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.

• April 2004
• May 2004
• June 2004
• June 2005
• September 2005

Calendar. Keeping track of recurring tasks, so I don't have to.

• 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

• 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

© 2004-2011 Bob & Mo! Langdon

This page's URL: <http://www.langdon.org/test/koi/>