| Your best bet for a fast , broad spectrum answer would be to contact either Mr. Kodomo at koiauction dot com or Fujio Oomo, who is a very popular tour guide, breeder and translator in Niigata.
I couldn't imagine salt levels being "kept" at that level (because it would be completely idiotic to maintain ANY salt level long term) but these guys will have the straight scoop for you..
If you think about it how the hell would a guy keep .6% in hundreds of thousands of gallons of tanks much less huge mud ponds ?
Where is this fellow who has been breeding and dealing since '68 ? The first USA guys I knew of were Paul Radice in Fl and Eldon Elias in Ca. They started in the mid to late seventies.
Are you in the UK ? Peter Waddington is the UK Koi grandfather and he also started in the late seventies.
I CAN tell you that many times when my clients have brought fish in from Kodamo's outfit that they were shipped in at .6% salinity, which is fine to reduce shipping stresses, so I duplicate that (or whatever the shipping level is) in the Q tanks and wean them off to 0.0 over a period of a few days.
Save the salt for your french fries.
Good question, though. |