What time of year can you stock koi contained by a pond?
Better yet is there any bad times to stock koi?
Anytime. BUT= learn about acclimating fish. Fish are poikilothermic, explicitly, they will be the same temperature as their environment. You will stress them (sometimes to a point of killing them) by varying their temperature too fast. The greater the difference in heat between your fish and the water you are moving them to, the longer you should take to acclimate them.
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http://www.funfishtank.com/2006/09/the-b...
The spring is the best time because they will be more stable and ready for the winter. The bad time is during the fall over because he will not be able to adapt to his new habitat surrounded by time for the winter, and he can die in the winter as a result of that.
Answers: best to put koi contained by the summer time as in a tank they are used to cold water summer time weather give them a chance to get used to warmer weather conditions afterwards as the climax changes they slowly get used to the cold weather again my grandad didn't feed his from october to february because of the diff hose changes but in uk tho and his has last for 10 years +
whether you don't have any winter in your area anytime will do whether you got winter the best time for stocking is summer
kOi keeper & goldfish keeper
