Virtually Real World of Koi, if five Koi are given ample room to grow and top quality water purification to live in, will food prove to be a factor in there color and size?
Starting in January I will attempt to study the effects of various brands of Koi food. I will use the premium grade Koi Food of the top three brands. As a control I will use a store brand fish food formulated for Koi. For six months a select number of hand picked Nishikigoi will be kept in a controlled environment.
The Six fish tanks diagramed below (4 tanks @ 200 Gallons) will house 5 Koi per tank, or 1 Koi per 40 Gallons of water.
above design may change
1 Premium Brand TBA
2 Premium Brand TBA
3 Premium Brand TBA
4 Control food source
The Premium Brand food will be chosen by the poll taken on this website so please voice your opinion http://1lkoi.blogspot.com/ and http://koishack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=18699
On the Virtually Real World of Koi, I will log information on water quality, including photos of the filter system during changes to track waste. This will be a Vlog Blog so the reader will not only get access to photos and data, but actually view streaming content of the subjects themselves such as feeding frenzy behavior.
Data to be collected:
Water Quality
Chlorine, Oxygen, Ammonia, Nitrites, Nitrates, pH, Alkalinity, Hardness, Salinity, Phosphates, and Copper.
Obviously some of these parameters will stabilize, but they’re listed for the sake of full disclosure.
If there is data that you think should be listed per your own analysis, please post it and I will gladly include it as a part of this compilation.
Thank you for reading, and please check back often, page is being updated daily.
Source material and research data:
Starting in January I will attempt to study the effects of various brands of Koi food. I will use the premium grade Koi Food of the top three brands. As a control I will use a store brand fish food formulated for Koi. For six months a select number of hand picked Nishikigoi will be kept in a controlled environment.
The Six fish tanks diagramed below (4 tanks @ 200 Gallons) will house 5 Koi per tank, or 1 Koi per 40 Gallons of water.
above design may change
1 Premium Brand TBA
2 Premium Brand TBA
3 Premium Brand TBA
4 Control food source
The Premium Brand food will be chosen by the poll taken on this website so please voice your opinion http://1lkoi.blogspot.com/ and http://koishack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=18699
On the Virtually Real World of Koi, I will log information on water quality, including photos of the filter system during changes to track waste. This will be a Vlog Blog so the reader will not only get access to photos and data, but actually view streaming content of the subjects themselves such as feeding frenzy behavior.
Data to be collected:
Water Quality
Chlorine, Oxygen, Ammonia, Nitrites, Nitrates, pH, Alkalinity, Hardness, Salinity, Phosphates, and Copper.
Obviously some of these parameters will stabilize, but they’re listed for the sake of full disclosure.
If there is data that you think should be listed per your own analysis, please post it and I will gladly include it as a part of this compilation.
Thank you for reading, and please check back often, page is being updated daily.
Source material and research data:
This Vlog will focus mostly on pollution, pollution effects stock rate, Koi are dirty fish like aquatic pigs, so if these foods claim to be formulated “so Koi can metabolize it better than all other Koi foods” as they all seem to boast, lets test that. If you feed your Koi 5oz of Premium Koi food what comes out as waist is fed to your filter, and if that’s cool with you, then you don’t need to follow this, but if your like me and need to know what going to your filter instead of your fish, then by all means stick around, I’m not pulling any punches here.
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