Shinsuke koi product English Summary

Shinsuke koi product BRAND
BRAND CONCEPT
Shinsuke koi product was established to develop products to enhance the environmentthat Japanese Nishikigoi are kept in.
Our concept is “Making koi more beautiful with the ideal surrounding.”
Nishikigoi quality can be affected by their environment therefore we explore nature andthe original beauty of Nishikigoi, to promote more natural water.
I have visited many koi shows as a judge and have also had the opportunity to deal withthe koi business world, and in my opinion Nishikigoi will always be more beautiful if thewater quality is the same as nature.
First, I thought about the factors involved in causing Koi to lose colour and brightness,
which are ultraviolet rays, bad water, chemical medicines, minerals, and the conditionof the koi.
Today we live with much stress and koi are the same. Therefore we need to consider
reducing the stress of koi in order to keep them in good condition.
Our ideal environment for Nishikigoi is the water of the mud pond. To make water in a
concrete pond the same quality as in the mud pond, we believe the following are required
as minimum rules to produce ideal water for koi:
1. Ammonia and Nitrite levels close to zero.
2. Levels of Nitrite always below 100mg/l.
3. Clear water to allow penetration of sunshine and ultraviolet.
4. Consistent pH levels.
5. Sufficient mineral levels within the water.
In these conditions we can breed high quality koi that have beautiful bright skin andalso grow well.

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When considering how to provide the optimum environment for koi, the Shinsuke koi
product. recommends “The Bio film theory”.
What is Bio film?
Bio film is formed by microbes and examples of this are dental plaque, the slime on astone in the liver, the gel film in a week-old vase of flowers, etc.
We can find many variations of Bio film in nature, where there is water and a source ofbacteria.
It is true to say that almost all bacteria on the planet (over 99%) lives on Bio film, rather
than floating in the air, and sewage treatment plants depend on Bio film for bacteria tomake water clean.
Shinsuke koi product. has developed products using Bio film theory to provide a highquality environment for making koi more beautiful, and these are:
1. Bacto Power(Filter sand)
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Micro Mineral

New generation breeding products

Easily turn a garden pond into Mudwater of a nature pond.
Contains more than 40 kinds of minerals and enzymes.
(Contains proteolytic enzymes, dephosphorus enzymes and otherenzymes)
The action of proteolytic enzymes reduces organic matter in ashort time.
But be sure to use Bacto Power and Bio Sponge.
The action of the dephosphorizing enzyme suppresses the growthof algae.
●Grandwater＋Micro Mineral=a nature pond enviorment●4years experimented and verified(Many national product competition top prizes)●Excellent Ginrin and sumi effect!!
●Excellent color and gloss!!
●Growth promot!!

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Cells need minerals and enzymes.

【How to use】
Please sprinkle directly on the pond (do not use with wet hands)
Ideally use twice a month.
If you experience any problems with using it, discontinue use.
Depending on the water used (grandwater or tap water) andregion, Since water quality is different.Please adjust the amountused.
Nishikigoi’s sumi is easy to come out, so please try to use it while
watching the situation with the frequency in use and the amountused.
We recommend using a combination of fast-acting Micro Mineraland slow-acting Mineral plus.
Japanese Nishikigoi producers are also used together.
【Points to note】
When using the product heat up in response of water, so please
do not handle with bare hands.
In case of contact with your eyes, wash with clean running water.
It is not food.
Keep in a cool and dark place away from the high temperature &humidity.
Please use up as soon as possible after opening.
The amount of quantity : 200t/11kg (55g / 1 ton)

