| this is funny as i have a bowl of cooked rice in my feed freezer box and i just leave it sit there. i guess i was just bein lazy, i will use it up one day.
i sometimes give them watermelon and lettuce. ill feed them just about anything if someone gives it to me. if they eat it im ok with it but ususally its pellets day in day out.
i have been feeding my breeder koi a silver perch diet for years. a four or six mill pellet.
i think it was 35 percent protein but i belive that last time we bought feed the feed place had upped the protein level to 45 plus percent to make some of the silver perch farmers happy and sell to the barramundi farmers also under the same production run. so now it seems they no longer make the lower protein food.
i ran out and started feeding them a bag of horse pellets, i got it free of a guy that runs a horse feed company, it would cost me 17 bucks a bag by the bag from the shops and i buy the other stuff by the tonne to get it at 35 odd dollars australian per bag. the horse feed was 17 percent protein.
now i bought some proper koi feed but it is like 50 bucks plus a 25 kilo bag and i was paying 36 for the silver perch diet.
i think i have read before that high protein is bad and even 35% protein is considered to be high but my fish were ok.
i mihgt consider feeding more horse pellet in the winter but i do notice my koi roe up over my winter and are ready for spring breeding so im not sure yet.
can anyone comment on if it would be a bad idea to keep feeding them 45 percent protein? it is not fish meal based just farm crops and i think lamb or meat meals. i do know that when it was 35 percent protein it was comong form crops and meat meals also and i never had any problems with them for yearsm then i read once that lamb and meat meal is not good for them but i see no problems?? |