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What Are You Feeding & Where are You Buying Your Koi Food This Season?
"JB" writes:
I visited a couple of web sites pricing food for this season (Aqua Mart for Hakari Staple & Western Pond for Sho Koi) and noticed a jump in prices. Between the two, Western Pond was offering 10 lbs of Sho Koi for $56.98, including shipping costs. This seems about $7.00 higher than last year. What are you feeding? And, where are you buying it? I order Rangen 25 lb bags direct from the factory. The last number I used was 208 543 6421 If I recall correctly, it was about $30 plus $10 shipping. I still want to try catfish or trout chow someday. Does anyone know if one floats better than the other? I would guess that catfish sinks and trout floats... |
What Are You Feeding & Where are You Buying Your Koi Food This Season?
"Andrew Burgess" wrote in message ... I still want to try catfish or trout chow someday. Does anyone know if one floats better than the other? I would guess that catfish sinks and trout floats... ================= BOTH of them float. -- Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995... Aquariums since 1952 My Pond & Aquarium Pages: http://tinyurl.com/9do58 rec.pond's FAQ are at: http://www.geocities.com/justinm090/faq.html ~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o |
What Are You Feeding & Where are You Buying Your Koi Food This Season?
"Koi-Lo" wrote in message
... BOTH of them float. For a while at least... LOL! "They all float.. they all float down here......" ....Pennywise the Clown.... ;) -- Gareee© (Gary Tabar Jr.) |
What Are You Feeding & Where are You Buying Your Koi Food This Season?
the problem with corn based foods is the same problem found with that dog food that
was killing dogs earlier this year... contamination with fungus that causes toxins. food for trout and catfish is formulated to first be as cheap as possible and then put weight on the fish as fast as possible so they can be harvested as fast as possible. this food is not formulated for the long term health of pet fish. corn is implicated in liver disease in fish, perhaps rancidity and fungal toxins are the underlying cause. a good rule of thumb is feed what the breeders feed. Ingrid Andrew Burgess wrote: "JB" writes: I visited a couple of web sites pricing food for this season (Aqua Mart for Hakari Staple & Western Pond for Sho Koi) and noticed a jump in prices. Between the two, Western Pond was offering 10 lbs of Sho Koi for $56.98, including shipping costs. This seems about $7.00 higher than last year. What are you feeding? And, where are you buying it? I order Rangen 25 lb bags direct from the factory. The last number I used was 208 543 6421 If I recall correctly, it was about $30 plus $10 shipping. I still want to try catfish or trout chow someday. Does anyone know if one floats better than the other? I would guess that catfish sinks and trout floats... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List at http://weloveteaching.com/puregold/ sign up: http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?...s=Group+lookup www.drsolo.com Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I receive no compensation for running the Puregold list or Puregold website. I do not run nor receive any money from the ads at the old Puregold site. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Zone 5 next to Lake Michigan |
What Are You Feeding & Where are You Buying Your Koi Food This Season?
"Gareee©" wrote in message ... "Koi-Lo" wrote in message ... BOTH of them float. For a while at least... LOL! "They all float.. they all float down here......" ...Pennywise the Clown.... ;) ======================= Hey, I read that book. :-) -- Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995... Aquariums since 1952 My Pond & Aquarium Pages: http://tinyurl.com/9do58 rec.pond's FAQ are at: http://www.geocities.com/justinm090/faq.html ~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o |
What Are You Feeding & Where are You Buying Your Koi Food This Season?
Yet another uneducated unresearched guess, made by someone who thinks
they know it all...........Catfish and trout chow can be had in sinking or floating types.........The feed mill here as well as the local farm and feed supply stores sell it in sinking and floating types....... -- \\\|/// ( @ @ ) -----------oOOo(_)oOOo--------------- oooO ---------( )----Oooo---------------- \ ( ( ) \_) ) / (_/ The original frugal ponder ! Koi-ahoi mates.... |
What Are You Feeding & Where are You Buying Your Koi Food This Season?
stick with what you got. altho........ GF LOVE brine shrimp and especially
daphnia. Ingrid Altum wrote: wrote: Rangen. http://makeashorterlink.com/?U10B215EC look for fish food with water type proteins, like krill or fish meal in the first couple ingredients. and take a good sniff... if it smells rancid for God's sake dont feed it to the fish. High quality food should be frozen and only take out what is needed for the week. Ingrid I have a small pond with three comets, a ryukin, and some white clouds. There's no way I could use up 25 lb. of Rangen food! I'm using Tetra Color flakes at the moment (first ingredient is fish meal), bought fresh in small batches. I've always gotten good results with a combination of Tetra foods and live foods for tropicals, but is there a better mass market food for goldfish? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List at http://weloveteaching.com/puregold/ sign up: http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?...s=Group+lookup www.drsolo.com Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I receive no compensation for running the Puregold list or Puregold website. I do not run nor receive any money from the ads at the old Puregold site. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Zone 5 next to Lake Michigan |
What Are You Feeding & Where are You Buying Your Koi Food This Season?
wrote in message ... the problem with corn based foods is the same problem found with that dog food that was killing dogs earlier this year... contamination with fungus that causes toxins. food for trout and catfish is formulated to first be as cheap as possible and then put weight on the fish as fast as possible so they can be harvested as fast as possible. this food is not formulated for the long term health of pet fish. corn is implicated in liver disease in fish, perhaps rancidity and fungal toxins are the underlying cause. a good rule of thumb is feed what the breeders feed. Ingrid ============== Any food can *go rancid* if it's not kept cool and dry, not just catfish and trout chow. My koi and goldfish have been on these feeds at least 7 years and breed like crazy. All are healthy and active with excellent color. No $8 to $10 a lb food fed or needed. -- Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995... Aquariums since 1952 My Pond & Aquarium Pages: http://tinyurl.com/9do58 rec.pond's FAQ are at: http://www.geocities.com/justinm090/faq.html ~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o |
What Are You Feeding & Where are You Buying Your Koi Food This Season?
wrote in message
the problem with corn based foods is the same problem found with that dog food that was killing dogs earlier this year... contamination with fungus that causes toxins. food for trout and catfish is formulated to first be as cheap as possible and then put weight on the fish as fast as possible so they can be harvested as fast as possible. this food is not formulated for the long term health of pet fish. corn is implicated in liver disease in fish, perhaps rancidity and fungal toxins are the underlying cause. a good rule of thumb is feed what the breeders feed. Ingrid ============== Any food can *go rancid* if it's not kept cool and dry, not just catfish and trout chow. My koi and goldfish have been on these feeds at least 7 years and breed like crazy. All are healthy and active with excellent color. No $8 to $10 a lb food fed or needed. That's true, rancidity, and that's great, if those foods work for you and you're happy with them. If I had as many fish as say Roy or Carol feeds, I'd be looking at Rangen, a koi food that is still fairly reasonable priced, jmo. As tis, many of us, similar to Altuma, have fewer fish, so we don't need to buy in bulk, and it would/could be hazardous to our fishes health if we did (rancidity). Ingrid did mention something about keep foods frozen, and that's one of the reasons I like ShoKoi, it is freezable. Some brands mention not to freeze, it was explained to me something about the oils separating??? I'm not quite sure, so read the label. And just an aside, if you go to a backyard fish store and they try to sell you X-koi food in an old ice cream container, take a pass on it. ;o) ~ jan -------------- See my ponds and filter design: www.jjspond.us ~Keep 'em Wet!~ Tri-Cities WA Zone 7a To e-mail see website |
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