How To Articles

Flooming for Better Water Turnover and Aeration
By turning a small pump and aiming it UP you can create a gentle floom of water on the surface of the pond. Does a better job than an airtsone, but not as good as spraybars. HOWEVER, spraybars look contrived and awkward. Learn about flooming.

How to Manage Fresh Wounds
Managing fresh wounds usually involves minimal to no handling and then medicated food, tops..

How to Make a Darn Good Paste Food For Koi
Bil Wight shares a recipe for Koi food you can make. It's based on fish paste, then the goodies are added.

How to Bioseed a Fish Tank or Pond
Don't RUSH the Cycle - INSTALL it! Simple way to create a full nitrogen cycle in a new pond or tank. Just know how, before you try it.

How to Unclog Your Bubble Bead Filter
An article that shouldn't even be needed but with Bubblebeads there isn't any bead access so you have to learn to fix things from the outside.

How to Use Cat Litter In Your Pond
Chris Neaves writes about the similarities of Cat Litter to some of the more expensive clays being sold out there. Best I've read on this.

How to Set Up The Perfect Community Tank (Tropical Aquarist)
After setting up probably over a hundred fish tanks for myself I finally got one right....Here's how I did it. This article is for the Mom and Dad whose kid wants a fish tank and they don't know where to start...

Shopping for Your Community Tank Fish
Yeah, let's not buy fish that kill each other or that are really fragile for beginners....

Drip Irrigation for Constant SLOW replacement of Water
The way to change water which is slowly replacing the obsolete "drain and refill method which has caused so much trouble.

How to Euthanize a Koi or Pond Fish
Size matters, and so does sparing the dying fish ANY pain or fear.

How To Hand Tame Koi To Eat Out of Your Hand
Successful techniques need not change. This article was written about ten years ago by Sandy Hennessy. She will tell you how to hand tame your Koi fast.

How to Intercept Koi Diseases
Discover them early, head 'em off at the pass, prevent 'em....Lose as few fish as you can...

How to Outfit a Medicine Cabinet For Koi
Everyone is different so everyone will have different ideas on what goes in the Koi hobbyists medicine cabinet. The euro-pundits (link) will not use anything that doesn't have Japanese characters on it, even if it doesn't work. Most things are really simple unless you just WANT to complicate and reduplicate things.

How to Anesthetize a Fish
Don't try this if you don't understand what you're reading or you won't own the outcome. No matter what happens, you did it. Oil of Cloves is pretty safe. Here's how.

How To Make a Ph-Pill, and Why You Would Want To
The pH Pill was heralded as the worst-idea-ever by the pundits. As usual, it was a GREAT idea that they didn't think of, and it's come into wide spread usage and has saved countless Koi from pH crash. Very popular in retailer tanks.

How to Quarantine Koi
Hold onto your hat, this is "the article" on quarantine by Mike Singleton. At the end I will ask you if there are any questions. All I'll hear is crickets chirping. Thorough.

How to Receive Japanese Koi - For the Hobbyist
Me and some friends used to import Koi from my friend Haruhiko Satoh in Shimizu Japan. When they came in we found this to be the BEST way to limit losses.

How To Ship and Move Koi
This was written for people moving fish to shows, vet offices, from place they bought

How to Control String Algae
I wish setting up my coffeemaker program was as easy as String Algae control.

Winterizing Koi
A popular article on winter care of Koi.

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