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Thread: What’s your chosen Koi food?
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23-02-2020, 05:54 PM #1
What’s your chosen Koi food?
I’m really interested to see what the Forums favoured Koi food is?
Personally I use Probites and Aquasource All Season with Propolis.
Thanks
Gary
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23-02-2020, 06:50 PM #2Freddyboy the legend
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Johnathan
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23-02-2020, 06:52 PM #3Hobby and business gone but when you’re hooked you’re hooked.
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23-02-2020, 06:58 PM #4
Great like stuffyrat on here put me on to it the fish love it
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23-02-2020, 07:24 PM #5
Same as AJ. OSW. Plus queni jap mix.
In the summer. And dry worm meal
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23-02-2020, 07:50 PM #6
I have used Quenis food be it Coppens for a number of years and never had much problems with it.
Q/k do a super fast delivery and the food is great,no dust and smells fresh so that is good for me.
The price is very good and I have tried a lot of their mixes but I found their growth very good for the price.John
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23-02-2020, 09:10 PM #7
will be getting OSW soon as the weather improves due to recommendations on here but currently feeding goat sinking and coppings floating stuff from exclusively koi when the look up for it on days like yesterday
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23-02-2020, 10:21 PM #8
6mm Medikoi wheatgerm with garlic and 3mm wheatgerm for the winter along with mussels, spring summer feed OSW, Mussels,
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24-02-2020, 03:43 PM #9
another one for Queni Koi, with the yearly event discount they work out very well cost wise.
i used their japan mix earlier, but switched to a 3:1 mix of ultimate koi and colour plus.
will probably add some wheatgerm once the beni has improved as i felt it a bit lacking in the japan mix.
pretty much the same as coppens, as a lot of other pellets are made by them.
though the JPD do come in better sizes with the 4mm imo....
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25-02-2020, 02:51 PM #10
I use the Nishikoi feed . Seems ok . Mid range on price and not much waste . I used medi-koi for a while , but seemed to produce more waste !
Its probably all way over-priced , though , as with most things koi related .
Its the same with pellets used in fishing - you can pay a crazy ammount for a kilo of pellets in a nice colourful bag from a tackle shop- or buy in bulk from a wholesale outlet at a fraction of the cost . Wonder if this is possible in the koi world ??Colin
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25-02-2020, 03:23 PM #11
The osw is just in a plain bag and I think it's a very good price tbf . I also have used medi koi and the waste was disgraceful never again
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25-02-2020, 05:25 PM #12
in my feeders i have japan mix and aqua source growth in the grow on, ive tried mixing a bit of queni's colour food but the only fish that eats it it the karashigoi i do feed vitalis as a, cant walk past fish without feeding them a small handful treat
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25-02-2020, 07:35 PM #13
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27-02-2020, 01:27 PM #14
Surprised to see issues with waste on medikoi I have used the probiotic last year and now their garlic winter food and have not experienced a waste issue, I thought it was quite low.... cheers Steve
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01-03-2020, 07:00 PM #15
I use Coastal koi's food, can feed heavy and it doesn't trash the water like others do
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01-03-2020, 07:25 PM #16
I think this is a very good topic to discuss, we hear of Coastals koi food or Queni kois etc but where do they stem from,is it just Coppens?
We all know Quenis is from Copppens but put their name on it and I cant knock it.
So, how many others?
Not that it is a great problem but dealers that put their name on a product that isnt theirs isnt really fair in my book as the prices vary so much.John
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01-03-2020, 07:42 PM #17
I could not agree more. IMHO decanting and relabelling other brands produce (seemingly with their consent...??) seems disingenuous to me.
Many experienced local hobbiests (and customers) believe most koi foods stem from Coppens but simply rebranding with no product change other than the label / tub seems ‘cheap’ and confusing to customers around what they are really buying... although as I am typing this I recall many other industries doing similar- electrical, champagne etc....
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01-03-2020, 08:12 PM #18
For the last 2 weeks I've been feeding Coppens Top Koi in the grow on vat.
With a tiny 380 litre volume It's quite a controlled environment so I can see the water yellows slightly faster than it did with Saki Growth.
But the koi enjoy it and have continued to grow, by at least 1 cm which is probably about the same I'd have expected from the Saki, only that Top Koi costs 75% less.
Top Koi will likely be the main growth food I buy going forwards, then will try OSW for non Summer Months once I've run out of Saki multi Season, Kusuri Multi Season and that rip off JPD Yamato.
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01-03-2020, 08:23 PM #19Hobby and business gone but when you’re hooked you’re hooked.
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01-03-2020, 08:26 PM #20
As I have already said this is a very important topic for our koi.
I dont know how suppliers get away with the " patent " on the food as the seller's call it their own!!!
As do Queni label their drums their own but they dont make them.!!!
Anyway we dont want to go down the argument route so keep it to koi food,sorry.John
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