Fish food made from high quality raw materials fed in the correct quantities results in less fish waste products

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Concepts:

food, fish, koi, digestibility, ash, water quality, waste, raw materials, filter, cost, pond, organics, koi keepers, money.

Summary:

- You may want to skip this section if you use only small quantities of food for feeding a few goldfish.

- I have written this chapter because it is an area where so much money is spent by koi keepers in particular and it an area that can create many problems particularly when it comes to water quality.

- Everybody strives to get the very best from their ponds, filters and of course their fish.

- Considerable expense is incurred by most enthusiasts in attempting to get the best out of their koi and one of the most expensive and ongoing cost items is the cost of food.

- To emphasise this consider that if a fish eats 1% of its weight every day and if there are 50 kg of fish in a pond then the owner will feed 0.5 kg of food every day.

- In simple terms high quality food made from high quality raw materials fed in the correct quantities results in less fish waste products and less waste from the food itself.

- If a 5 kg bag of food contains 15% ash, 10% moisture and 3% fibre then 28% of the bag's contents (amounting to a whopping 1.4 kg) is a total waste of money.

- Worse still 18% of the food (ash and fibre pass through the fish) now has to be handled/removed by the filter - 900 gms of solid waste has to be removed from the pond.

- As koi food is concerned the digestibility is governed by the type of raw material used.