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Koi For Dummies
By: R. D. Bartlett , Patricia BartletteBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Imprint: For Dummies
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Known throughout the world for its beauty and personality, koi is one of the most carefully bred fish species around. Raising koi is especially time-consuming and requires more than just sprinkling little flakes in the fish bowl. But thankfully, you don’t have to be an expert to maintain your own koi pond.
Koi For Dummies shows you how easy and fun it can be to own and care for these delicate fish. Whether building a pond or aquarium for the indoors or outdoors, this easy-to-understand guide explores all of your options. Clear, concise advice helps you:
Appreciate your koi’s beauty Build, design, and maintain your koi pond or aquarium Find and select koi and the proper supplies Keep your koi happy and healthy Treat your koi for parasites, bacterial infections, and viruses Breed and care for baby koi Show off your koi to other koi enthusiasts
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| Title of eBook: Koi For Dummies | |
| Release Date: 05-04-2011 | |
| Publisher: For Dummies |
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Koi For Dummies
Chapter One
Going "KoiKichi"-Crazy for Koi
In This Chapter
* Discovering koi: More than just a pretty fish
* Seeking your own level of koi enjoyment
* Grasping the basics of a koi pond
* Sneaking a peak at the routine
* Taking care: A positive approach to your koi's health
* Rallying with a club: All for one, one for all
* Introducing activities to grow a koi obsession
Getting started with koi may seem to take a lot of effort. So what's to love about them - they're just fish, right? Sure, like a diamond's just a lump of carbon or a Beatles' song is just a collection of musical notes. Koi are the ultimate in fish, combining size, beauty, and grace in one plump package (or rather several plump packages because koi don't like to live alone). Because their ponds are designed to literally complement the fish, the ponds add to the aesthetics of koi ownership. When you watch koi slowly wheel around in their pond, you're observing creatures who occupy another world, one without strife, argument, crowded roads, or any of the other dubious benefits of civilization.
But you didn't pick up this book to figure out our philosophy of koi-keeping, although you'll probably find it sprinkled in here and there. You wanted to know what koi are, what it takes to keep them, and what makes seemingly normal people get crazy about them.
Your questions have you headed in the right direction and you're in the right place. This is the book that tells you how to get started with koi, how to keep them alive and healthy, what to feed them, and how t
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