Made in Japan

Product Developer: Yoshihiro Yamamura

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Bacto Power(Filter Sand)※We are planning to start introducing [Bacto Power] to our product range.
Bacto power is the one which upgrades already well-received Filter Sand.
Bacto Power(Filter Sand) is revolutionary and keep
pH stable.
It does this by taking out Nitrogen when there is
Oxygen in the water.
Normally organic matter is decomposed as following;
Organic matter* → Protein →Ammonia → Nitrite → Nitrate(*microorganism andphytoplankton corpses, koi
food, koi mucosa etc)
Bacto Power(Filter sand) includes
facultative anaerobic bacteria which reduce nitrate to nitrite and change nitrite tonitrogen gas.
The activity rate of Bacto Power(Filter Sand) goes up after 3-5 days from start ofuse, dependent on water quality and temperature.
If the water quality is initially poor, then the activity rate will drop until the water
improves. If this occurs we recommend that the same amount of Filter Sand(Bacto Power
）is added after one or two weeks.
Our experiments show that both of ammonia and nitrite start to decrease a week
after adding Bacto Power(Filter Sand).
Algae levels also decrease, which is better looking and better for koi.
There are over ten kinds of Aerobic bacterium in Bacto Power(Filter Sand);
Heterotrophic bacteria:

Decomposing organic matter into inorganic matter.
They decompose protein, carbohydrate and fat into inorganic
matter.

Autotrophic bacteria:

Decomposing inorganic matter into smaller matter.
They decompose ammonia into nitrous acid, nitrate, andnitrogen gas.

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Bacterial work
As the bacteria act they generate energy, as well as making vitamins and antibiotics(effective into mould) as by-products.
Some of the bacteria within Bacto Power(Filter Sand) also produce an enzyme whichforms structures to promote bacterial growth. In addition this is used by other living
things, helping the formation of an effective ecosystem.
Bacto Power(Filter sand) includes anaerobic bacteria, (which can act on nitrogen
removal without oxygen being present), facultative anaerobic bacteria (which can act onnitrogen removal with oxygen), aerobic bacteria, and another 10 kinds of bacteria. Eachbacteria is compounded from 10,000 to 10,000,000 pcs /g.

Amount used of Bacto Power(Filter Sand)
AmountWater amount

10kg

1,000 ton

1kg

100 ton

500g

50 ton

100g

10 ton10g

1 ton

Shower Bacto Power(Filter Sand) on filter material in water directly.
Bacto Power(Filter sand) is a natural mineral, and you may see white ‘sand’ inwater; this is not a problem.
 Add air into filter for bacteria activation.
 Add Bacto Power(Filter Sand) into filter once a month periodically.
(It is more effective for bacteria to put Bacto Power(Filter Sand)
There is a difference between the natural mud pond and the enclosed house pond. In thenatural mud pond there are less stocking levels and the natural filter system of mud
and sand.
In the house pond stocking levels are higher, causing the filters to have to work harder.
The activity of the bacteria is the most important area for keeping good water in closed
ponds.
House ponds are also prone to sudden changing of water quality, which may harm thefilter bacteria.
So it is very important for keeping good water to add 5g/ton of Bacto Power(Filter Sand)

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once a month.

All medicine breaks pond quality.
Medicines used to prevent koi from diseases affects all bacteria, including those in
the filter, which means that after use the water quality becomes worse and the fish
have more diseases.
“ Bacteria” are key for keeping good water.

Classification
Aerobic bacteria

Variety
Strictly aerobic bacteria

ActionNeed oxygen for growth.
Higher density of oxygen
than air is harmful for them.

Slight aerobic bacteria

Lower density of oxygen
than

air

is

enoughforgrowth. They cannot grow inhigh density of oxygen.
Anaerobic bacteria

Strictly anaerobic bacteria

They cannot use oxygen to
grow, and oxygen is harmful
to them.

Facultative anaerobic bacteria

They can use oxygen, but
grow without oxygen.

Resistant anaerobic bacteria

They cannot use oxygen to
grow,

but oxygen is notharmful to them.

