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Taking Care Of Your Garden Koi Pond at Home

koi_pondHaving a Koi pond at home is not as simple as building man-made pond in your garden, it doesn’t end in putting water and fishes into it either, and then you just leave it behind, and just pay attention to it whenever you want to feed your fishes or watch them. If you do this, don’t be surprised if in the next few days you’d see your Koi fishes floating lifeless in your pond. Koi fishes is believed to bring good luck, therefore take care of your lucky charms.

Taking care of fishes is then pond is not any different from taking care of fishes inside the aquarium, except that it’s in an environment that is likely to change more often, therefore more prone to growing algae and even water weeds. If you want to see your fishes grow, reproduce and stay healthy, you have to give them a good and clean environment to live on. You need to take time once in awhile to make sure that the water is clean, but this can be done without exerting too much effort with the help of pond filters. You also need to have an aerator, algae and bacteria control water treatments, and other pond supplies that will help you maintain your home pond on your own.

Another reason why you should take car of your pond is the fact that it has stagnant water unless otherwise you create an artificial free flowing water effect on it. As we all know, mosquitoes love to hang around and breed on stagnant waters. Even if the fishes are likely to eat them up even before the larvae grows into adult mosquitoes, it is still better to make sure that they don’t get to breed at all to avoid dengue fever or malaria.

Kids normally love fishes, or the idea of fishing and catching those fishes swimming around in whatever means they could think of, so educate them why they should not do it, and how they can help take care and maintain your beautiful home garden Koi pond. Also watch out for your pet cats that might be interested on feasting on your fishes. The pond will also be a great home environment for your pet turtles.

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Posted on October 16, 2009
Category: Family Home and Living, Home Design and Improvements
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