After pre-planning, design, selection of the right fish pond filtration system, construction, installationcommissioning until the filtration equipment is functioning properly.A private garden koi pond is almost complete.
The previous article shared with you in detail the precautions to be taken when entering a new fish pond, and then we really enter the fish raising process, how to feed, raise water, and koi fish disease control is the key to fish raising!
How do you feed koi?
Beginners are often eager to eat beautiful "competition fish", or do not know how much to feed, not regular, quantitative random feeding, and the pursuit of high-quality fish food.
Koi eat a lot and pull a lot, some eat a lot and pull a lot, fish disease comes. Everything has to have a "degree", more than this "degree", the result will be the opposite. In addition, if you feed more, the toxic substances or pathogenic bacteria in the koi pond will rise sharply. If your filtration system is not on-line or not perfect, enteritis, congestion, rotting tails, scale and other diseases will come.
1. Food
Koi are omnivorous fish, choosing synthetic pellets, plant fragments, red worms, earthworms, breadworms, silkworm pupae, rice, bread and fruits are all fine, but special attention should be paid to the feeding of animal feeds, if they are not treated cleanly koi devour them, they will be used by parasites as hosts and survive, and then reproduce, which will cause great harm to the koi.
Carp bait is also very important, good bait will not break down the size of the carp. The most important secret to fattening up the Koi is to give different amounts of bait depending on the temperature of the water. If you still want to give a lot of bait, increase the circulation in the koi pond filtration system.
A ratio of 60% plant feed and 40% animal bait is generally appropriate.
2、Feeding
Eating once or twice a day and within 5 to 10 minutes is preferred.
Feed less on rainy days and not at night.
In winter, the water temperature is mostly below 7 degrees, the koi's foraging activity is less, the number of bait is less, the baiting time is mostly chosen at noon when the light is stronger, and the baiting can also be stopped when the water temperature is 1-2 degrees.
Family ornamental fish feeding, can be fed once a day, the amount of bait for about 7-8% full can be. Productive ornamental fish feeding, spring and fall seasons, the water temperature is suitable, to maintain adequate baiting.
During the breeding season, baiting is reduced by 1/2-1/3 from normal baiting.
3, the food must be clean
Feeding unclean fish food can easily lead to fish diseases. Although fish like live food, the growth of fish fed live food is also faster. However, live food grows in a polluted water environment and is easily contaminated with germs, so it is important to be careful when feeding live food.
It is recommended to buy branded frozen fresh food produced by specialized companies and supplement it with beans and vegetables to balance the nutrition. Breadworms are also a favorite live food for koi fish with high nutritional value and can also be fed appropriately.
4. Keep the water clean
Koi eat a lot, consume a lot of oxygen and excrete waste which leads to serious contamination of the pond water and breeding of germs. In order to keep the water consistently clean, a suitable Koi pond filtration system should be selected, which can be fitted with an integrated pond filter, chosen according to individual needs and budgets, with special attention paid to a sterilization system that focuses on filtration.
Choose professional filtration equipment made by big brand factories to allow circulation and filtration,Biochemical cultivation of bacteria,Oxygenation, sterilization, backwashing, sewage at the same time, a machine to solve water quality problems, easy to raise fish happy viewing.