{"id":717,"date":"2011-09-02T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/?p=717"},"modified":"2011-09-02T19:06:54","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T19:06:54","slug":"the-color-migrations-of-koi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/2011\/09\/the-color-migrations-of-koi\/","title":{"rendered":"The color migrations of Koi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After clearing up the green water this week I noticed my koi had different colors than previously. The asagi looked a paler blue while his reds have diminished. The kujaku&#8217;s reds and oranges have spread, but his blacks have almost disappeared. The Sanke&#8217;s blacks have intensified. The yamabuki ogon is a nice light yellow. The red on my Showa is very intense, but his black is diminishing. The gin rin butterfly looks a little pink rather than sparkly white, but his red\/orange tones are well developed. <\/p>\n<p>I know I changed from a color enhancing food to a growth food a few weeks ago so I&#8217;m sure that has some impact. Growth and age would obviously be another. So I did a little digging and found <a href=\"http:\/\/wonderfulkoi.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/color-and-pattern-of-koi.html\" title=\"color-and-pattern-of-koi\" target=\"_blank\">this artcle on the color and pattern of koi<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are the primary reducers\/enhancers of koi color:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Breeding and Age &#8211; good breeding better colors with age<\/li>\n<li>Water Quality &#038; Conditions, Algae, pollutants &#8211; bad water poorer colors<\/li>\n<li>Diet &#8211; Color enhancing food brings out the colors<\/li>\n<li>Temperature &#8211; warmer temperatures diminish color<\/li>\n<li>Sunlight exposure &#8211; can intensify color<\/li>\n<li>Salt and medications &#8211; may reduce color vibrance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After clearing up the green water this week I noticed my koi had different colors than previously. The asagi looked a paler blue while his reds have diminished. The kujaku&#8217;s reds and oranges have spread, but his blacks have almost &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/2011\/09\/the-color-migrations-of-koi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,8,7,9],"tags":[18,47,34],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fish-health-and-medications","category-resources","category-troubleshooting","category-wandering","tag-koi","tag-koi-color","tag-koi-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}