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Re: currents in a mud pond

Posted by Steve Childers on 10/29/2009, 5:55 pm, in reply to "Re: currents in a mud pond"
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Posted by JR on 10/29/2009, 3:42 pm, in reply to "Re: currents in a mud pond"
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Right, over feeding not lack of exercise. Koi are four main blocks of red muscle and continous white muscle. They move by employing one or the other or both groups of muscles ( white or red). This happens every time they move and the distance they need to more. And also the speed and sense of urgency they move with. But they move to find food and escape danger, stress or bad water conditions.
A koi has more difficultly shedding excess calories as the body is designed to store first, dump second unless the fish is conditioned to and overfed protein and then the rules get reversed.
And never under estimate the 'feed back' effect of dumping excess nutrient back into the water and the immediate sulking behavior ( non-movement of koi in a closed system).

So I'm not against current in the least ( although I seen it over done in several systems). I'm just saying we are have the 'peduncle wag the koi' at this point in our thinking. JR

Soooo, do koi eat more (uncontrolled) in a mud pond (caloric intake) than in a currentless recirc pond? I would bet YES. Where does that go then? I would suggest (once again) for an equal caloric intake on comparitive koi in a mud pond verses backyard recirc system that the back yard recirc system would yield fat koi unless the caloric intake can be used for something other than fat....shall we say perhaps, muscle and bone structure?

Kinda like two kids who eat the same amount or a well balanced diet. One goes out and plays sports everyday and the other sits and plays video games (WIii not included LOL)and watches TV. Wanna bet which one's body will develope better?

Steve

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