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Old 22-05-2011, 02:07 PM   #1
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koi lifts up its head and mouth for floating pellets. If this continues for a long period of time, will it affects the body structure especially when the koi is in growing up stage.

Do you feed your kois with sinking pellets with the intention of achieving better body shape?

What do the Japanese say, any idea?

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Old 23-05-2011, 10:18 PM   #2
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But feeding doesn't occupy plenty of their time, so it won't have a great impact on its body structure. The rest of the time they spent on swimming and to make them swim instead of idling around , use a powerful power-head to create strong current in the water for them to swim against constantly. In this way, you don't have to worry your koi become obese.
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Old 24-05-2011, 12:04 PM   #3
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Bro Koiluver, i mix both floating and sinking pellets together . Personally I don't think it's a biggie if your pond is at least 3 to 4 feet deep. They will still have plenty of chance to exercise.

For my shallow pond of below 2 feet, I may eventually switch to 100% sinking pellets when my kois all exceed 50cm.
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Old 24-05-2011, 02:54 PM   #4
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But feeding doesn't occupy plenty of their time, so it won't have a great impact on its body structure.
Very good point.

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Bro Koiluver, i mix both floating and sinking pellets together . Personally I don't think it's a biggie if your pond is at least 3 to 4 feet deep. They will still have plenty of chance to exercise.

For my shallow pond of below 2 feet, I may eventually switch to 100% sinking pellets when my kois all exceed 50cm.
My water level is 2 feet. Agree with you, when they grow up to 50cm, floating pellets will be difficult for them.
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