Archive for February, 2009

Koi fish food

Posted in Fish food on February 28th, 2009 by admin – 2 Comments

There are two types of koi fish food: sinking and floating. Kois eat at the bottom, therefore sinking koi food is better suited. Koi food is available in different sizes. Try to offer them food which is small enough for the smallest fishes in the pond.

Koi fish food contains proteins, fats, carbohydres, minerals and vitamins. These ingridients are essential for a good growth and health. Additionally the food can contain special ingredients for improving there color quality., for example some special algae.

Kois also can eat certain live food, they like cockles, worms or prawns. Special live koi food is imported from Japan during all the year, this is very costly, but it can help to improve the health and color of the koi fishes. Sometimes brown bread is also used for feeding kois, but white bread can harm the fishes, so don’t feed it. Also avoid vegetables with hard outer casing, kois cannot digest this type of food. Try to feed a good balance of quality or homemade koi fish food for a maximum of health and beauty.

Goldfish food

Posted in Fish food on February 28th, 2009 by admin – 3 Comments

Goldfish are omnivores, this means they can eat almost anything, vegetables or meat. Goldfish need less protein than other common aquarium fishes, so they need other  food. The retailers sell different types of goldfish food.

Goldfish flakes have another composition than the standard fish flakes because of the different nutrition feed of goldfish. Goldfish food pellets have the same ingredients as flakes, but are compressed in pellet form. Frozen food brings the benefits of life food, daphnia, tubifex worms, brine shrimp and other frozen goldfish food are available. Some professionals feed live food to their fishes, although it can be dangerous if done incorrectly. Bacterias or other deseases could be the consequence.

Some household or other homemade food can also be given to goldfishes, like lettuce or cooked peas, just shred it and give it to your fishes. Their are some receips on the internet for special gel goldfish food. These are very easy to digest. This will give your goldfish another bit of diet variety.