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When you decide to keep Koi fish as pets, you must learn a few very basic and vital things about Koi care. Proper nutrition and water quality are the two deciding factors that you have to look at while thinking about Koi care. Koi fishes are hardy specimens of fish and they can live for long periods of time, sometimes for more than 200 years though the average life span is around 25 to 35 years.

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We all know that fish get their oxygen from water. They inhale water through their mouth and gill slits where the oxygen is absorbed through the gill fibers. Making sure about the quality of the water in your Koi pond therefore cannot be stressed enough. Japanese carp, like their ancestors the ordinary carp are a hardy species which can survive in relatively dirty water.

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