Re: [GSAS-Member] Koi in an Aquarium?

["Betty Goetz" <haika@drizzle.com>]

It's all the dilemma of 'do-I-want-to-MAXIMIZE' the size of a fish or give
it a healthy environment that may not make it the biggest fish possible? I
run across that with talk about goldfish all the time. I've got some
simple comets I've had for over 10 years and none of them are larger than
roughly 3 1/2" - 4" because they've been in whiskey-barrel size
mini-ponds. They eat, they roughhouse and they produce babies so I don't
think they are in awful shape. I just have to remind myself that I'm
personally not thinking about koi from a competitive perspective but more
from an enjoyment perspective. So if I have some koi I enjoy keeping but
they aren't the size of a small porpoise, that's OK.

I'm hoping to put in a solarium/sunroom on the south side of my house with
an adjacent koi pond in the next 2-5 years (sooner the better). The
smaller koi pond just outside the office space at Pan Intercorp is kind of
what I had in mind....or a more above ground 'model'. I've been wondering
if koi that have been in a more size-restricted space for a number of
years would grow if put into a larger space???? That said, I have 2 of the
smallish koi from the koi show in a 150g stock tank so we'll see what
happens.....

Betty Goetz

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