Top 5 Koi Videos

The top 5 “Koi” videos on YouTube:

#1 Baby duck feeding Koi - Amazing footage of a duck feeding koi from it’s beak on top of a rock in the pond! (34 seconds 1,989,300+ views)

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#2 Koi coming out of the water to get food - These koi are h-u-n-g-r-y! (2:29 137,533+ views)

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#3 My Koi Pond – A koi enthusiast videos his backyard koi pond for us. Its about 1000 gallons and their koi were raised from small ones. (4:51 86,563+ views)

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#4 My Koi Fish – Dr. Hsu says: “Looking at koi fish swimming elegantly in the pond, you feel the serenity of nature and you forget all the worldly problem. It has therapeutic effects. Koi can recognize people and my koi can feed from my palms.” (1:31 78,837+ views)

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#5 Koi Fish Swimming in Nagoya – Japanese Koi fish swimming in the pond at Tokugawa Koen, Nagoya. (37 seconds 64,754+ views)

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Why not video tape your koi pond and submit it to YouTube? It’s easy to do and your fellow koi lovers around the world will appreciate your efforts.

For more koi videos visit our YouTube channel at HappyPonds. If you have a video to suggest please let us know.

How to Buy Koi

This is a good video for those of you who are considering the koi hobby and becoming koi caretakers. It’s slightly under 6 minutes in length and worth the time for newbies. The one thing I’ll add is the “very long time” they refer to when talking about the koi’s life could be well over 30 years. The koi in our pond are over 25 years old and going strong.

Happy koi shopping!

For more videos visit our Happy Ponds Channel on YouTube.

Video of a Duck Feeding Koi

This is incredible footage of a very generous duck feeding very appreciative koi. Well worth the 30-some seconds.

I suspect the duck figured out that feeding the koi was the only way he wasn’t going to end up on the menu!

For more videos visit our YouTube channel at Happy Ponds.

Choosing the Right Koi Food

Earlier this week I had the good fortune to speak with the owner of one of the top koi fisheries in the US. I asked about his koi food bill because I knew it must be pretty significant to sustain his 400,000 koi. He confirmed that it was indeed a helluva lot of money and his single largest expense. No, I didn’t ask how much it was. 

He also mentioned that he had recently switched his source of koi food and that he was blown away by the difference. His fish were growing 25% faster then they were on the previous koi food!

I’m not mentioning any names because I don’t want to give away any of his secrets. The main point I want to make is that choosing koi food is actually a very important decision if you want healthy growing fish in your pond. Increasing growth by 25% is obviously extremely important to a fishery and meaningful to their business. Someone who has young fish in their pond will also appreciate these types of results although the value may not be viewed with the same criteria. 

Choosing the best food for fish isn’t rocket science, but it is important. As a caretaker of koi ypu need to spend some time researching the different types of food available and what might be best for the age of your fish and your goals. A breeder and someone with a pond full of mature adult koi that doesn’t enter them into competition have very different needs. Likewise the amount of money each might be willing to spend will vary.

For koi the three basic foods needed are food for fish you want to grow as quickly as possible, food for adult fish that need sustaining food, and medicated fish food for those times when your pond may not be as happy as you’d like. And then there are foods that can enhance the color of your fish for those who are more serious about their koi. 

Different brands use ingredients of differing levels of quality and that can’t be determined by the price tag. If only shopping could be so easy! Stronger brands can charge more then a lesser known brand regardless of whether or not their product is better. Fortunately, at least in the case of buying koi food, prestige isn’t much of a factor so ego can be set aside. What’s important is that your fish are getting the best food available for them at an affordable price that is sustainable for your wallet. 

More then likely you’re not going to conduct any scientific experiments so you’ll end up reading what you can find and asking some people whose opinions you respect. In my case I asked someone who owns 400,000 koi because I know the difference in the quality of the food relative to the cost is exceptionally important.  Whether or not I can buy the same in quantities that won’t fill up our garage I just don’t know yet. Stay tuned.

Now that’s a lot of fish to feed!

MAKC 18th Annual Koi Show

Interesting video for those of you unfamiliar with how koi are judged in competition.

For more information on the Mid-Atlantic Koi Club (MAKC) visit their Website at: MAKC

Natural pond products compared to manmade products

Clearly we all want what’s best for the health of our fish and our families so let’s take a look around to see what’s in the various pond products available and whether or not there are natural pond products like water treatment products that we should try.

We’ll be right back… must tend to the kids.