Comments on: Container Water Garden With Koi – Is This A Good Idea? http://www.the-artistic-garden.com/blog/container-water-garden-with-koi-is-this-a-good-idea/ Garden Art Projects and Tips Galore ... Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:27:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Claudia http://www.the-artistic-garden.com/blog/container-water-garden-with-koi-is-this-a-good-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-4338 Claudia Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:01:30 +0000 http://the-artistic-garden.com/blog/?p=111#comment-4338 Hi Joy: I've got some more pages on proper water quality tecnhiques and a little bit more on koi keeping on my main website: <a href="http://www.the-artistic-garden.com/garden-pond-intro.html" rel="nofollow">The-Artistic-Garden.com - Garden Pond Introduction</a>. You'll find links to all the other articles I wrote at the bottom of the introduction page. If you're thinking of keeping koi ... they MUST have more than ample room to swim and excellent water quality. They are NOT like goldfish - meaning koi aren't able to take as much stress and poor water quality and crowding like most goldfish can tolerate for a while. If you want koi ... study, study and then study up some more, especially on pond filtration and then you'll be ready to buy your first few koi. I'm really serious about this. You'll save yourself grief and wasted $$ and you wn't have poor dead koi to bury under your rose bushes. Good luck! Hi Joy:
I’ve got some more pages on proper water quality tecnhiques and a little bit more on koi keeping on my main website: The-Artistic-Garden.com – Garden Pond Introduction.

You’ll find links to all the other articles I wrote at the bottom of the introduction page.

If you’re thinking of keeping koi … they MUST have more than ample room to swim and excellent water quality. They are NOT like goldfish – meaning koi aren’t able to take as much stress and poor water quality and crowding like most goldfish can tolerate for a while. If you want koi … study, study and then study up some more, especially on pond filtration and then you’ll be ready to buy your first few koi. I’m really serious about this. You’ll save yourself grief and wasted $$ and you wn’t have poor dead koi to bury under your rose bushes.

Good luck!

]]> By: Joy http://www.the-artistic-garden.com/blog/container-water-garden-with-koi-is-this-a-good-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-4288 Joy Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:05:24 +0000 http://the-artistic-garden.com/blog/?p=111#comment-4288 Terrific post but I was wanting to know if you could write a litte more on this topic? I'd be very thankful if you could elaborate a little bit more. Bless you! Terrific post but I was wanting to know if you could write a litte more on this topic? I’d be very thankful if you could elaborate a little bit more. Bless you!

]]> By: Claudia http://www.the-artistic-garden.com/blog/container-water-garden-with-koi-is-this-a-good-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-257 Claudia Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:23:24 +0000 http://the-artistic-garden.com/blog/?p=111#comment-257 Hi Lucille: Thanks for sharing with us about your container water garden. **There is one thing I want to bring to your attention, and anyone else who will be wanting to include little fishies ... when refilling the container from the garden hose, be aware there is chlorine in the water, which in large amounts can be deadly to fish. When in doubt, add some dechlorinator (it is an affordable liquid - you'll be able to find it where aquarium fish are sold) following the instructions on the bottle. It will not harm your plants, and as a matter of fact by removing the chlorine, your plants will be a bit happier too. Hi Lucille:
Thanks for sharing with us about your container water garden.

**There is one thing I want to bring to your attention, and anyone else who will be wanting to include little fishies … when refilling the container from the garden hose, be aware there is chlorine in the water, which in large amounts can be deadly to fish.

When in doubt, add some dechlorinator (it is an affordable liquid – you’ll be able to find it where aquarium fish are sold) following the instructions on the bottle.

It will not harm your plants, and as a matter of fact by removing the chlorine, your plants will be a bit happier too.

]]> By: Lucille http://www.the-artistic-garden.com/blog/container-water-garden-with-koi-is-this-a-good-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-256 Lucille Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:24:35 +0000 http://the-artistic-garden.com/blog/?p=111#comment-256 I made a container water garden on my patio. It's about 18 inches square flower pot without a drain hole. I put a brick to sit an umbrella plant and added a floating hyacinth plant that mutiplied into 7 plants. I put in 10 gold comet fish but at night some wildlife kept fishing them out for a meal. So I now have a frog that made himself at home. He been living there for a week now. It's very easy to take care of. I just add water to it with the garden hose to refill the water that evaporated. I put some polished river rocks at the bottom and looks pretty. I had a hyacinth flower a few days ago. It only lasted a day. It looks like I'll be getting more flowers. I'm now looking forward to make another next summer. Lucille I made a container water garden on my patio. It’s about 18 inches square flower pot without a drain hole. I put a brick to sit an umbrella plant and added a floating hyacinth plant that mutiplied into 7 plants. I put in 10 gold comet fish but at night some wildlife kept fishing them out for a meal. So I now have a frog that made himself at home. He been living there for a week now. It’s very easy to take care of. I just add water to it with the garden hose to refill the water that evaporated.
I put some polished river rocks at the bottom and looks pretty. I had a hyacinth flower a few days ago. It only lasted a day. It looks like I’ll be getting more flowers. I’m now looking forward to make another next summer.

Lucille

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