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Some tidbits discovered during recent research:

--Fish can feel with their pectoral fins.

-Fish, including Koi and Goldfish, will eat their eggs and young only when they are hungry.

-Underfed fish, including Koi and Goldfish, will experience more stress-related issues than those that are well-fed.
 

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How would one know if their fish are properly nourished? Most of us are wary of the dreaded over feeding. I'd heard that by looking where the body meets the tail it should be plump and full.
 
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Some tidbits discovered during recent research:

--Fish can feel with their pectoral fins.

-Fish, including Koi and Goldfish, will eat their eggs and young only when they are hungry.

-Underfed fish, including Koi and Goldfish, will experience more stress-related issues than those that are well-fed.
Add to that did you know that larger koi can puncture two plasic bags in thickness with the leading ray of their Dorsal fin so when transporting them always make sure you take at least three or four new bags .


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How would one know if their fish are properly nourished? Most of us are wary of the dreaded over feeding. I'd heard that by looking where the body meets the tail it should be plump and full.

Read the article "To Feed or Not To Feed" in this Forum's Article section. As for plumpness at the base of the tail, if true, it would likely only apply to adult fish and not fry or juveniles.
 
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Koi are like their wild cousins they learn from each attempt to catch them , that is why we koi keepers lead them to the surface first with a 22"[ the trick is not to touch them with the net .all the way to the top], then keep them against the surface with the flat net until we deploy a koi sock net to scoop the koi up with before depositing them into the plastic transport bags
This way the only time they are touched by a net that scoops them up and down a long blackk tube to the bag
Try to catch them any other way and you'll be chasing them around your pond causing them untold stress and the trick is to avoid it

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