Reviews on Dr Foster Smith Staple Koi Food
Best Cheap Koi Food?
I'm new here and this is my get-go mail. I am certain there are tons of threads here on koi foods, but can't seem to find a section that pertains to kinds of nutrient. The just way I can observe is to blazon in names of food in the search pick. Can someone delight tell me where I tin can locate the section on all types of food talk? Basically, I currently feed my koi's Tetra Sticks and Microbe-Lift Legacy Diverseness. 50%/50%. Tetra is fiddling on the expensive side, and Microbe Elevator has a decent price point if buying 40lbs. I kow probably Microbe Lift is better quality, merely the koi's LOVE the Tetra Sticks...feeding frenzy...is it maybe because it softens quickly and the koi's just gulped these sticks downward? and the pellets dont softens that quick so these koi's tend to eat irksome on pellets like Microbe Lift? Please assist....so stressed...LOL
Well, I think you are currently feeding about the least expensive nutrient on the market if your using the Tetra sticks.
We don't have the same selection of foods here that in that location are in the United states, merely Tetra products here are a lot less expensive than annihilation else.
I don't feed them personally, I prefer using stuff with college protein like Dainichi and HiSilk products mixed with freeze dried krill, repast worms, earth worms and plancton. Not cheap, but my guys only go to consume for a maximum of 6 months a twelvemonth.Cindy
I found that my local wal mart has a 5 pound pocketbook for 10$. Thats pretty cheap to me!P
It'southward $12.95 at my Wal-Mart.
Originally Posted past prestongohlke
I constitute that my local wal mart has a five pound pocketbook for ten$. Thats pretty cheap to me!
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I like Blackwater Creek Max for expert food for fair price - merely y'all have to check effectually because some dealers prices vary a lot - some nearly iii times more than others.
Dale Ann
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buying quality food that translates to health in a pet is like buying oates,If you want adept make clean high quality oates you must pay a fair price for them. If However you chose to purchase oates that accept already gone thru the horse, they come up a little cheaper. In way of explaination if you check an ingredients list and run across plume repast, this is a style to up the advertising per centum of protein for marketing, yet adding nil for the Koi.Toll should not exist the over riding objective.
Translation, I don't know anyone who has pets and buys the cheapest food that doesn't somewhen pay the price via thier pets. Quality ingredients are plush. many of the aforementioned products are used by humans which go on the price up, less availability, more than price. Aye, it'south truthful you tin can pay extra for a "name' brand. Your job is to really understand what can and what cannot be compromised.I was glad to run across Carl bumped upward an olde thread from 2 years back on food by chris neeves. You lot need to read information technology. then maybe the next time y'all post you'll ask how can i get a high quality food for less. And then we tin discuss grouping buys and resealing.
Information technology's why when discussing homo health...You are what y'all eat.... I hope my comments have NOT offended anyone but information technology's a topic i feel strongly about. It works in all my hobbies.....the health of your subject field is job #1.
Another topic is properly storing and using the quality food you buy. Buying the best and leaving information technology for months in a rolled up bag....well yous might as well only purchase the cheaper stuff every bit the results will be pretty comparable! A resealable container (tupperware) and stored in nighttime cool identify is indicated. many manufacturers accept resealable bags and they need to be stored properly as well.
sorry for the long comments, if i didn't care I wouldn't have gone to this extent.
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We usually use one of several "budget" Koi foods on a regular basis so we can give honest opinions to our customers based on experience. Over the past several months we have used several brands including Ziegler, Tetra, Emperor'south Choice, and Ultra Residual. No complaints about any of these brands. Honestly, our Koi tend to swallow annihilation. None of these brands compared to "higher end" foods nosotros conduct, however, including EA I and Dainichi. Of course, these brands are bit more than expensive, but you can definitely come across the freshness in these foods when y'all open up the purse. We also have several customers who swear by Hikari. Most of our customers tend to mix a high end nutrient with a budget food to maximize value. Koi food is just like everything else in this crazy hobby, you go what you pay for...
Concluding edited by JoesPonds.com; 07-25-2009 at 02:18 PM.
OSI 168 an 11 lb pocketbook is forty dollars with shipping.
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With skillful koi health in mind, value, and availability, tin can someone that knows suggest a skillful line of food for koi? Non looking for short cuts. Just skillful value. That does not interpret into cheap.Thank you.
Jay
I have tried several brands at all different price ranges. If you shop around, you'll find a good food at a good toll. Check with your gild for group buys. My guild bought a couple pallets of Dainichi and got some great deals on them. Many vendors on here also offer gratis shipping on the larger bags. Discover some ponders close to you and buy a big pocketbook, carve up it up, packet it/store it properly and you should see the difference.Mike
zeigler makes a good quality nutrient, toll is good $32 for 42 lb, try their silver, bronze, koi grower and shrimp grower, mix it upwards. Shrimp grower is $27 for a 55 lb, koi love it, information technology is as well a sinking food, just do not use that only, volition have pink fish. Tin become at
www.4fishstuff.com
what about Azoo Growth? any good? where can I buy this?
