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The Truth About Koi Aquarium

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Hello and welcome to this article, you may be reading this because you are interested in buying a Koi aquarium so read on to find out if you should or shouldn’t.

Koi are extremely relaxing fish to watch and more and more people are starting to buy them, Koi have great colourings and are fantastic creatures.

The reason you are probably thinking about keeping them in a Koi aquarium is because you want to enjoy them in the house instead of leaving them outside.

Plus having them indoors protects them from being attacked by cats and wild animals.

As I’m sure you already know Koi will grow quite large, well over a foot long so it is important to know that you will need a good sized Koi aquarium if you wish to keep them inside.

Keeping Koi in a Koi aquarium is not a good thing to do for a couple of reasons.

Firstly Koi can become very active and splash about sometimes when they become excited so this is not good for the aquarium.

Read This Before Breeding Koi

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Hello and welcome to this article on breeding Koi, today I am going to be giving you some tips and information on how you should go about breeding Koi.

Firstly it may interest you to know that the best times of the year to breed Koi is during the months of April to July.

This has been proven by studies and from my own experience this is the best time for mating.

Now the 1st step you are going to take when breeding your Koi is to choose the Koi who you want to breed. When I am breeding Koi I choose to breed my favourite coloured koi.

So when you have chosen your favourite Koi to do the mating the next thing you need to do is to make sure they are sexually mature, A sexually mature Koi is usually around 9-10 inches long.

The next breeding Koi step after you have chosen your Koi you want to mate is to put them in a separate pond or tank.

The tank that you put them in needs a few specific things for them to mate successfully.