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16-06-2021, 07:34 PM #1
Heating your koi pond in the summer?
This is obvious to anyone who has keeping KOI in both Japan and the UK, and I am sure you will agree with me, but when I was in the UK it was very difficult for people to understand.
Recently I did some research again and found that people are still very keen to keep the pond warm in the winter months, but I couldn't find anyone who was willing to keep the water warm enough in the summer to encourage growth.
Koi Carp: Heating your koi pond in the summer?
I found this person by chance. He doesn't have any experience of keeping KOI in Japan, so he is speaking from his imagination, but I think his insights are excellent and he is right.
Is this kind of opinion still in the minority and that it will be difficult to spread??
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16-06-2021, 08:40 PM #2
I think this is the major difference in koi keeping between east and west...
Maximising growth is all well and good,
Most people i think are happy to see thier koi grow quickly when young.
But most koi keepers in this country don't keep koi to enter into shows.
But as a personal hobby and as pets.
Anď have modest ponds of 1000 to 4000 gallon.
If thier 10 to 30 odd koi made close to a meter in a short time,
They would quickly run out of space and have to move them on...
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17-06-2021, 05:47 AM #3
Naoki, I think you might be surprised.... There are many that now heat their ponds in the UK, and with an ASHP its not expensive to heat above ambient in the summer months, and effectively what an ASHP is designed for.
The article you link to is15 years out of date btw !!Last edited by Spongebob; 17-06-2021 at 06:17 AM.
Fibreglassed/5000 gals/4.5 m Tunnel/Spindrifter/Twin drums/Bio chambers/Beads/Showers/Remora ASHP
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17-06-2021, 07:56 PM #4
I don't want to get into your hobbies, but as I said in the previous EKF Grow & Show thread, I thought I'd mention it because I know you're all keen and interested in growing your own little TOSAIs these days!
It is not a difference between the East and the West, and I personally think that this is the greatest interest and pleasure of the average hobbyist.
Yes, that's right. That's what I'm focusing on. When I was in the UK and we tried it, we had to stop because of the cost, because we were using LPG gas.
The benefits are definitely greater in the summer than in the winter. I would like to talk to you about this.Last edited by Naoki Atsumi; 17-06-2021 at 07:58 PM.
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17-06-2021, 09:02 PM #5
i'd not argue about growing on tosai, it's a popular thing over here.
but lots do so in grow on tanks, so you can easily heat a smaller body of water all year round for low cost,
and control the higher feeding better.
me i'm just intersted in having a pond of nice healthy koi to enjoy, not so keen on the growing on thing atm.
but maybe that will change in time...?
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17-06-2021, 09:08 PM #6Freddyboy the legend
"we are water keepers first"
Johnathan
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17-06-2021, 09:39 PM #7
I love the growth side of things, and although I don't have a grow on, I am enjoying watching the growth in the pond! I have high hopes for my Tosai this year
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18-06-2021, 03:04 AM #8
I know plenty of people who heat their ponds in summer. I heat my pond in summer- it’s at 24.5C currently and has been for over a month. I have solar panels and an ASHP so it costs almost nothing to do it.
2016 new 6000 gallon pond
https://www.koiforum.uk/pond-construc...ghlight=feline
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18-06-2021, 08:34 AM #9
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18-06-2021, 12:35 PM #10
That's great! If seasonal feeding techniques like ours spread to everyone in the UK there will be ever happen to be grand champions, but once every few years, a small KOI bought at a low price by an unknown enthusiastic hobbyist grew up will get an adult champion or a mature champion and beat a KOI bought expensive by a rich man exciting things may happen!
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18-06-2021, 12:51 PM #11
At 20° C it is possible to feed in a very normal way, moving on to 22° C and 24° C to achieve the extreme maximum feeding methods practised by the more advanced hobbyists in Japan. This is the preliminary stage, practised in the winter, but it only takes a few months for the little TOSAI to grow up to this level.
https://youtu.be/_ZTY4WNukFw
https://youtu.be/1SBl7V28TXI
They seem to achieve these results by setting the temperature at 24~5 degrees Celsius for each of them and by feeding at a ridiculous frequency rather than quantity.
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18-06-2021, 01:36 PM #12Fibreglassed/5000 gals/4.5 m Tunnel/Spindrifter/Twin drums/Bio chambers/Beads/Showers/Remora ASHP
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18-06-2021, 04:06 PM #13
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31-07-2021, 10:10 PM #14
I think it is a bad habit to have sales and events in August in the UK. I think it should be changed gradually, if not immediately.
Incidentally, in our part of the world, most sales are over by late May and from then until October, breeders, dealers and hobbyists alike concentrate on the feeding period. The more experienced they are, the less they like to be netted. These summer scenes and customs of ours were rarely covered or experienced by your KOI pioneers until now.
I think this is the root of the great cultural and customary differences that exist to this day.Last edited by Naoki Atsumi; 01-08-2021 at 06:13 AM.
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09-08-2021, 11:42 AM #15
This time we found a video of a midsummer scene in a Japanese hobbyist's pond, not a breeder's!
https://youtu.be/7Fr-kE6XwZA
See how the KOI moves and looks!
By creating these conditions, the KOI becomes healthier and stronger.
We hope that European hobbyists will improve their KOI keeping by creating these conditions during the summer months.
※I think the noise is due to the fact that a low pressure system with strong winds has been passing through Tokyo since just after the closing ceremony yesterday.
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11-08-2021, 08:02 AM #16
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11-08-2021, 09:51 AM #17
Yep I would agree, some lovely koi though. What I would say is the behaviour reminds me of every koi in every pond/shop I see when they see someone as they think they are getting fed. The reason these koi are so ravenous is because they probably have to battle for every single bit of food or starve, very easy to achieve to get the koi competing for food, we do this in fishing to Catch more.
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11-08-2021, 10:38 AM #18
It's not just greed, you know. It's because they have been tamed a bit to become so.
On the contrary, every hobbyist pond in the UK has a KOI that is often nervous and cautious.
I think the main reason for this is that they have been netted and touched too much without regard to seasonality.
So after disinfecting and sizing them in early summer, we should disturb them as little as possible until autumn.
No netting, no buying new KOI.
It's as if the breeders released them into a mud pond to gradually build up their appetite, and when they are ready,we should just concentrate on feeding.
This seasonal schedule is a mess in the UK. When I was in the UK, it was the same.
No one noticed or pointed it out. I was fed up with business always coming first.
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11-08-2021, 07:45 PM #19
The main thing your missing here Naoki, is that people build ponds and buy fish because it makes them happy and this is how they enjoy their hobby. They are not buying to follow Japanese guidelines on how to enjoy their pond. Also, I would imagine 99% of koi hobbyists in the UK do not want to net fish out and check them, it's more to investigate an issue they may be faced with. Having said that, with my koi, I have netted and treated them before, only for them to go back in the pond and come up 2 minutes later and eat all the food. I think a lot of your ideas of UK hobbyists may be inaccurate in this day and age.
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11-08-2021, 10:45 PM #20
Best plants to remove Nitrate
pug has a very impressive veg filter on his pond, have a look at some of his his youtube videos....