Giovanni Carlo

Quick Answer Koi can be trained to eat from your hand with consistency, not tricks: feed from the same spot each time, stay calm and predictable, and gradually bring the food closer to your hand over repeated visits. It genuinely takes patience — some keepers report a full taming process spanning several years — but

Quick Answer Koromo (also called Goromo) is a white koi with a Kohaku-style red pattern, distinguished by blue or black edging on the red scales specifically — not the whole body — giving a delicate net-like texture within the pattern itself. It originated in the 1950s from crossing a Kohaku with a Narumi Asagi, and

Quick Answer Start a koi fish drawing with a curved “gesture line” capturing the fish’s swimming motion before adding any shapes — this single step is what most beginner tutorials skip, and it’s the difference between a stiff-looking koi and one that reads as actually swimming. From there, build the body around that line, add

Quick Answer The two most common koi anesthetics are MS-222 (tricaine) at 50-100 mg/L for anesthesia, and clove oil (eugenol) at 25-50 mg/L. MS-222 must be buffered with sodium bicarbonate — used unbuffered, it acidifies the water and can damage a koi’s skin and eyes. For minor handling, gently spinning the fish in a bowl