Feeding tosai Daphia....

[aquitori]

I bought some small Showas last week and I thought I would try a Daphia diet on them for a couple of months plus pellets...so we will see...anybody else try feeding this to their tosai?

[dick benbow]

then switch over to the high protein pellets. No fair feeding blood worms!

[Steve Nguyen]

what's the heck is Daphia? looked up online dictionary but didn't find the word.

Steve

[jnorth]

Tony misspelled it. Its daphnia

Daphnia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Ian_&_Terri]

They are a great food while they last....

Second photo shows daphnia with 1 week old koi fry.

Kind Regards,
Terri

[Steve Nguyen]

umm..... yummilicious!!!

[bekko]

You mean frozen? Live daphnia are too precious to feed tosai. If feeding frozen food, I would go with the bloodworms. About the same price as frozen daphnia, better nutrition, less waste.

-s

[koikichitoo]

They look like sea monkeys to me!

[JasPR]

Too small for tosai. The fat content is great but lots of other more size appropriate foods are available. Try blackworms. There's a major distributor out your way that will ship them once a week to you overnight. You buy them by the pound!
Every morning I go out and 'harvest' live food from some set ups I have on the property ( large wooded area). Lots of mosquito larva and daphnia. Great for my tropicals ( I can get a sailfin mollie up to an inch in 3-4 weeks) but not even practical for my goldfish. The real benefit of daphina is that each one is protein and fat but it is also filled with algae. Talk about a balanced diet! But after the koi si out of the Larval stage and is a full blown fry, the daphnia is probably only practical for another 30-60 days at best? JR

[gregbickal]

I dont know anyone feeding daphnia