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Bio Sponge
We are pleased to announce the best filter
material for decomposing organic matter –the Bio Sponge.
Other filters are able to clear away any waste
and excrement, but cannot remove otherorganic material, such as mucous membranes,
koi urine, zooplankton carcass, phytoplankton
and other microscopic organisms, as well asprotein from food. Only bacteria can remove
all of these.
The important feature of Bio Sponge, which
separates it from other filter material, is its ability to form BIO FILM, and it is within
this BIO FILM that these important bacteria are present.
The material of BIO SPONGE is a particular sponge-like material, specifically invented
and designed for forming BIO FILM. As such, Bio Sponge has a high retention ratio forbacteria, which is hard to reduce, even when located under water or by exposure toultraviolet rays.
In my opinion, the most important factor for breeding high quality koi is water quality,
and the best combination to control water quality is Bio Sponge and Bacto Power(Filter Sand).
When considering previous practices, filter mat and brushes have been used for years
in the koi-breeding world, however they are only efficient at collecting rubbish/waste,
which can then turn into sludge. Therefore, it is not too much to say that the
combination of filter mat and brushes, is a way of producing sludge in a filter.
Sludge is bad organic matter and is a main cause for deterioration of water quality as
it causes the pH to drop. Also, sludge produces germs and increases the risk of disease
and illness in the koi pond.
So in summary, filter mat and brushes can contain and collect waste, but cannot
clean water.

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It’s important to point out that there are two types of filtration. First there is thephysical filtration,that means rubbish is collected, this may be by filter mat andbrushes. Second, there is the biological filter, which is where the waste is resolved into
inorganic matter. We can say that filtration only works efficiently with both ofthem. There are many filtration systems where the biological element is not as
efficient as it should be. It is not to say the filtration is without bacteria, but we caneasily differentiate between bacteria working well and not well. One example of this iswhere there is white froth on the surface of pond; this means the bacteria are notworking as well as they need to be, and this could cause diseases for koi.

Outbreak of diseases
Sudden environmental changes, and keeping koi in poor water, are amongst the reasonsfor koi to fall subject to diseases.
They say that Aeromonas is an infectious disease, but is it true?
In my opinion, Aeromonas and Cytophaga columnaris are normal bacterial flora in a koi
pond. It is only if the balance of the koi pond ecosystem is upset, or koi have a weakened
immune system, that Aeromonas and Cytophaga columnaris can run riot.
Many outbreaks of diseases happen when there are multiple stressors, all at once, in thekoi pond; with the result that the baby koi, and those with little strength, end up dying.
The causes of common diseases are:
1. The water quality is not good for koi.
2. Wrong keeping by immature koi keeper.
3. A sudden change of water quality (PH shock), for example, moving from mud pond to
concrete pond.
4. Damage to the koi’s mucus, for example, caused by nets.
The ways of preventing these common causes are:1, Keeping good quality water for koi, with active bacteria.
2, Keeping koi in enough space, with a good filter system, and less water changes, (foras long as possible).
Ammonia and Nitrite are poison for koi, so let’s change places for a moment - koi withhuman. How would these conditions affect humans if we were kept in a dirty pond withAmmonia and Nitrite?
I give you this story for explanation.

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I visited Alaska with my four friends by car. The temperature was -20 degrees and if we
opened a window, we would be frozen immediately. The driver and his friend were sitting
up front, and both were heavy smokers, and they abruptly started to smoke once the carleft for Alaska. Soon the air in the car turned smoky and the two of us sitting on thebackseat felt stuffy, and tried to open a window, but the window was frozen and would
not move. Over time, the car became the same as the smoking room at Tokyo station or
airport. In such a situation, we had to stop regularly, causing the journey to take much
longer. As you can see, in this situation, it would be easy for us to get sick.
We regards to clean and good water for koi, there is the current compulsion to have drum
filters on our ponds. Most definitely the water looks clean, but from the koi’s point ofview, “ What choking water!”
The water looks very good quality, however, in fact there is a lot of Ammonia and Nitrite
in the water, the same as smoke in the car.
Koi will want to run away from these ponds right now, and they are losing their appetite.
Koi cannot live without bacteria. We cannot breed koi without bacteria.
HOW TO USE Bio Sponge
No need to wash.
Use at a ratio of one bag of Bio Sponge for one ton of water.
Bio Sponge includes many kinds of natural minerals, which dissolve into the water, little
by little.
HOW TO SET UP Bio Sponge
Place the Bio Sponge into a Resin net; I advise using atartan net with a big pattern. Where a small pattern net
is used, the water flow will be slowed, causing the Bio
Sponge to be less effective
Fix the nets of Bio Sponge onto a frame, and make theframe fit to your filter length and width.
You can put one or two stages of BIO SPONGE into eachResin net.
We call “ONE UNIT” like this picture.

