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From: Jon Pike
Date: 12/10/2004 8:12 AM Central Standard Time
Message-id: 9

"Happy'Cam'per" wrote in :


OK Dude, you REALLY can't keep 2 koi in a 55 gallon tank,,,,,,thats
too hilarious, kind of like keeping 2 Hippos in a bathtub. Rule of
thumb for Koi (if memory serves) is 1000 Gallons for the first koi and
100 gallons each for every Koi after that. You might get away with 5
goldfish in that tank, certainly not koi, they need clean ammonia free
water, something that your tank will never be able to give them.
Either dig yourself a pond for them or exchange them for something a
tad more suitable to your tank size. They will slowly die if you leave
them in current quarters! --
"In the beginning, God said the four-dimensional divergence of an
antisymmetric,
second rank tensor equals zero, and there was Light , and it was
good."

"Jon Pike" wrote in message
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"Happy'Cam'per" wrote in
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You forgot to add Rec.ponds to your list of crossposts!
Go ask there for more specific answers, sounds like it could be
ammonia poisoning, you either have too high a fishload or your
filtration is not keeping up with the cycle. HTH
--
"In the beginning, God said the four-dimensional divergence of an
antisymmetric,
second rank tensor equals zero, and there was Light , and it was
good."

"Jon Pike" wrote in message
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Okay, one of my koi's seems to be getting sick. I noticed just
today that on his belly he's got reddish/brownish lumps. Normally
it's flat white. What could this be?
TIA.

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It's a 55 gallon tank with only two fish in it that has been running
for over 4 months.

There is no ammonia in my tank.
And to say that one single koi requires a minimum of 1000 gallons is
rediculous. You don't even know how big these fish are.

It's not about what size they are at this very momemnt. You see fish grow. When
these Koi start growing out what are you going to do with them?
Happy is thinking of adult size and he knows what he's talking about when he
said it would like trying to keep a couple of Hippos in a tub.
Koi grow huge and have no business being in a home aquarium, unless of course
they're babies that are being grown out *for* the pond (or even wintering
over).