[Russell Peters]

Quote: Originally Posted by carolyn swanson Would quarantine necessarily make any difference to a new bacteria? I'm thinking that they carry bacteria around with them no matter what we do. This may be tha a good reason to buy a new fish every 3-4 months to introduce any new bacteria to the pond and keep the imune systems of the resident fish up to snuff. (This theory has no basis in scientific fact) What do you think of this theory, Russell?????

Yes Carolyn, I do agree with you, but my thought would be that you introduce a fish from your pond to the fish in quarantine and see what happens before you add the new Koi to your pond and risk total destruction because of new bacteria. This would lower your risk to only one Koi.

Russ