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Imported Japanese Bloodline Koi  Happy Koi has a proud history of importing top show quality and healthy attractive Koi from the top breeders in Japan |
gULP Filter Systems  The gULP filter system is a culmination of many years of experience with keeping Koi and managing filters... |
HIKARI KOI FISH FOOD  Hikari is Japan's premier Koi food manufacturer. Hikari delivers results with winners at the last 8 All Japan Koi Shows |
News FLash!We're doing a fund raiser for SharkLife from now until the Koi show (18 to 20 May 2012). SharkLife is an awesome charity doing awesome work for awesome animals - namely the sharks in our oceans who now more than ever need our help. Click here to see how you can win a big fat Prize Koi from us in return for your small donation.
KDR - Koi Done Right
Happy Koi is all about Koi. We're passionate about our fish and we hope that this passion reflects on our website that we work hard on to make as useful as possible for you. The idea behind Happy Koi is to teach you what you need to know about keeping Koi. We find that ignorance is what kills more Koi than anything else and whilst that may lead to increased fish sales for ourselves we're not about selling fish for the sake of making money on this basis. Rather, we're about what it takes to keep a high class quality collection of Nishikigoi. Whether these be ordinary pond fish or show stoppers doesn't matter one iota to us. The life of the animal is what we value and hence we take our hobby very seriously. We know of only one way to keep Koi. And that is the proper way. There are no shortcuts with us. If you want to cut corners, or do things half cocked, please find another Koi dealer. We are interested in what it takes to keep Koi in an environment conducive to THEIR long term well being and sadly this may not be in alignment with your short term budgetary constraints. That said, keeping Koi properly need not be a budget buster however. If you do things correctly it is surprising over the life of a Koi pond just what you can spend on it. Over a five year time frame the way we design and run our Koi ponds will cost you substantially less in running costs than "cheaper" systems. Over longer time frames the savings can become monstrous. Weo do without taking liberties and shortcuts. If there were any shortcuts available to Koi keepers we'd be using them ourselves. So the choice is yours. You either do Koi ponds properly, or YOU are the one who will suffer the consequences of having a pond that does not and will not ever work. A Koi pond is a permanent structure, and the only way to change it is with a jack hammer. Jack hammers mean wads of cash. Don't go there...
A Koi pond can cost the same as a new kitchen or a modest new car (or even in some cases a not so modest) new car! Why on earth would you spend that kind of money without doing your homework properly? Research is free and it will rewrad you in spades. For clarification, we don't build Koi ponds. We design them and the filtration that goes on them so that the two work seamlessly and properly. The result is a Koi pond conductive to housing world class quality collections of Koi in them. We can and do work with builders to ensure Koi pond success. YOU have to live with the Koi pond YOU have built, not us. Use us to ensure it is done right! You have only yourself to blame if you don't ask us our advice and end up with something that you thought was cheaper but turns out to be destined only for the rubbish dump because it was the wrong thing to begin with. Getting two or three quotes on how to build a Koi pond is a start, but getting pricing on two or three different filtration systems is far more sensible! Sand filters, swimming pool pumps and Koi sand for instance, as we have alluded to above, are OUT for a Koi pond. Technology has moved on since the 1970's believe it or not, as have Koi keeping practises. You cannot un-build a Koi pond and you can't retrofit it. Same goes for filtration - if you have the wrong thing you have to throw it away. It can't be changed or 'fixed'. It can only be chucked out - which is a polite way of saying you have wasted your money. This site will teach you everything that you need to know about koi fish ponds and keeping koi carp.Happy Koi is here to help you with as much information as possible on all aspects of fish keeping including:
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