Another good food at a reasonable toll is Legacy from Microb Lift. They accept several variations and a mix. I used to feed the mix and buy in the five gallon buckets. It'south not equally inexpensive as some mentioned, and maybe non the value of BWC, just notwithstanding a good food worth using.Brad
where?
OSI 168 an 11 lb pocketbook is xl dollars with aircraft.
Just got my bag of Hai Feng Quick Growth, and all I have to tell y'all is, wow, my koi gulp every single pellet, the only thing the koi forgot was to belch/burp...I have used Microbe Lift Variety mix (proficient toll point if yous buy the bulk 44 lbs), but not all pellets floated. It was frustrating, I would say 25% sank to the bottom once thrown in the water, and my koi just picked at it..took them forever to consume all the pellets.
I have besides feed my koi Tetra Swimming sticks. They beloved this stuff, but I knew information technology wasn't every bit skillful as the other foods everyone feeds here at koiphen.
So I ordered some Hai Feng Quick Growth from Inland Koi, very fast ship, took 2 days till I received my bag. Feed to my koi earlier in the day, and they Dear information technology....hopefully, information technology will be kind to my water clarity/quality....nosotros shall meet.....
Micky
-2,500 gal above ground round
-way over stocked
-crappy Savio LingPonds filter
-and so so submersible 4,200gph pump
-inexpensive 36watt UV
-honey all my koi though!
-learning how to day-trade the market
Hey Micky, where in Las Vegas are you. We sell the EA food and we accept the Winston food in a 19lb container. Winston private labels for a lot of different companies and we merely buy information technology direct. We're upward in the Northwest.
Why haven't you joined the Las Vegas Koi Club all the same?
I'm in South Summerlin......Why I havent join the LV Koi Club....dont really know, simply a novice with koi...I kept koi for almost a year in a 700 gallon poly stock tank....now i just finished edifice my 2,500 gal above ground....
Hey Micky, where in Las Vegas are you. We sell the EA food and nosotros have the Winston food in a 19lb container. Winston private labels for a lot of different companies and we just purchase it direct. We're upwards in the Northwest.
Why haven't you joined the Las Vegas Koi Guild nevertheless?Im not really a novice though, I have kept large aquariums for many years....I have now a 125 gallon aquarium full of fatty goldies....its a Seaclear System II 125 gallon....my water is crystal clear, aye crystal, and all it relies on the bio wet/dry filter, thats information technology.....no pre filter, no activated charcoal, no nothing..just plain one-time bio balls in the wet/dry...
so now i am moving towards the pond thing...and its not as easy now for me...lots of other elements exterior....
How much do you sell the 19lb Winston?
Micky
-2,500 gal to a higher place basis round
-mode over stocked
-crappy Savio LingPonds filter
-so so submersible 4,200gph pump
-cheap 36watt UV
-beloved all my koi though!
-learning how to day-merchandise the marketplace
This is a nautical chart I put together with some of the more than popular foods fed here. It shows the poly peptide content and other stuff and shows approximate toll per lb.Koi Food
Brand Poly peptide Crude Fatty Crude fiber Moisture Ash Calcium PPP
Dainichi Growth Plus 44.0% 5.0% v.0% 9.0% ix.00% ix.0% $9.82
Hi Silk five.5 lb $49.00 43.8% 8.9% ten.0% 6.iii% 7.threescore% $8.91
Dainichi Premium v.five lb $61.99 42.0% 4.0% 4.0% nine.0% 0.00% 2.0% $11.27
Hai Feng Alif 11 lb $49.95 42.0% four.0% 10.0% 0.00% $4.54Saki Hikari Growth 4.4 lb $49.99 twoscore.0% nine.0% ane.0% ten.0% 0.00% 0.0% $xi.36
Foster & Smith Super 5 lb $25.59 40.0% 6.0% 2.0% 10.0% seven.00% 0.0% $5.12
Blackwater Gold eight.8 lbs 61.99 40.0% 10.0% 4.0% $7.04Dainichi All Flavor 5.5 lb $38.39 38.0% 6.0% 4.0% 9.0% 0.00% 2.0% $6.98
Impact Sho Koi four lb $29.80 38.0% 6.0% ii.six% 10.0% 4.35% 1.0% $7.45Hikari staple iv.4 lb $19.99 35.0% 3.0% 5.0% 10.0% 0.00% 0.0% $4.54
Osi All Flavor 11 lb $46.95 34.0% iv.0% 4.0% ix.0% 0.00% 0.0% $5.45
Chuck
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