This is true, and I on occasson do buy higer priced actual koi foods,
but thats usually when its on closeout and I can get a decent proice,
but its still used for the same purpose, get em up and close to give
em a checkout. Their main staple is in that pond somnewhere and its up
to them to find it. They do not get enough of any kind of food from a
human handout to make any kind of significant difference tothem and
certainly not enough to get used to it and turntheir noses up at
natural or other foods.

Heck once water melons come in here my ponds are also fed melon chunks
as well and more to a degree than any other type food. only because I
canget just about all the melons I want for free.

Its easy pretty much to tell what food gets fed to what. The
manufactuers make it easy for those that can't read or do not
comprehend. Bags of food with a kitty cat on them gets fed to feline
animals, pics of puppys and dogs, gets fed to canines, bird pics means
the food is for birds.....

Now I have a dilema....I have a 97% hybrid wolf and have not found any
bags with a wolf on them. Can I feed it koi food or should I go with
cat or dog or ferret food?


On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 02:12:47 GMT, ~ janj wrote:

On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 17:45:49 -0600, Tristan
wrote:

Ah so I did, but I also keep my koin na natural mud pond which is full
of natural stuff koi are meant to eat as well not kept in a liner or
preform pond, so ther eis a difference I do belive and I think the
others here will agree with me.
I feed catfish food, no trout as its not available here, but a 50
pound bag will last me a year or more as i use it only to throw a
small a maount out to entice the fish to come u p so I can have a look
see as to how they are all doing. Its called responsive feeding., Its
not meant to be nutritional in any way. It was a method recomeded to
me by the fisheries and biology department of The U of Florida. Do
you know of a better way? The entire object is get em up to look at,
not feed em enough to make em dependant or to give em any real
nourishment. Cheerios and other cereals was also on that list of
suggested responsive food stuff.

And I have no problem what so ever with that. I have no problem with Carol
feeding her fish whatever she wants or can afford. But, imho, people
shouldn't feed low quality food (especially non-fish food) to fish in a
liner pond with little to no natural food sources.

Now to add something to this (and I probably shouldn't) but I have seen it
happen that fish fed high-corn foods (taste like candy) will put their nose
at some of the higher quality feeds. Sometimes one has to buy small
containers of high quality food and see which the fish will like before
investing in the eco-bag-size. ~ jan



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