Tuesday, July 14, 2009

When and how much food to feed your koi?

Temperature is a crucial factor in properly feeding your Koi.


Below is a guide to the appropriate water temperature, quantities and number of times you should feed your fish:





  • 82°F & above:
    • Feed once daily
  • 72°F - 82°F :
    • Feed in small, frequent quantities. Total amount of food feed should be no more than 3% of total body weight.Temperature is a crucial factor in properly feeding your Koi.Use larger quantities of ToMiGai Wheat Germ and Spirulina mixed with smaller quantities of ToMiGai Taberu to maximize growth and conformation
  • 65°F - 72°F :
    • Feed twice daily. Use larger quantities of ToMiGai Wheat Germ and Spirulina mixed with smaller quantities of ToMiGai Taberu to maximize growth and conformation
  • 55°F - 65°F :
    • Feed once daily. Use a higher dosage of ToMiGai Taberu mixed with smaller quantities of ToMiGai Wheat Germ and Spirulina.
  • 50°F - 55°F :
    • Feed ToMiGai Taberu no more than twice weekly
  • 50°F & below :
    • Stop Feeding

Feeding Tips

  • When Kois do not eat willingly, refrain from feeding.

  • It is recommended to feed your fish during the hours between daybreak and nightfall or when pond temperature is steady and at its peak.

  • If your fish have healthy appetites, the recommended amount of ToMiGai Koi Food at 69°F to 85°F is 2.5 percent to 3 percent of your Koi's body weight per day. This amount should be consumed within 2 to 4 feeding periods daily.

  • To enhance the color of your koi, you may increase the percentage of ToMiGai Spirulina used in each feeding period.

  • Koi food unconsummed within 5 minutes of feeding is recommended to be netted out of the Pond.

  • It is recommended that the optimum Koi pond conditions be achieved to increase Koi appetite.

  • It is advised that stored Koi food remain dry in package. Please ensure that one's hand or scooping cup remain dry when taking ToMiGai Koi Food from box.

ToMiGai Koi Food is packaged through the Nitrogen gas rush packaging method. Oxygen, which shows to be a primary cause of spoilage, is eliminated from the bag then pumped with Nitrogen to ensure that moisture levels are kept at a minimum. Nitrogen gas is proven to maintain quality and freshness of food for prolonged periods of time, and because contents are allowed to move freely within the bag, the integrity of the shape and form of ToMiGai Koi Food is maintained.

1 comment:

  1. I Love what you have here and wish to follow your Blog I am also working on a project along the line of Koi Food Research and believe you would find it a useful resource when it gets launched

    Koi Food Challenge

    Virtually Real World of Koi, if five Koi are given Ample room to grow and top quality water purification to live in will food prove to be a factor in there color and Size?

    Starting in January I will attempt to study the effects of various brands of Koi food, I will use the premium grade Koi Food of these top three brands of Koi food and as a control a store brand fish food formulated for Koi. For six month a select number of hand picked Nishikigoi will be kept in a controlled environment. Four tanks measuring as 200 Gallons per tank each housing 5 Choice Koi.

    The Vlog or Video Blog will be seen on most of the major Koi Chat groups and Youtube.com starting in September, the food will be voted on by consumers at the sites below and the home of the blog will be 1lkoi.blogspot.com

    http://1lkoi.blogspot.com/ and http://koishack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=18699
    See site for more detail
    Thank you for reading
    Juanell

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