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Fix Bio sponge tight.

We put two stages of Bio Sponge in this picture.

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Mineral plus

Mineral Plus is our new product, developed on
our Shinsuke koi product concept, “Making koi

more beautiful with the ideal surrounding.”
It is based on the question of how to bring out akoi’s potential beauty as much as possible?
The answer is that it depends on water quality- we need the water in the pond to be the same
quality as mud pond water.
With this in mind, we succeeded at making“Japanese mud pond water” with a special
material composed of Japanese minerals.
This is Mineral plus.
Koi are moved from house ponds into mud ponds from the beginning of May each year.
Why are they moved?
1, To promote koi growth in such a vast surrounding.
2, Avoiding heating too much during summer.
3, Keeping the koi in water that includes many minerals so that the koi skin will bebright.
There are other reasons but we aimed at those above and started to develop new products
based on them.
We believe that koi feed on zooplankton and phytoplankton, and that plankton naturally
contains minerals.
One of the strong points of keeping koi in mud ponds is that mud pond water includes
plankton, which has plenty of minerals, making it the best environment for koi.
What’s more, the minerals from the mud itself, are also very important for koi.
On the basis of the above, we aimed to add minerals into pond water, to make pond water
the same quality as mud pond water.

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We experimented with our Mineral plus at five koi farms and results were excellent.
After four to six weeks the SUMI on both Showa and Shiro varieties improved.
This was even though we developed Mineral plus not for SUMI, but for it to produce thebest environment by improving water quality.
In fact, the skin of many of the koi turned out to be brighter and polished once the koi
breeder added Mineral Plus into their ponds.
We would love for you to use our Mineral plus for making your koi more beautiful.
I give you one story.
1993, Cairns in Australia, I received a lecture on coral and learned the importance ofminerals at coral school. I found that both humans and fish can live by virtue of
harmonious mineral.
The lecturer told us that they used artificial seawater for coral culture.
Seawater is comprised of salt, calcium, magnesium, potassium, iron, molybdenum, toname just a few components. That is to say, seawater is made of salt, and a lot of minerals.
When even just one of them is lacking from seawater, then the coral cannot grow well.
Humans and koi were born from seawater (all livings have roots in the sea) and we needto know that minerals are very important for all.
After all, why are organic vegetables better for us? Once you consider this, you begin toobserve that we need minerals to breed beautiful koi.
From the lecture I could understand how humans and all living beings were born fromthe sea, and I learned that once we unbalance the minerals, we would get sick easily andfind it hard to keep healthy.
Today we see many advertisements on TV for beer and drinking water which emphasize“MINERAL”. I also heard at the lecture that amniotic fluid in mothers and the fluid in
our tears, is the same as seawater quality.
From this experience I developed Mineral.
As you know, after koi harvest, the koi are more beautiful and bright! So why is it difficult
to make koi beautiful and bright in concrete ponds, the same as koi from mud ponds? It
is due to the amount and varieties of minerals present in the water.
Fish have an ultimobranchial body that secretes calcitonin. They say the internal organs
can take in oxygen directly.
We consider this and produced a product that uses an organic acid that occurs in concrete
pond for ionizing minerals that are easy for koi to assimilate. Koi cannot make minerals
in their body.

