10 Reasons Why Koi Fish Are Unique?

1. The King of Exotic Freshwater Fish
Koi is the biggest exotic fish of freshwater fish and represent prestigious fish. Its big head decorated by a couple of moustache. Its moustache make different by cooky fish, Auratus Carassius. They swim as a king and once in a while will jump water exit demonstrate its inviting buttonhole. Koi is the King of exotic freshwater fish.

Koi fish grow very fast. As imagine, at the first year they will grow about 10-20 cm, at the second 24-30 cm, and at the third 37-40 cm. If we keep them as well, at the fifth year total length of the fish will reach 45-50 cm, and at the year the tenth will be 55-70 cm. What have been noted there, record of koi till 1,53Mtrs length and 45Kgs weigh.

2. Koi have low cost but beautiful appearance
Koi that winning on the contest can be sold till more than 10 million yen (more than $12,000.00). In general. people have an opinion that koi as exotic fish which high costly price.
Even that way, a little koi only sold at the price started from of $0.1 and higher depend on koi larger. You can choose good koi by your well checking. You are also very easy to keep koi fish as easy as breeding koi. And in short time we will get beautiful koi by our best treatment, even getting the contest as a winner.

3. Koi have easy environments adaptation
Koi is also known as easy fish adaptation to new environment. Koi can occupy most of all freshwater places. When you move koi from one place to new environments, not allowed to place them directly without some adaptation, or the koi will death.

Some hobbies usually fly low first when will keep koi fish, because they do not have enough garden around their house. It is a big mistake, because koi no need large place to live. By 3.3 m2 of land is enough to keep this beautiful fish. Even more, there is some one who place koi at the balcony. With small place, of course it’s water have to be change every day. That way, in fact everyone can take koi fish as their home pet.

It is required larger place to place beautiful and big koi. At least, providing pond for 15-30 m2 with 1.2 m as ideal deepness. To get good condition of koi pond, some sanitary equipments is needed, like water filter, aerator, ect. To keep of pond cleaning, water conducted to change every day. For the metropolis or industrial town ground water that possible have hard contamination.

4. Koi are easy to accept any food
One cause why koi is easy to be kept is that koi easy to accept any kind of food. It is different with frogs that need some special food of them. While koi is familiar with any food from any form (flora or fauna), even bread is still accepted.

But, to get koi which grow healthy with beautiful color, we need to feed our koi with artificial food made from vegetables and of animals as well as very well vitamins to growth of its body color.
Besides the artificial food, we have to feed them by natural food like prawns, worm, crab, and snail. Comparison of vegetable with flesh is 6 : 4. But, the most easiest for us is using the ready foods from supermarket.

5. Koi make all family thinking same happiness
In general, a hobby is personal owning. When a father has hobby with his birth, other persons in same family may be can not enjoy their hobby, because they don’t know what thing make them interested to the birth. It is different with the Koi. Keeping koi fish will make a nice effect to all member of one family. Some family that keep koi, assume that koi as their own family. So, all thing regarding koi, food, sanitary, and others will be their problem together.
6. Koi are tame and gentle
There is no boss in one group of koi, and there is no a harsh of male to female. As older one place, koi will not against to new comer. Koi is very gentle.
Koi is also tame. If we keep koi by good habit, they will see us as friendly. we can feed themt by our hand directly to their mouth. Koi will swim near and dine food from our hand smoothly. Even If we give food rather to upside water level, koi will appear to the tops of the water and eat the food from hand. As it does look like cat or dog, we can give koi with name we want. Koi will be near by owner when called as their name, even a koi drink coffee of its owner.
When we have some problem, either in office or with our family, we can spend time for making a joke with the loves of koi. Believe, our problems will be loosed, or at least we can forget the problem for a moment that encumber us.
7. Koi have kind of body color

We know that koi have immeasurable shade which is very a lot, and we can make it as the beautiful color. Each koi have different color, so that it caused every owner is proud by their koi each other.
As beautiful and antique as any painting is the static object, while the koi is creature which is dynamic life. Koi colour is dynamic along with their development everyday, a period and season. They can also interest with their variegation like white, red, black, blue, yellow, dark blue, yellow gold, silver, and auburn.
Thera are not two koi have 100% same color pattern in the world. Koi color can develop follow their age.


8. Koi Can Become Friend For A Lifetime
About 15 year ago, it was very difficult to make koi alive especially at four season country.
Entering winter season, koi usually will "scale off", because do not hold up with extremes temperature change that till some point under 0OC. Koi is easy death and can not be their home pets.

Many hobbies learned more how to make their pets survive in long time. Some problem of them can be solved by some treatment to make koi still a live so long. By smart effort we do, koi can be the one of our daily friends for a lifetime. We just keep them by the best treatment that we can do. Clean pond/pool as well as we take care of our life.
Koi’s age is more long life. As average koi age is 50 – 75 years, so called as lifetime keeping. The longest of koi record is 226 years of age. It variety is Higoi (red), female, length 70cm and weigh 9 Kg. Koi’s age can be known by “years circular” in the bottom of koi body.

9. Koi also called as samurai fish

Koi is Famous as brave fish and not afraid to anything until they dead. For this reason, koi in Japan called as samurai fish.
Koi can generally live around 70 years. But there is some which is 200 years age. Because of its life age is like tortoise and flamingo, koi is also named as party fish.

In Japan, informed that koi can swim-up along waterfall. For the reason this fish [is] considered to be evocation symbol in the world. Koi also served at night mausoleum feast, because believed as luck carrier. So, it is not surprise if many people try to keep koi as their friend at home.

10. Koi are the Japan culture

Koiis born from black carper fish by mutation. Same with other fish, it will breed. It is a Japanese habit. They will try to multiply it as beautiful as their “parent”. Commonly, the most Japanese have koi pond in their home.

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