The Koi Care & Feeding Master Page
This is home base for all of the stuff we're doing to/for the koi, other than just gazing at them in awe and fascination...
Mama's Little Slimen, the day-to-day testing and treating results blog. Entries are current, and I'm working backwards to catch up with everything from Day 1.
Fish Under Treatment
Calendar. Keeping track of recurring tasks, so I don't have to.
Conventions on the blog:
- buff(er) - total alkalinity
- nI - nitrIte
- nA - nitrAte
- NH3 - total ammonia
- SuperSpa - 800-gallon show tank, filled to about 700 gallons
- Spa - 300-gallon Rubbermaid stock tank
- Big Q 3 / BQ3 - 150-gallon Rubbermaid stock tank
- Little Pond - 5,000-gallon koi pond
- Paws are the pectoral fins...
- NT - no treatment
- NR - non-remarkable
- BUI is BuffItUp
- PP - potassium permanganate
- M - mercurachrome
What we test with:
- AquaChek Pond Test Strips - ammonia
- AquaChek Pond Test Strips - pH, buffering capacity, nitrIte, nitrAte
- AquaChek Pool & Spa Test Strips - total hardness, total & free chlorine, pH, total alkalinity
- Aquariam Pharmaceuticals' Ammonia test
Last update: 31 July 2011
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