Koi For Dummies

All you need to know about setting up a Koi habitat, selecting Koi, and keeping them healthy Want to keep Koi? This friendly guide shows you how to get started, with expert tips on everything from buying Koi and keeping them healthy to feeding, breeding, showing, and enjoying these gorgeous fish. You′ll see how to set up and maintain an indoor or outdoor pond or an aquarium, select filters and heaters, and handle your Koi properly. Discover how to Select healthy Koi Get all the right equipment Diagnose and treat common illnesses Keep your Koi safe year–round Raise baby Koi

Introduction. Part I: Koi Basics. Chapter 1: Going “Koi Kichi” — Crazy for Koi. Chapter 2: Knowing Your Koi. Chapter 3: Making Sure Koi Are Right for You. Chapter 4: A Koi Buyer’s Guide. Part II: Living with Koi, Inside and Out. Chapter 5: Preparing for Your Koi’s Homecoming. Chapter 6: Planning Your Koi Pond. Chapter 7: Building Your Pond. Chapter 8: Making It Pretty: Landscaping the Pond. Chapter 9: Maintaining Your Pond. Chapter 10: Keeping Koi Inside. Part III: Caring for Koi and Keeping Them Healthy. Chapter 11: Koi Nutrition 101. Chapter 12: Diffusing Koi Stress. Chapter 13: Spotting and Treating Common Koi Ailments. Part IV: The Big Leagues: Koi Breeding and Showing. Chapter 14: Breeding Koi. Chapter 15: The Small Fry: Bringing Up Baby Koi. Chapter 16: Koi Shows: Your All–Access Pass to Koi Kichi–dom. Part V: The Part of Tens. Chapter 17: Ten Things to Do When the Power Goes Out. Chapter 18: Ten Things to Check If Your Koi Seem Sick. Index.

R. D. Bartlett began his pet fish–keeping when he netted minnows out of the brooks near Springfield, Massachusetts. He moved to Florida and began working as the general manager for Aquarium Supply, a tropical fish, goldfish, and koi wholesaler, and then opened his own pet shop. Patricia Bartlett grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and began keeping fish at age 10. She has journeyed to Costa Rica and Peru to net and write about angelfish, discus, and knife fish. She is a recent convert to the wonderful world of koi. The Bartletts have co–authored numerous pet care books, mostly centering on reptiles and amphibians.