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Paulino88, I have not used sakai pellets for a long time now. I rotate my pellets and they usually include Izeki (colour and growth), and Hikari (growth). What I always add is silkworm pupae given together with each feed. From my personal observation, even with our high growth rate, we don't need to give colour food all the time. I have experimented giving only non-colour enhancing food for months and their colour still held well.
Mike, strange that you asked regarding my water parameters. I am one of the lazy few who normally do not monitor them. Now that I am in the midst of planning a new experiment on BS/BH I have started monitoring them to get a baseline. Over the past two weeks the following are the average readings:
1. Temperature 28-29 degC
2. ORP 320
3. TDS 85
4. pH 6.7
5. DO 8 all round. I emphasise a lot on aeration. It has been posted in another thread that kois tend to accumulate near water splashes (eg return from BS/BH). I suspect aeration in these ponds are not optimal to start with. I have water splashing into 4 corners of my pond and my kois are everywhere. My rationale is that if my DO is near full saturation and evenly distributed there is no reason to accumulate at this returns. And the effect of good aeration on the kois appetite needs no further explanation.
Cheers, dtbh
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