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...the breeders needed to keep koi in total darkness because they had very little understanding and even fewer resources to keep koi correctly during the early years. keeping koi in total darkness was the band-aid they had to use to overcome their shortcomings....
And jasPR..that "snow" covering the ice thing...it ain't a normal thing... the normal thing is for winds to blow the snow into covered areas...and the pics I see from japan in the Winter show the ponds to not have snow on them more often than not. And I just watched march of the Penguins....even inside the Antarctica circle under the ice (and snow?) there was all the light needed for penguins to hunt, fish to try and escape and cameras to capture it all.
and yeah you agree with me now..Japan is so far to the north that the angle of incidence for sunlight in the Winter season is so extreme that very little light enters the water Compared to Summer. And therefore koi would NATURALLY do the stasis thing..but then how do they survive in nature? Let's see better nutrition, less population density, cleaner water (the list goes on) than when stuck in a brush covered pit in TOTAL darkness, high densities, no filtration or oxygenation...
Nowadays Japanese Breeders are much better at keeping their koi and require fewer band aids good thing they have Far-infared rays ...cutting edge technology. then Maybe it is the areation, filtration, and moderate temperatures, as well as going into Winter in Better shape.
I'm glad we got that cleared up... FINALLY
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