OVER-FILTERING YOUR POND? by Carolyn Weise
I’ve often heard, and have said myself, that you can’t have too much filtration. I believed that. However, the size of your filter [...]
TAKING WINTER VACATIONS
Leaving your pond and koi in the summer generally means you will have someone else watch the pond while you are gone. Even [...]
WINTER FREEZE AND THAWS
Winter is never just “OMG, it’s freezing out!!” Winter always has its warm days, too. Those days, you will see fish coming to [...]
WHAT IF (A FISH GETS SICK?)
From now on, this is a difficult time to treat your pond. The “big guns” (such as Microbe-Lift/BSDT) cannot be used in the [...]
WINTER PREPARATION
September is the ideal time to begin preparing for the safety of your fish to over-winter. Here are some of the stress factors [...]
SUMMER CARE FOR PONDS
Feeding: especially in small or shallow ponds, be sure to watch the temperature of the water. At 80°F, revert to the spring Wheat [...]
FISH LICE
FISH LICE by Carolyn Weise The common fish louse (Argulus) survives in marine, brackish, and freshwater environments. Salt does not deter them. All life stages of [...]
SPRING FEEDING
by Carolyn Weise, Ecological Labs, Inc. When I started in this hobby, we opened our koi ponds by feeding them Honey Nut Cheerios. [...]
SCIENCE BEHIND SPRING SUMMER CLEANER
SSC packets contain strong psychrotrophic* bacteria to work in the warming waters of spring and summer. They also contain cellulase enzymes in a [...]
QUARANTINE
By Carolyn Weise, Ecological Laboratories, Inc. and Julius Tepper, DVM, Long Island Fish Hospital, Shirley, NY When I started collecting koi, I knew [...]