Author: Anmarie Barrie
Publisher: TFH Publications
ISBN: 9780866225281
Category : Carp
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The best available introduction to the world of colorful and fascinating Japanese carp. Lavishly illustrated with over 150 full-color photographs and drawings, this volume touches all the bases of koi care and maintenance, not to mention detailed information on the garden pond.
Author: Gregory Skomal
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 0470368071
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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At last, a book to kick-off your hobby as a Koi-keeper. From how to build a Koi pond to choosing breeding stock, Koi: An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Fish, provides the answers. You'll learn how to choose from the many pond materials on the market, how big your pond needs to be and where to place it in your yard. You'll also learn where to buy your fish, how to select healthy specimens and how to feed them to keep them in top form. Koi: An Owner's Guide To A Happy Healthy Fish gets you started in identifying the many different types of Koi and acquaints you with the many Japanese terms you will need to understand when purchasing fish. Sidebars filled with interesting facts and exceptional color photos make this book easy to read and a visual delight.
Author: Steve Hickling
Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing
ISBN: 9780764154485
Category : Fish ponds
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In Japan, breeding koi--a colorful and beautiful member of the carp family--has occupied a position between hobby and art form for more than two centuries. This stunningly illustrated book, compiled by a team of koi experts, shows and tells aquarium enthusiasts virtually everything they need to know about this fascinating activity. Koi are hardy fish, relatively large in size, and the most practical way to keep them is in an outdoor pond. Combining text with illustrations, an important section of the book explains the requirements of a garden pond for koi, showing the filtration system and pointing out how it functions. Most of the book concentrates on koi themselves, focusing on a brief history of koi, advice on buying koi, the fish's physiology, health care, feeding, breeding koi, showing koi, and joining koi clubs. An 80-page section tells all about koi variations, and features color photos of more than 100 varieties. Illustrated two-page spreads review each variety's history, and show both their more desirable and less desirable color markings. Here is a beautifully designed and illustrated volume that emphasizes the special satisfactions of keeping and breeding koi. Approximately 450 color photos and illustrations.
Author: Michugo Tamadachi
Publisher: TFH Publications
ISBN: 9780866224406
Category : Carp
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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During the 1990 Nishikigoi (Koi) Show held in Tokyo, a group of experts convened to discuss the knowledge which they considered vital for beginners and advanced koi-lovers. Dr. Tamadachi was there and made copious notes about the fish in the show. The notes resulted in this book.
Author: Sheldon Harnick
Publisher: Beaufort Books
ISBN: 9780825308413
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 45
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Koi are unusually beautiful creatures. Perhaps because of their unusual beauty, koi have inspired a variety of legends. The recurrent theme in these legends is that koi, because of their endurance and perseverance, have become symbolic of overcoming adversity and fulfilling one's destiny. In one of the more celebrated versions of this legend, koi are rewarded for their endurance and perseverance by being transformed into dragon fish. In their book KOI, Margery and Sheldon Harnick have created their own version of this legend in photographs and verses. In their version, koi are rewarded for a reason other than endurance and perseverance. Though the years, the gods have noted how much pleasure men and women have derived simply from observing the prismatic beauty of the koi. For this gift to mankind, the gods decided to transform the most beautiful koi into majestic and powerful dragons. Margery Harnick's photographs not only show this transformation taking place but also capture the remarkable beauty of these creatures in ways that most people have never seen. (Additional photographs by Matt Harnick portray the gods and the dragons.) And since koi are Asian in origin, Sheldon Harnick has chosen to deliver the narrative in the form of haiku verses. The union of photographs and verses makes a charming and artistically satisfying combination.
Author: Bernice Brewster
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781770855199
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Water quality and filtration.
Author: Peter Waddington
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780952638117
Category : Koi
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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History of the development and breeding of nishikigoi, unusually-coloured carp (or koi), and the spread of the activity throughout the world, with information on keeping koi.
Author: Devon Anthony
Publisher: Diamond Dmt Pub
ISBN: 9780983763802
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Book Description
A Japanese Koi fish learns patience and faith while living in a pet store awaiting someone special to buy her and take her home.
Author: Herbert R. Axelrod
Publisher: TFH Publications
ISBN: 9780876660928
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Author: George C. Blasiola
Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing
ISBN: 9780764128523
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 95
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Book Description
In Japan, breeding Koi - a colorful fish in the carp family - is an art form. This book speaks to its increased popularity in America with information on maintaining a garden pond and proper care of the fish. Heavily illustrated with vivid color photos and instructive line art, B.E.S. Complete Pet Owner's Manuals show and inform pet owners regarding proper care of dogs, cats, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, small caged animals - virtually every creature that is kept as a pet. The books give advice on purchasing and otherwise acquiring a pet, feeding it nutritiously, keeping it in good health, and where applicable, grooming and training it. Each book in this large series is individually written by a specialist, and though the information is authoritative, the text is clear and straightforward, easy for every pet owner to understand.
