What challenges Does Moving Koi Fish present?
Moving Koi fish can be a relatively straight forward procedure, including moving large Koi as long as you make the relevant plans beforehand.
Koi are ravenous creature that consume vast amounts of food and pollute their home with significant amounts of ammonia and solid waste. For this reason starve the Koi for at least 5 days before you intend to move them.
What Dangers Do Koi Carp Face When Moved To A New Pond?
As mentioned above primarily toxic poisoning if they are not starved beforehand. If they are not bagged securely and packaged correctly there is a chance that the bags may leak causing suffocation. The transportation method will need to ensure that the ride is as smooth as possible to prevent disturbing the Koi and causing shock.
What are the right and wrong ways/techniques to move Koi Carp?
You need to use heavy duty polythene bags and double bag each. Inflate the inner bag with oxygen and then using water from the existing pond fill the polythene bag to roughly 1/5 of the bags volume. Once each of the required number of bags is ready, place it in a secure box with the neck rolled down.
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