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How Long Do Koi Carp Live?
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A koi carp lives for about 60 years. Kois are omnivorous and prefer to feed on a wide range of foods such as worms, sweet corn, oranges, lettuce and cheese. There are also balanced and specialised koi foods that can be purchased form supermarkets.
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Koi Carp can live for more than 60 years if it is properly taken care of. They are coldwater fish that are kept as pets in fish tanks or ponds. The oldest Koi carp was known as Hanuko. She died at the ripe age of 226 years in 1977. The oldest goldfish was known as Goldie and he passed away after 45 years in 2005.
Koi are ornamental domesticated varieties belonging to the carp family, the carp is a large group of fish originally found in Central Europe and Asia. The average life span of koi in Japan is 70 years. Some have been known to live to 100 or more, such as the legendary Hanako, alleged to have lived for over 200 years.
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It depends entirely on the size of the pond, the condition of the water (eg temperature oxidation and how clean it is). The average life span of them is about 60 years old but Koi
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Developed from the common carp, Cyprinus Carpio. An ornamental fish that will revert to wild carp state after a few generations in the wild.
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The average life span of a Japanese koi fish is seventy years or so. Some koi have lived a long, long life of more than one hundred years.
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Cost?... well it would cost around about $5 and
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