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Saturday, August 17, 2013

Indoor Koi Ponds For Your Home Or Business

Indoor Koi Ponds Call for Natural Accommodations.

Many company enterprises have built indoor Koi ponds in their workplace to invite patrons as well as enhance the interior scene. There are many obstacles and challenges with maintaining Koi fish indoors because their usual environment is living outdoor and to enable the fish to retain their lifestyle certain changes must be considered.

The amount of pond fish living in indoor Koi ponds should be restricted to no more than one inch of koi fish per cubic foot of pond water. This will allow each koi the room it needs to move around freely and will not strain the food system. It's pretty strange actually but koi don't have stomach's instead a single vein takes out nutrients from the food as it passes through. Over feeding Koi is possible because, with no stomach, they do not know they are full. The end result is an ammonia buildup in the water and will cause the pond to emit a very bad stink or odor, not noticed in the outdoors due to natural ventilation.

As well, when the skin color of these ornamented koi fish are shielded from natural sunlight it will cause their coloring to appear pale. Designs with windows and skylights can offer some much needed sun, but of course nothing beats the real thing in keeping their coloring vivid. Some koi foods with additive have been made to aid them with color retention, but it too does not replace natural sunlight.

Accommodations To Make Fish Feel At home

With typical indoor Koi ponds retaining about 900 liters of fresh water for each koi, a quality filtering system will be needed to keep the water clean and less odorous. Then again, it may be required to change the water regularly, with about half of the total amount changed once a week. In addition a dehumidifier in the room will surely help reduce the humidity due to the open koi pond. The humidity can also add to the likelihood of mold growth and will have to be monitored closely.

Some filtration filters are large and noisy and some commercial restaurants opt to place them away from main areas that are open by moving tubing full of water to and from the pond filters. Even with adequate filtration measures for koi ponds in position the need to change the water will become apparent by studying to see how dirty the pond water becomes and how bad it smells. Eventually cleaning and a water changing calendar can be established.

The area around indoor Koi ponds should be designed to keep the occasional jumping fish in the pond. If one gets out and no one notices, it can become a health hazard as well as an odorous problem.

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