[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Koi
- To: <Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com>
- Subject: Re: Koi
- From: "Christopher W. Hunter" <timewind at midcoast_com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 22:50:26 -0500
- In-Reply-To: <199911252048.PAA26429 at actwin_com>
- User-Agent: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 5.0 (1513)
on 11/25/99 3:48 PM, Aquatic Plants Digest at
Aquatic-Plants-Owner at actwin_com wrote:
> My local fish stores (Denton/Victoria Aquatics in Carlisle, probably not
> very near where you are!) sells pretty good quality angels - mainly
> white and black but with the occasional tank of kois (anyone know if
> there's anything special about these?)
These are LARGER relatives of the goldfish. Big, beautiful, cold-water
fish that really aren't suitable for long term life in anything smaller than
a pond. (They get to the point where they are too long to turn around in
most indoor aquariums, and this isn't kind to them at all. I believe that
they also share the goldfish's dietary preferences, and being big herbivores
are a poor choice for environments where keeping plants is a primary goal.