to Ingrid - what brand of food?

"none of my koi go after my lilies ... but then I feed high quality koi food
after Jo
Ann told me her koi stopped ripping up everything after she started feeding
the high
quality stuff too.
the exception is... if a piece of that food ends up on top of a lily leaf my
koi
breach to get that piece of food they can smell it right thru the leaf.
the other thing is I use river rock over the lily roots with pea gravel
between.
Ingrid"

Ingrid,
Thanks for the tip. The rock by itself doesn't do the trick. I've tried
that. It must be the combination of the two measures. What brand of food
do you use, and who can I order it from? I have two large bf koi that we
are not going to move out with the other koi, because we can't bear to risk
injury to one of them, who is our pride - and because they would add a
significant number of fish inches to the new pond. The pond they are in now
is really big, and we want to add plants to help with the algae problem next
spring. We have repeatedly tried to shade the big pond, but nothing
effective looks nice right in the front of the house. So, we decided to
build the new one, just for koi, in a spot that would be easy to build a
roof over. If we could discourage those two from eating the lilies, it
would be really great, besides the obvious benefit to the fish of having
good quality food.