| Koi pond fish keeping generally turns out to be | | | | would have to replace 1/3 of the pond's water. In |
| more of a water keeping and cleaning hobby than | | | | terms of your Koi pond fish, that's a huge and |
| it is a fish keeping hobby in terms of care, | | | | drastic change in a relatively short amount of |
| maintenance and upkeep of Koi ponds. Now at | | | | time. Imagine if you will being put into a small |
| first glance, this may sound a little strange to you | | | | airtight room. Now imagine someone taking 30% |
| as one does not necessarily get into the hobby of | | | | of the air out of that room and at the same |
| keeping and caring for water, but if you think | | | | time, the room gets smaller by 1/3. I'm feeling a |
| about it, it does make sense when you consider | | | | little tight just thinking about it myself. |
| the environment you are creating for your Koi | | | | This kind of adjustment for a new pond would be |
| fish is all about, you guessed it, "water". | | | | extreme and was not advisable to say the least. |
| Koi health is highly dependent on the quality and | | | | A lot of things, on multiple levels of development, |
| stability of the water in which they live. With that | | | | growth, stability and balance, are going on in a |
| said, it is worth understanding that clear water | | | | new pond - the bio media within the bio film are |
| does not necessarily mean healthy pond water | | | | trying to progress and cultivate to optimum levels |
| for your Koi, and the reverse holds true as well. | | | | of efficiency among other things. One-third water |
| Having recently spent time at a new Koi pond fish | | | | change on a weekly basis is far too risky because |
| development, I had the opportunity to consult | | | | with new water, you stand the chance of adding |
| with a very worried owner. Her pond had low (but | | | | a lot of unknown elements and organisms that |
| measurable) levels of ammonia and nitrite, and at | | | | might affect the life and well-being of the Koi |
| the same time it had a good amount of unwanted | | | | pond fish living within it. |
| algae growing in it. As it turns out, the water in | | | | In cases such as this, it's best in this particular |
| the pond was passing too fast through the pond | | | | instance to just let sleeping dogs lie and leave well |
| filter's UV Sterilizer. Instead of killing the algae, the | | | | enough alone. It's more important for the new |
| UV portion of the filter system was just lightly | | | | pond water to be giving time, with patients and a |
| zapping the algae. In other words, instead of killing | | | | careful watching eye, to reach stability than for it |
| the algae, they were simply getting a tanned | | | | to look crisp and clear right from the start. Wait |
| before returning to the pond water for further | | | | for stability to set in among all of the bio functions |
| growth. | | | | going on in the water; then clean later if it is still |
| It is worth clearly understanding here that in order | | | | necessary. |
| to adjust this glitch on a manual labor scale, we | | | | |