"~ jan" wrote in message
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5% is high for fish facing a 4 month fast? Now I see why people's koi
die
during the winter fast. They have no reserves to survive the winter fast.
The brand I use Nutri Source Farm Pond Diet. Why are you suddenly so
concerned about what I feed since you've known this information for 8
years
and never said a word before?
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I looked up the brand and couldn't find anything with the numbers you
mentioned, but if the ingredients are digestible by the koi gut, as you
know, you're fine.

It's manufactured by Feed Solutions of St. Lewis Mo.

That's not to say those using koi foods are suffering deaths. My babies
did
quite well on koi food and I've had no trouble selling them, not that that
is my goal. Most likely it is the brand they were using. You didn't
mention
the koi food you used that you had problems with, why all prudent now?
Seems you'd want to get that information out if it produced poor results.

I don't care if the information gets out. People are going to believe and
buy what they want no matter what they read here. We live in a sue-crazy
society and the two trolls would quickly make sure the company who made the
food would get my post. Uh, no thanks. ;-) Also, I can't know if the
results would have been different under different climactic conditions
(steady 75F year round), different stains of koi (more expensive or cheaper
fish) or koi of different ages (the article mentioned 3 year olds). I gave
you my experience with the expensive food and for some reason you refuse to
accept it. Had I gotten at least the SAME results as I got with the cheaper
foods I would have said so.

Yet someone else can
recommend people illegally shoot and kill protected birds and you say
nothing. Koi are not endangered, many of our birds are.

If you want to start a new thread about this, do so, but don't pull this
topic off on to something unrelated. ~ jan

It's useless to start a new thread as those left here don't seem to care
about people being advised to illegally kill herons. Those who do care are
too intimidated to speak up least they face the same abuse (personal
attacks, slander) I get daily, mainly from a certain regular here.
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