Great video , koi looking in perfect health. I like your idea of mixing the foods together then the fish dont get used to just one type of food. Can you tell me where you sourced the new food container from. Keep up the videos well done a usual...Thanks Andy
I 've gone back to Hikari I've tried all the other brands and always find that after a few months they either clog my drum with a slime or cause my water to have a tinge of brown to it. I only feed wheatgerm now all year round. I'm not too concerned with growth and to be honest when I did feed growth food only noticed the same levels of growth on average per year. Fish look great some stunners there for sure.
With all that food you are going to need a (cough! cough! Protein skimmer 😜) I hope you and the family are well the koi are looking fantastic, sometimes less is more. I started using aqua source last year and especially for the price its great food and doesn't trash the water or create too much waste.
How many koi did you introduce to your pond first of all to avoid new pond syndrome? Got a similar size pond to yours and got 3 tosai koi on order from Gatwick koi. Would this be too little to start the nitrogen cycle? Cheers mate
Hi, Even those 3 small koi will produce enough ammonia to get things going. With a brand new pond its always best to gradually increase numbers over time. Remember to watch those parameters closely and if you can install a trickle in / trickle out to help neutralise the spikes. This stops the need for huge water changes as the parameters rise.
Very good! Im using the same mix in my grow on and outdoor pond. The growth has been very impressive so far and we are only just into the growing season!
Very good question! Purely comes down to quality mate. Sticks are very cheap and low it nutrients. Generally artificially coloured to appeal to the buyer rather than the koi!
Some beautiful fish in that pond....great channel by the way
Thanks Steve, appreciate it
That Asagi is stunning Craig the koi are looking really good and the water Crystal clear cracking video 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Cheers buddy
I dont care about the food. .i've been dreaming of having an asagi like you have. .really super nice! .its perfect!
Thanks fella 👍🏻
Looking good mate 👍
Cheers fella
🤞 for big results this year, with your main pond emptied out and the grow on, with some quality little crackers in there
Great video , koi looking in perfect health. I like your idea of mixing the foods together then the fish dont get used to just one type of food. Can you tell me where you sourced the new food container from. Keep up the videos well done a usual...Thanks Andy
Cheers matey. Just search for blue barrel on ebay.
I 've gone back to Hikari I've tried all the other brands and always find that after a few months they either clog my drum with a slime or cause my water to have a tinge of brown to it. I only feed wheatgerm now all year round. I'm not too concerned with growth and to be honest when I did feed growth food only noticed the same levels of growth on average per year. Fish look great some stunners there for sure.
Yes i have heard people do get similar results with wheatgerm and some cheaper foods such as coppens.
@@madaboutkoi I've tried Coppens but after a while they started leaving it lol
With all that food you are going to need a (cough! cough! Protein skimmer 😜) I hope you and the family are well the koi are looking fantastic, sometimes less is more. I started using aqua source last year and especially for the price its great food and doesn't trash the water or create too much waste.
Hahaha, sure ive got one of those somewhere....🤔. 🤣🤣
Yes all safe here, hope yours are too bud.
Love your videos but gotta ask why do you film in vertical video? Cheers.
Thanks for the feedback Simon. I will ensure all my future videos are horizontal. Suppose its just me being lazy with the iphone! Ha
@@madaboutkoi Ahh I see lol. Thanks for the reply.
Is that a Matsuba in your pond? Nice looking fish and on my wish list. How many grams of food do you think you are putting in per day?
If you are talking about the red one then yes matey its an aka matsuba. Love it. Got no idea about weight of food to be honest. I will have to check
How many koi did you introduce to your pond first of all to avoid new pond syndrome? Got a similar size pond to yours and got 3 tosai koi on order from Gatwick koi. Would this be too little to start the nitrogen cycle? Cheers mate
Hi,
Even those 3 small koi will produce enough ammonia to get things going. With a brand new pond its always best to gradually increase numbers over time. Remember to watch those parameters closely and if you can install a trickle in / trickle out to help neutralise the spikes. This stops the need for huge water changes as the parameters rise.
@@madaboutkoi thanks for taking the time to reply mate. I will install a trickle in trickle out system to help with water chemistry 👍
It’s only been a month since this post but how do you like this food so far?
Very good! Im using the same mix in my grow on and outdoor pond. The growth has been very impressive so far and we are only just into the growing season!
Literally just orederd yesterday the Aqua source food ! Like the 50/50 splits the koi up deffo
Its great mate. Discovered it last season. And aquasource is very good food too. Think thats why Queni have started stocking it now.
Anymore info on the shiro ???
Ikarashi, 39cm, nisai
Will post a video of it now
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Hi I have noticed that every koi keeper on you tube always uses pellets rather than sticks ,is there a reason for this ?
Very good question!
Purely comes down to quality mate. Sticks are very cheap and low it nutrients. Generally artificially coloured to appeal to the buyer rather than the koi!
Thanks for the reply ,it just made me wonder as I buy a mix of both
Have you any kohaku for sale?
Sorry mate i dont
A man who markets a certain product recommending that same product. Obviously (1.08).
It was more about which one of the aquasource range to use for my koi goals mate rather than only recommending his product