved or isolate the illness koi to the other pond or aquarium in order to avoid spreading disease to the other healthy Koi.
- Guarded temperature water in the isolation pond/aquarium.
- Give enough aeration or oxygen by using the air pump.
- Avoid gave your koi with excessively fish meal. As in the case of human body, the illness koi fish did not have good appetite, so if you gave food more often, it will contaminate the isolation aquarium or the isolation pond’s water.
- Give medical treatment quickly with exactly medicine accordance with his cause. How to treat the medicine for your pity Koi and what kinds of the material in fish medical treatment will be presented by us in the next post.
Hopely those tips will useful.
Label: Tips
Pernahkan anda melihat secara tiba-tiba ikan koi kesayangan anda tidak lagi lincah (cuek) dan enggan mendekati ketika anda memberi pakan? Atau ikan anda terlihat gelisah/ berusaha melompat dari kolam? Itu artinya kondisi ikan koi anda mungkin saja sedang sakit.
Tanda fisik ikan koi yang sedang sakit, secara umum adalah :
- Menyendiri dari kelompok ikan-ikan koi lainnya.
- Berdiam diri didasar kolam dengan sirip yang terbuka.
- Sirip samping dan sirip atas robek/luka
- Gelisah
- Sisik dan kulit memutih seperti bintik-bintik atau berselaput
- Mata memutih berselaputMulut memegap dengan irama yang tidak beraturan (seperti terengah-engah kekurangan oksigen).
Penyakit pada ikan koi dapat disebabkan oleh :
- Kutu air, mudah terihat oleh mata. Kutu air berbentuk seperti mata kail/ jangkar yang kecil dan melekat pada badan ikan koi.
- Virus, yang termasuk susah untuk dideteksi namun sering menyerang ikan koi.
- Jamur, karena merupakan materi yang sangat kecil sehingga tidak mudah terlihat secara kasat mata. Menyerang pada seluruh permukaan kulit ikan dan sangat terlihat jelas bila telah menyerang bagian mata ikan koi berselaput putih.
- Bakteri. Sama halnya dengan penyakit jamur, bakteri yang mengganggu ikan koi tidak terlihat oleh mata. Tanda-tanda setelah terserang penyakit ini biasanya ikan koi menjadi gelisah.
- Air kolam atau akuarium yang tidak bersih, sehingga parasit dan penyakit diatas berkembang dan menyerang koi kesayangan anda.
Cara mengatasi koi yang sakit ( Pertolongan Pertama Pada Koi – P3K)
Langkah pertama yang harus segera dilakukan, setelah anda melihat tanda-tanda ikan koi yang sedang sakit, lakukan tindakan-tindakan sebagai berikut :
- Segera pindahkan (isolasi) ikan koi yang sakit pada kolam/aquarium lain agar tidak menularkan penyakitnya kepada ikan koi yang sehat.
- Jaga temperature air pada akuarium isolasi.
- Berikan aerasi/ oksigen yang cukup dengan menggunakan pompa udara (Air Pump)
- Hindari memberi makan pada koi yang sakit secara berlebihan. Sebagaimana halnya manusia, ikan koi yang sakit tidak memiliki nafsu makan yang baik sehingga bila anda memberi pakan yang banyak justru akan mengotori akuarium/ kolam isolasi.
- Berikan pengobatan secara cepat dan tepat ( obat dan bahan yang sesuai dengan penyebabnya ).
Untuk penberian obat/ bahan dalam pengobatan ikan koi akan kami sajikan pada posting berikutnya. Semoga Bermanfaat.
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Label: Tips
What will be happened if your attractives Koi fish instantly did not want to feed meals in colder season? Don't wondering if you're in this situation. 61 degrees + - Twice daily or more 56 - 60 degrees - Once a day 51-56 degrees - Two to 3 times a week 46-50 degrees - Once a week - Do not feed again until spring when water temperature reaches 46 degrees... 46 degrees - Do not feed
I discovered that's been a lifesaver for me and many others.
Here's a simple tip :
Because the Koi's digestive system virtually comes to a stop during the colder seasons of the year, it is generally recommended that feeding should be tapered off during the fall, with a complete halt to feeding when the water drops CONSISTANTLY below 55 F.
Feeding can then slowly be resumed in the spring, when the water is CONSISTANTLY above 55 F.
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