How do you base your koi food buys?

[aquitori]

How do you base your koi food buys?

[HEADACHE6]

Hello friend , I have no idea what your question is

Cost ?
Value ?
Benefit ?

Sorry , Help us out .

[karipeters]

nutrition and cost. How do you do it??

[MCA]

previous experience....with product and retailer

For me this is easy....I am getting ready a few more 40lb bags of wheatgerm from Aqion.

[Russell Peters]

Quote: Originally Posted by MCA previous experience....with product and retailer For me this is easy....I am getting ready a few more 40lb bags of wheatgerm from Aqion.

I have heard Aqion is a good food but have not tried it yet.

[aquitori]

Quote: Originally Posted by HEADACHE6 Hello friend , I have no idea what your question is Cost ? Value ? Benefit ? Sorry , Help us out .

Well, how do you base your purchase, because so and so said so or do you buy because you like the way your fish eat it all up....

[Auntiesue]

My fish will eat just about anything I throw to them so I don't use that as a guide. I look at the ingrediants first, then price. I stay away from color enhancers.

[bekko]

I look at price first and then ingredients. I can't afford color enhancers. I give them a variety of foods. Over time, I've gotten the overall price down to 32-cents per pound. The fish are healthy.

-steve

[weesec01]

Well, I feed them colour, growth and wheat germ plus weekly organic vege. They eat and grow healthy. Now, I am planning to try for purely wheatgerm...is it enough nutritious?

[PapaBear]

Value.
All things being equal, if I can get the right ingredients I'll go for the least expensive. We use Ray Abell's Floating Wheat staple during late spring/summer. The Koi have thrived on it and growth has been very good. Right now we're tapering off on protein a bit with Mazuri Platinum Wheat Nuggets. (first time to try the Mazuri, but this one has no corn in it).
We may try a bag of Ray's high protein next year. Jesus Brito gave me a few lbs to try and they really liked it.