Hey. What about starting to feed our fish sinking food. Don't get to see em quite as much, but they stay down deeper and therefore more out of harms way.
sinking food.
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by nature, koi are bottom and mid-water feeders. It's us as humans that want to see them and therefore, feed them floating food. It's actually not easy to find sinking pellets these days. Pretty much medicated food is the only one you tend to see, because sick fish tend to stay at the bottom.
oldmarine
Married 32 years
Despite the fact that I see my shubunkin's grazing on the algae growing inside the pond walls and floor. I have been feeding them four to six of those algae suppliment tablets that are for plecostimus. Between them and the trap door snails, they finish them in a short time.
Happy ponding,
Happy ponding,
stroppy
stroppy
peas sink and my fish love them ...much more than there fish food
koiguy1969
GIGGETY-GIGGETY!!
my guys will kill anything in the way of getting to peas when i give them. only a few make it to the bottom!!
I noticed that Microbe-Lift sells a sinking food--WebbsOnline has it. They advertise it for new fish or shy fish, but I'm going to buy some. My pond is deep, but I can see them fine these days and they sure are a lot safer down there. By feeding them on the surface we sort of train them to hang around where they are vulnerable don't we.
It's kind of weird but roughly 1 out of 5 pellets that I toss into the pond will sink.
I mix Hikari sinking wheat germ with my regular food.
This would explain why I notice that the koi seem to be slower than my comets in picking up that there is food on the surface. The comets always find it first.....and scatter it...
shanezam203
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koikeepr said:
When I feed my Koi they dont come up to the top, it is ok to just let it sink eventually?