Here is a link to "A Beginner's Guide: Koi Fish and Koi Ponds" If the link doesn't work, copy and paste into your browser.

http://www.pondworld.com/a-beginner-s-guide-koi-fish-and-koi-ponds.aspx

Thank you Mrs. Anne Hughes of Monument Charter School.

It is with great excitement and anticipation that we announce a new project for the EIAA. The EIAA is in the initial conversation stages of partnering with the Eastern Iowa Pond Society to create a 4-H program that will teach aquarium keeping with an emphasis on goldfish and Koi. The goal in 2011 is to have a successful group of youth who can then have a fish show along with the other 4-H projects at the Linn County Fair.

Unless you are really, really committed to raising live foods, they will be just a part of your fishes' diet. Whatever you feed your fish. That is ok - fill them up in a couple of minutes. If possible feed several times a day.

Better a full fish fed commercial products, than a hungry fish fed some live food once in a while.

Variety in a fishes' diet is better than the same ole same old.
(A multi-colored salad is more nutritious than a honeymoon salad... ie lettuce alone.)

Worms and Daphnia especially contain lipids important in egg, nerve and protein production.

Excellent books to learn more about live foods for your tropical fish:

Live Foods for the Aquarium and Terrarium
by Willy Jocker and Gwynne Vevers (Paperback - Dec. 1973)
(J. also wrote Breeding Problem Fishes)

Culture Methods for Invertebrate Animals (Paperback)
by James George Needham (ed.) Dover paperback edition 1961 of a much earlier book

Encyclopedia of Live Foods
by Charles Masters (Hardcover - Aug 1986)

Plankton Culture Manual
by Frank H. Hoff (Paperback - Jul 1999)

Manual for the culture of selected freshwater invertebrates. Can.

• http://wfrc.usgs.gov/research/aquatic%20ecology/STSaiki6.htm
• http://www.grupoargentinodekillis.net/archivos/killis%20arg.html
• http://www.nothobranchius.org/
• http://www.cynolebias.org/public/index.html
• http://www.killifishnederland.nl/foto%27s%20ruudwildekamp.htm
• http://www.aka.org/fundulus/index.html#top
• http://www.biol.vt.edu/faculty/turner/rivmar/
• A big one on killie species & Research:  http://www.killi-data.org/
• Not really a killifish article: Joe,, an old friend, is something of a rabble rouser and the topic of aquarium water is especially dear to his heart.  His contention is that we are often being waltzed down the garden path by aquarium product companies and the more water conditioners we add, the worse off our fish will be.  He hasn't said it, but the phrase "we keep water, not fish" ight apply.  http://www.tbas1.com/TBASpdf/May2009.pdf 

Several of these websites are not in English, though some will have English versions.  Babelfish translation, available through www.altavista.com  or http://babelfish.yahoo.co./  makes the whole process a lot easier, except for the occasionally uproarious malapropism.     

• http://www.djramseyonline.com/tropfish/corespecies/coreindex.html
• http://www.bka.org.uk/BKA/species.php
• http://www.killi-data.org/pz-aplocheilichthyins.php
• http://www.itrainsfishes.net/content/
• http://killifishbrasil.com.br/killis/boletins.html
• http://www.epiplatys.de/
• http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2006f/zt01366p044.pdf
• http://www.nothobranchius.it/
• http://shene.killi.net/
• http://www.chromaphyosemion.de/

• http://www.alfanita.se/english.htm (Look at their fishroom)
• http:www.killifishnederland.nl/Nomenclature.htm
• http://www.aka.org/aka/modules/content/?id=2
• http://www.aka.org/aka/modules/wflinks/viewcat.php?list=A
• http://www.roloffia.com/
• http://www.killifish.f9.co.uk/Killifish/Killifish%20Website/Index.htm

Good News.....Coralville Bay Fish Store is open again.  Ed Fisher has re-opened CORALVILLE BAY in a new location.  It has been tough since the flood of last year.  Ed has the store open for sale of Dry Goods and the fish room is slowly being stocked.   New Location:  102 S. First Avenue in Coralville, IA.  (Just south of the Walgreens which is on the corner of Hwy 6 and First Avenue).  Signs are up in the windows.Permanent sign is up too. Hours are: Mon-Fri  11-7,  Sat. 10-5, Sun. 12-5.