any one who has/have koi tank or koi fish in their tank?????
i want to share these fishes that make me feel at home when
we were in vacation trip



soon, i will post the picture of my friend's koi that we save when calamity
hit our place a few years back. he has a 3 footer in there....

nice, is that an oscar in there with them?

i am not sure... the guy in the hotel who doesn't speak english could not
explain what kind of fish is that. the fish has a long dorsal fin tip and
do not have any markings at all.......

apart from the colour and the long fin its a dead ringer for an oscar,interesting

fishboy747 wrote:

yeah, that was also what i thought when i was sitting on the edge of the
concrete tank.... i did measure the tank and it is 2 meters x 5 meters x 1 meter
with sump filtering box on the side wrongfully set up LOL

i have 4 koi that my sister bought a couple years ago... more trouble than they are worth! they make some mess with their waste, lots of ammonia, atleast as much as an oscar will make. i have to change the water in the koi's tank twice as often as the oscar's.








those 2 in the last picture, i moved to my 8' tank a few days ago to help improve water quality in that 55 they were in. i told my sis not to buy them in the first place, but people never listen. now shes at college, and im stuck taking care of an over stocked 55g with 4 koi and 3 goldfish in it and they are all big! the oscars arent taking kindly to the 2 intruders, and they are a bit roughed up the first day, but they seem to have calmed down alot now. one thing about it tho, if you have koi in your tank, you dont have to vac the gravel, because that is all they do, suck up rocks and spit them out!

I started out in the hobby with Koi- and common carp.
Some ate out of my hand and i liked them very much.
But taking good care of the fish they outgrew the tank within a year and a half.
That is the 180Gl i allready upgraded to, to keep them in the first place.
Carp are very restless fish and a tank will be too small pretty quickly.
Here's Tabitha as a baby, interacting with the carp.



the big one you see at 10 secs in the vid grew to over a foot in the next year, when i put it in my friends pond.
But it didn't only grow, the fish changed his colour and became allmost black instead of the dark blue he displayed in my tank.


That's one strange thing in Koi, they can change colour very easily and you never know what they'll look like in the end.
Same with this ghost koi, that i had.
It was very dark and in the pond became much lighter in colour.

cool win.... nice koi and gf there....

yeah..its true they suck and spit the pebbles all the time....
one time my secretary come rushing to me saying that my fish
are all starving since they eat pebbles...

lol paul, i had my sister conviced my dragon goby ate rocks because it did the same thing!

is it normal to keep koi in tanks? i was told by a guy at lfs that u could only really keep them in outdoor ponds

I too started out with a koi pond. still like them and make a great garden look even greater. i would like a arow pond now though. just to bloody cold in the uk

askhammatt wrote:

Very true!
You can keep them in tanks if they're small, but they do need a lot of swimmingspace.
I had a backup plan before hand, for there were enough people wanting my fish!
They ended up in 4 different ponds and i had a cycled tank, tested with a huge bioload!
And after they were rehomed i was ready for the real thing: Oscar!
The change in atmosphere in the tank was incredible.
When you look at my tank now, it's peacefull and quiet.
When i still had carp, they were allways busy, busy, busy!
Nice, but very different.