Ok, thanks for the advice. I guess I need to buy a testing kit of sorts to
check on the levels. We had an early winter storm here and I may have
jumped the gun and put them in the tank early. I did use half pond water
and some lava rock from my outside filter, so I hope they will do ok. My
koi did jump out when I was acclimatizing them to the new tank. I had them
in a 5 gallon pail sitting in the new tank to get the temperatures even and
my wife came across the koi laying on the floor. She yelled for me to come
and pick it up and when I did he was already drying out. I held him in the
water turbulence and a fin moved, then he sort of picked up and a week later
he is doing well, but not eating like the goldfish yet. I have been using
pellet food and he just doesn't seem interested yet.

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once the aquarium is cycled then check the nitrates. if the temps inside
is
significantly cooler (basement) dont feed them that often. high quality
food has
less waste. 4-5 flakes of food twice a day is normal feeding of 5-7
inchers. if
you only want to change water once a week, then adjust feeding so nitrate
levels only
reach 20 ppm per week.
be sure to keep top covered, that koi will jump.
it is possible to keep your fish outside in winter. I do with a heater, a
bucket
filter and plastic cover on my pond. altho we only get -20oF here.
http://www.mu.edu/~buxtoni/mypond/winters/winter.htm Ingrid

"Grandpa" wrote:

Hello. I just had my first pond this summer and things went fairly well.
I
have 1 koi and 3 goldfish and I live in Canada where they would not
survive
the -40 weather in January so I brought them in the other day. My
question
is now what, how much, and often to feed the 4 of them. The koi is about
7
inches, the others are about 5. They are now all in a 70 gallon aquarium.
I have been giving them pellet food in the pond on occasion and they
really
have been fattened up on all the crickets we had the last month that
committed suicide in the pond. Do I continue with the pellet food in the
house and feed them every other day, or what is the guidelines here? I
don't want to overfeed them and deal with all the poop they will be
putting
out. By the way, I have a fluval 304 filter hooked up to the tank.

Thanks.




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