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Quote: Originally Posted by BabyKoi Swordfish!

Quote: Originally Posted by BabyKoi That must be a tategoi, to peaking at 50 - 60cm within first year. Incredible! Simply fantastic! Tell me what breeder's bloodline lives in your koi! My koi in US, kept for over 5 years, yet to get close to 50cm. What superb brood, with wonderrful skills in grooming ! Genes tell the whole story, almost! I would try! On tofu that is. I am tempted to hurry off to Walmart Store now to grab some! Interesting. How do you encourage your Matsunosuke to eat tofu? What incentives? Can you enlighten on why a lot of feaces? Indigestion? Gut cleansing? I will do just that, twice a week supplement! Thank you Swordfish. Madison, BK.

Madison,

Good grow doesn't neccessary mean its a tategoi.

We can feed our koi high protein and other nutritional foods all throughout the year with our warm climate over here.

Tofu is not a magical food. I use it only to supplement calcium for my koi.
Though tofu is easily digested I do not see a lot of faeces. Estimated about 10% or less of the overall tofu given is passed out. The soft type have 3X more calcium content than the hard counterpart.

A little honey coated on tofu is enough for my sanke to take the bite.

Currently I have 1 Dainichi showa,1 Sakai kohaku,1 Matsunosuke sanke,1 Momotaro kohaku bought more than a month ago,1 Chagoi and Hariwake of unknown breeder. The 1st 3 koi are out in my dealer's mud pond for 6 months. They'll be back in another 3 months times. The Momotaro kohaku will be out to the growth pond in another 2 months.

Didn't get a good pic. of my Momotaro kohaku without over-exposure due to bright sun as I have no time to bowl it. It is 9 months old and 45cm when I measure it last month before going to the Qtank.


SF