| Having helped a couple of Dealers do this, plus seen what another dealer does, it was very interesting for me to see how different they dealt with their incoming Koi. In the UK the Koi are often bagged for 24-30 hours and they sometimes look pretty dead. Have actually never seen one die, they all come around!
Dealer 1 - Floated bags straight out of the boxes into the Dealers ponds. After perhaps 30-minutes, each bag was emptied into a Koi bowl and each Koi lifted up and into the pond. I once helped with 92 boxes of Koi with this dealer, now that was an interesting evening.
Dealer 2 - Bags emptied straight into a bowl and each Koi lifted straight into pond. No mucking about here, this dealer wanted the Koi into good clean water very quickly.
Dealer 3 - Emptied the Koi and bag water into large Koi bowls, then added some pond water to acclimatise the Koi. Each bowl was heavily aerated and more water was added until the Koi fully came round, then they were lifted into the pond.
So which way is the best, 1, 2, or 3? Or does it really matter?????
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