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Quote: Originally Posted by dick benbow I remember an article with an interview with Oomo-san (Fujio) on food and how he suggests using smaller pelleted foods for better digestion. In the interview the author asks if this a new secret and fujio laughs it off and says all the breeders know to do this! I got to thinking about this and remembered all the places i nosed around at in japan and never once did i find large pellets that they were feeding! So the last 3-4 years I have fed exclusively medium as it seems to make sense.....just an observation.....

I heard this practice from more than one source, however my question is how does it impact your larger koi? About 2 summers ago I tried going with using med pellets only and my larger koi seem to struggle with it. They seem to work harder at getting enoungh food. Today I use a combinantion of 25% med sinking pellets, 25% med floating pellets, and 50% large floating pellets during the feeding season. If there are health benifits to using smaller pellets, maybe I should go back to using 100% med size pellets.