New fish

[Nepen]

My new fish for KTTW arrived!!! They are watonai and wakin and 2 males and 1 female (the seller confirmed this for me)

They arrived well pack and seemed active. I put them in a small QT tank for now with air bubble since my pump hasn't arrive yet. The female was a little stress and stay quietly at the bottom but would swim here and there so I put a little salt in the tank just to help her calm a bit more.

The female watonai

The males

 

[JohnHuff]

Nice!

 

[Tula]

Exciting!

 

[Mmathis]

Nice! Is that a baby fish in the 4th picture (think it was #4....)?

 

[j.w]

Cool looking fish!

 

[Sunshine]

You got some nice looking fish there

 

[haver79]

Very pretty fish!

 

[Priscilla]

Very very nice!

 

[JBtheExplorer]

first one is my favorite. Reminds me of a jaguar with those spots!

 

[Nepen]

Thanks all. I'm pretty happy with the quality and the variety I got, all different style.

@Mmathis that's my baby guppy sneaking in from the pond water I put in the qt tank lol.

The fish are doing great. I fed them 3 tiny meals now and they've been coming up to eat but if they saw me they will huddle together at the bottom, kinda cute actually.

 

[Mmathis]

Thanks all. I'm pretty happy with the quality and the variety I got, all different style.

@Mmathis that's my baby guppy sneaking in from the pond water I put in the qt tank lol.

The fish are doing great. I fed them 3 tiny meals now and they've been coming up to eat but if they saw me they will huddle together at the bottom, kinda cute actually.

How big did your QT end up being? Be sure not over feed them -- I'm thinking that I was advised to limit their food while they are in QT -- watch your water quality very closely!

They are beautiful!

 

[Lisaebetten]

Oh how exciting to see other people fishies!!! It's like seeing their human babies all over. I can tell I am in for a ride here.

 

[LibraKoi]

Very Cool! New fish are exciting.

 

[Nepen]

How big did your QT end up being? Be sure not over feed them -- I'm thinking that I was advised to limit their food while they are in QT -- watch your water quality very closely!

They are beautiful!

Thank you My QT tank is not very big right now, I'm planning on doing water change every 1- 2 days. I fed them about 2-3 flakes each each time but I'll only give them (about the same amount) once a day from now on. I added rocks/ media from my pond to the QT tank and put the air stone at the bottom to create the water movement, I'm getting my pump today so I can do a better proper filter (going to be shower filter type)

I found a method of QT from DoDad (in his 2010 post) below, I think I might try that but I'll have to make a new water for them since I added salt to the tank right now.

My first QT was only 150 gallons, this is ok for small fish but the big ones need a bigger one.Without a cycled bio-filter you will need to do more frequent water changes, perhaps daily. An air pump w/ a stone would also be a good investment, but not required unless water temps are above 75 degrees. Test the water frequently. Ideally there will be 0 Ammonia, 0 Nitrites and low nitrates. If your tests show any ammonia, do a partial water change. It might be necessary to add some type of ammonia binder like Amquel or Chloram-X.
The QT should have NO Salt level in the water prior to adding the new fish IF you are going to treat them with ProForm-C. Do not feed the new fish for the first two or three days.
The day the koi arrive float the bag in the qt for 1/2 hour, this is so they can adjust to temp changes. make sure you have a net or cover for the jumpers.
The QT should have NO Salt level in the water prior to adding the new fish IF you are going to treat them with ProForm-C.
Day 2 treat the water with ProForm-C per instructions for the 3 days. Do water changes per the ProForm-C instructions.
After 24 hours from last treating with ProForm-C, add salt to bring the salt level in the water to 0.1%. 1lb. of salt per 100 gal. of water = 0.1% level in water.
Next day, increase the salt level to 0.2%.
Day 4 of salting, increase the salt level to 0.3%. This salt level eliminates 7 of the 9 possible bad parasites very quickly. And it will not harm your filtering system.
After the proform-C I treat them with Praziquantel.
It's very important that two treatments of Praziquantel are done about 4 to 7 days apart - whatever the package directions say. This kills the babies that are born after the adults are killed. The salt has no effect on Praziquantel.
Them I leave them in the qt for 3 weeks

 

[DoDad]

I now have a 700 gallon Q-tank with two Goshiki in it.