Koi Filtration - Natural
Requiring no weekly management but one big yearly overhaul, natural filtration is the easiest there is. Relying on live plants and organic processes, water quality is usually superb. Described and common mistakes illustrated, visit this site!

Koi Food & Feeding
What should you feed your koi? How many times per day? Is Corn really that bad in a Koi diet? What are the most common feeding mistakes people make? What's the best food?

Koi and Pond Hard Goods
So many places these days, are pure ripoffs. Finding a reputable dealer of koi and pond hard goods isn't as easy as you would think but there's ways to tell. The product line should be to-the-point and not contain shams. Who's doing it right? Visit this site!

Finding Reputable Dealers
The fish are only as good as the dealer holding them. Quarantines, guarantees and fish quality all factor in. What to ask, what to see and how to handle your new fish.

Books on Koi Diseases
You will be introduced to Dr Johnson's Koi Health book but also to other books he's reviewed.

Help With Koi Problems
Koi Community rates a variety of forums and message boards on ease of use, friendliness and quality of help. Not all boards are created equal. Not mincing words here.



Potassium permanganate

Potassium permanganate is a caustic alkali with a purple color when dissolved in water. It will usually arrive in a powder or granular form. Be careful when handling this compound. Tiny amounts of dust will be distributed around the area and once wet, will result in a purple stain. Stains that you may get on your hands are brown in color and last quite a while. Potassium permanganate is hazardous to your eyes and so protective eyewear is recommended.

Potassium permanganate is indicated in all of the following conditions: Bacterial Gill Disease, Bacterial infections of the body and fins, Ciliated protozoan infestations except Ich, Flukes, and Fungus infections. Potassium permanganate will have no effect on crustacean parasites although it may decrease the survival of the immature forms of these pathogens. Ich will remain safe under the skin from the potassium permanganate and will not be cleared.

Advanced hobbyists commonly use potassium permanganate as a dip. I highly discourage this. There are many superb methods of surface disinfection in fish without a high dose potassium permanganate dip, which can and often does burn fins and gills.

It is important to discuss the behavior of potassium in water. “Active” potassium permanganate is purple when applied to the water. Potassium permanganate naturally dissociates into Manganese dioxide. This is brown in color. In many instances, it settles out or binds to “organics” on the sides of the tank and the fish. The water may remain amber for a while after treatment unless de-colorized. Amber water represents “Inactive” potassium permanganate.

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Koivet.com
Koivet is a venerable, long lived koi and pond fish health site started by Dr Erik Johnson in 1994 as an off shoot of his first few websites at Mindspring.com. Now Koivet is full of information and movies and more.

Koi Beginner
Once you've leapfrogged through this tutorial you will have a solid, working concept of the Koi hobby and what it's all about. This is done just about exclusively with video and very little written material.

DrJohnson.com
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Fishdoc.co.uk
By Frank Prince-Iles. A UK authority who put this site together some time ago and which is still relied upon as a major source of good Koi and pond fish information

Fish Medicines
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PondCrisis.com
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KoiCrisis.com
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Buying Domestic Koi
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Buying Imported Koi
A Japanese or Israeli imported Koi is a beautiful thing. Why would you buy one of those? How do you identify a "good one"? And what kinds are there? Who would you buy one from?

Koi Filtration - Bead
With a little bit of management every week or so, you can have gin clear water in your koi or fish pond. Bead filtration is more than ten years old and defines the state of the art in Koi and pond fish ponds.