broxandval 
Hi
All
After just buying a tub of Shingoi pellets at our sections auction , I sat down and thought you've bought many different foodstuffs for your Koi over the years and you have your favorites but there must be others out there that have not been tried,
My question is what do you all use and what the results are, maybe we could come out of this with the ultimate super mix for our koi.
Does anyone also know where I can buy Billion?, a food directed at the koi's liver, I say this as we haven't come across it these last few years. We used to get it from Justin of Aquarius Koi.
rgrds
broxandval
dave 6450
broxandval
hi
last season i used medikoi growth, they took a littel time to get use to it but soon got the tast for it and gobbled it all up, water quality never changed am-0 nitrite-0, even when i got a bit carried away feeding them.has any one tryed ea one yet?.
regds dave 6450
Pro Gro Max, from local dealer & health expert Jonathon Atkin. The reason I'm feeding this is the fish can;t get enough of it - and that's the only criteria I use for judging fish foods on!
Hi
Guy's
At the moment our lucky lot are getting the Shingoi tub with the three mix's, Medicarp, Kusuri Silkworm Pellets and last but not least Tetra Koi Exellance.
We are also trialing a new produce by a German Company which is a vitamin suppliment by JBL , in essence it is a multivitiamins with Honey and is called KoiVitol.We try not to be slaves to any one food stuff as you always find another one out there that does a different job than the last or has a differnt additive such as Garlic etc etc.
We are still on the lookout for the Koi Billion so if anyone out there knows home to get a steady supply for this we would be more than grateful if you let us know.
It seem's the EU put an embargo on many of the Japanese food stuffs we used to use due to something or other being banned in the EU that was in the food, really sad when you think of it some jobsworth making a point and for what?
rgrds
broxandval
Hi
Dave 6450
We are feeding our Koi a number of things at the moment Shingoi tripple mix, Kusuri Supersilk 20, Medikoi, Medicarp, Tera Exellance (both ranges), and JBL Koidelicat silkworm Pupea, plus a special dealers mix, I could go into everything else we feed food wise i:e frozen and live but it would be to long a list.
The foods are fed in rotation and between them do a very good job.....
rgrds
broxandval
A seasonal contribuition for a dietary treat:
We have both a pond for our Koi and a nature pond, as the frogs and toads eat all the slugs in our garden and I love to watch the Dragon Flies. If you get too many frog or toads laying you'll have too many tadpoles in a small pond to turn into adults - they just remain tadpoles and then die over winter.
Solution: drop a small net of tadpoles every few days into your koi pond, the fish will go mad trying to catch them. Not sure on the ethics, but it's natural for koi to eat live food, and allows a small nature pond to give a good return of baby frogs without other 'harsher' ways of thining out the stock and also gives your Koi a different high protien treat.
I'm only a beginner, but my Koi love the introduction of live food, and wait at the surface when they see the net, and as previously said - if the fish like it then it can't be wrong.
Bernie.
... that many toads are protected species, and that amphibians of all types have been decimated world wide by a fungal infection.
However, despite oodles of frogs we very rarely get tadpoles in the koi pond now as most of it does not reach past the frogspawn stage - so the koi obviously love it!
We do always try and save some in the wildlife pond but this depends on us getting to the spawn first!