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The minerals work on mitochondria, improving the immune strength of the koi. This
helps koi to stay healthy and prevents any diseases.
Ionized minerals are taken into the koi from mouth and gill and pulsed blood. Blood
including these minerals is sent throughout the body. Each cell has a mouth and ventand cells take minerals and oxygen into the mouth and discharge waste from vent. If a
koi has a lack of minerals, it would be weak and get sick easily. Once there are enoughminerals in water, the koi’s mucus cell and pigment cell would be active, resulting inbright and beautiful colors. The koi are able to keep in this better condition for longer.
Our new product acts very much like a medicine.
Sometimes koi might have a poorly balanced diet, affecting the color of the skin. Mineralplus includes minerals that make melanocytes active.
Mineral plus also contains a special element from the mud, and it is our top secret, very
special element.
We are proud of our revolutionary Mineral plus.
The powder mineral of Mineral plus is dissolved by an organic acid that occurs in pond
water.
An organic acid occurs when waste decomposes into an inorganic substance. Once anorganic acid occurs, the pH falls. There is no pond water that is increasing pH naturally.
Many people put oyster shells into the pond or filter to prevent a pH drop. Once we usethem, the pH goes up but the water hardness go up too. They make the water hard. Hardwater tears mucous membrane from a koi’s skin and the koi’s skin is worn to rags. The
best materials to maintain pH levels are Bio Sponge and Bacto Power(Filter Sand)!!
Direction
1: please put 5-10g of Mineral plus into 1 ton of water, once every one or two weeks.
Once the temperature start to warm, algae will grow and this will make the waterclean and you can use less Mineral plus.
2: Add a little water and make a ball with the Mineral plus. Please put the ball into thefinal stage of the filter.
3: Please put some Mineral plus into a bag and hang it in the final filter and shake itonce a week.
Note: If you have something wrong in your pond, please stop using Mineral plus straightaway.
Water quality is different in each area so please adjust the quantities as needed.

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Progress of pH with Bacto Power(Filter Sand) and Bio Sponge
We carried out an experiment on the pH levels of the water at a koi
farm, before and after using Bacto Power(Filter Sand) and Bio Sponge.
From 7th to 9th January 2013, we placed Bio Sponge and put Bacto
Power(Filter Sand) in the Up and Down filters, immediately after washedfilter mat.
In the past we had used calcium carbonate in the pond when the pH dropped,
but calcium ions enter the water, and the water hardness increases, which is
not good for koi skin.
Oyster shell is the same as calcium carbonate.
After using Bacto Power(Filter Sand) and Bio Sponge, the pH of the waterremained stable. As a result the koi had very good appetites and their skinbecame bright and high quality.
On seeing this, the koi farmer was impressed by Bacto Power(Filter Sand)
and Bio Sponge, and they now add Bacto Power(Filter Sand) every 2 or 4
weeks.
Following data is 5 points of houseImage of the mineral ingredient content
included in each water
MineralMineralMineral

H₂O

H₂O

H₂O

Tap Water

Groundwater

Mud Pond

水道水

地下水

野池の水

Which environment will the carp choose?
Good environment
There are few disease-causing germs
Bacteria are active lively
PH stability
The growth is early, too,and the complexion is good, too

Because bacteria break down all organic matter by only anappropriate number being active normally,
there is very little sludge. Therefore, there is little number of
disease-causing germs (the density of disease-causing germs islight)
Because I break down all organic matter, pH is stable.
PH is the most stable in its numerical value between 6.8-7.2.
When bacteria are active much normally, I produce vitamins, an
enzyme.
I reduce disease-causing germs (position collecting of bacteria anddisease-causing germs.) Which can hold superiority?）
It is a premise to install a biosponge using Bacto Power(Filter
Sand)

Bad environment
There are many disease-causing germs
The activity of bacteria is weak
PH instability(named ⇒ pH 4 and the crab which are easy to beoxidized)

Appearance is low in the bubble that is white on the surface of
the water because there is less number of bacteria than organic
matter.
Because there is very much quantity of the sludge, disease-causing
germs spread (as for the sludge the manufacturing facility of
disease-causing germs)
You should increase oxygen content of water to let you do theactivity of bacteria, but must choose the most suitable filtrationmaterials that bacteria are easy to propagate.
When pH falls, the activity of bacteria becomes dull, and many
bacteria perish (including pH 4)
Most disease-causing germs live even if they use sterilization.