Koi Care
Acclimate Your Koi
Acclimating your Koi is the first thing that you should do when you bring your Koi home. Acclimation is the process that gets a Koi used to new/different water. When acclimation is mentioned here, it is used to describe the process of an organism being forced to adjust to changes in their environment by artificial means.
When you acclimate, you:
- equalize the water temperature between the bag and the new pond
- equalize the pH level
- equalize many other water parameters
- acclimation eases the transition from one pond to another for a Koi.
How to Acclimate:
- Float the bag in your pond for 15 minutes to equalize the temperature.
- Open the bag and add 30% of your pond water.
- Float the bag for 15 more minutes.
- Open the bag and add 30% more water.
- Float the bag for 15 more minutes.
- Scoop your new Koi out of the bag with your hand or a net and add it to your pond.
- Discard any water in your bag in your yard or a drain pipe. Do not put the water in your pond, it can have stray parasites or bacterium in it!
The pond or quarantine tank that you are putting your Koi in should always be free of anything that could harm your Koi. This includes: toxins, parasites, bad bacteria, and harmful chemicals.