Koi

[Justin]

A friend of mine insists that a pond that is 50 degrees would be too cold for five koi to live happily in. I am not sure and I would like to know. What do you think

[Cichlid Man]

My pond goes right down to 25 in the winter so your kio should have no worries.

[John]

Justin's my friend (we're working on building a fish room together). Gage (one of our other friends) was saying that the koi would die because it's too early to feed them, because they won't have enough energy to eat in this weather. I agree with Justin and Cichlid Man, though. I'm pretty sure it's not too early to put them in the pond and feed them. What does everybody think?

[Lexus]

Its fine, as long as they are acclimated correctly

[fish_doc]

As long as you just dont drop them right in they should be fine. Plus it should start warming up even more soon.

[John]

Thanks guys.

Yeah, we got them from the fish store, floated the bag in the water (which we warmed up before and then slowly returned to natural temperature) for about half an hour.

The koi are doing fine.

We have a nice assortment of them - they are all about 2 1/2" and they cost $5.99; a red/blue/white tricolor, a dark black/dark orange one, a "bessie" one - it looks like a cow (white with blue/black spots), a "creamsicle" one - white with light orange spots, and a yellow one which we got for free because it was the "runt" of the litter (we made sure it was disease-free as much as we could - it's also doing fine).

Quick question:

Will Koi be okay on just regular Wardley's Tropical Fish Flakes for a while? We are going to get "koi food" - the little orange pellets - soon, but I want to know if they'll be alright for a couple of days. They seem to eat them okay, but they can't always get them in their mouths (I sometimes forget to crumple them up) and they don't seem too enthused. Also, is it strange for the koi too be hardly seen during the day and only come out at night for food, then stay up until 10 or so? They seem healthy, and I've only had them for a few days.

[1KoidialDude]

where is this pond at "in the U.S." is it constantly at 50deg Koi don't mind cold however they don't like to eat to much when it's cold so they won't grow much either and when it's cold they tend to lye dormant more often do you have oak tree leaves and could put a bit in the bottom for them to snuggle up in , and if you have an air stone take it up to about 3 inches from the surface as to not stir up the cold to much
can chat more later tired now

it say's in your profile that your a fish breeder, what kind do you breed?
and do you have any ready for sale

[John]

I never said I was a fish breeder already... do you mean those topics under my latest posts?

Justin (my business associate) and I will begin breeding fish in my "fish room" ("John's Jungle") pretty soon. It will be a learning experience, pretty much, since I don't have a whole lot of experience breeding fish. However, I do have the resources and what not, and we can both devote a lot of time to this hobby. Hopefully, if things go right, we will begin selling next Spring to the Milwaukee area (Um, our neighbors), but maybe we will get into mail order stuff and shipping... it depends on a lot of things.

As far as the koi are concerned, we both live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which is in the midwest of the U.S.A. The pond temperature has already risen up to 58, and hopefully this weather will start to resemble Summer soon. I'm sure it will.

The koi are doing great. We're getting "Koi Pellets" later, so we'll see if that and the warm weather will get them more lively. I'll be patient.

[atltk]

I have koi & goldfish in a pond in the Blue Ridge Mtns of NC and while it gets very cold there, they are all fine. I don't even have to feed them as the natural inscets and such do a good job on their own.