Koi Fish Care – Information On Feeding Koi Fish & Fish Foods | Koi Fish Care Information
Feeding your koi fish is one of the most important parts in taking care of koi. It is also the most enjoying part as well. Feeding your koi is a time where you get to relax and watch your beautiful fish as they begin to come up to feed. This is also the best time that you can care for your koi as you will be able to see any signs of diseases, sickness or injury.
Koi fish can become quite tame and eventually koi will actually feed right out of your hand allowing you to observe your koi more closely. What people can do to accomplish this is you can tap on a rock before feeding your koi fish pond.
Your koi fish will eventually associate the tapping with feeding and they will come right up to you. They will feed right out of your hand. The only downfall to this is they may become to tame and vulnerable to koi predators.
When feeding koi, koi enthusiast need to feed the best nutrition possible and a variety of foods to keep the bright colours and excellent growth. Koi fish care isn’t all just about aquarium maintenance or koi pond maintenance.
Caring for you koi comes by what fish food we feed them as well. There are fish foods on the market that contain essential nutrients that actually bring out the colours in your koi and nutrients that keep them healthy as well. Also there is high growth koi food you can buy that accelerates their growth. You also need to make sure you feed your fish pond the proper food as well.
In spring feeding, summer feeding and fall feeding you need to feed your koi different foods to keep them healthy. Different seasons your koi’s digestive system works differently and I will talk more later about what to feed your koi fish in different seasons.
