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Blackwater Creek Color Enhancing

BLACK WATER CREEK COLOR ENHANCING FOOD Floating fish food that contains 38% protein, 6% fat, and 4% fiber. Color enhancing diet to provide maximum vibrancy. Main ingredients of: plant, animal, and...(click on product image for more details)

Blackwater Creek Premium

BLACK WATER CREEK PREMIUM Formulated to grow and maintain fish in top condition. High protein fish meal-based diet contains absolutely no fillers. Floating fish food that contains 38% protein, 8%...(click on product image for more details)

Blackwater Gold

Blackwater Gold Koi Food is a professional diet, complete with pro-biotics to ensure optimal Koi health. Professional koi food for serious breeders and koi enthusiasts. Made fresh with the highest...(click on product image for more details)

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What do Koi Eat?
Choosing the right food for your Koi is one on the most important decisions you must make. We are committed to offering a wide selection of medicated, colour enhancing, growth stimulating and sustaining foods.

The feeding pattern, and thus the growth rate, of Koi depends on many factors, such as water temperature, water quality, stocking density and genetic background Koi feed most actively at temperatures in excess of 15c(59F), thus sexually immature fish can grow rapidly during the summer months when the temperature is warmer.

Once Koi are mature, their growth rate slows considerably; in sexually mature fish, most of the food eaten is utilized in producing eggs or sperm in preparation for breeding. However, unlike many other vertebrates, fish continue to grow throughout their lives and it is easy for pampered Koi to reproduce and continue to grow because of their artificially high feeding rates.

The cycle of rapid growth in summer and retarded growth in winter produces rings on the fish's scales (much like the growth rings of a tree) and a Koi's age can be determined by counting these rings. Some Koi-keepers, however, who heat their pools in the winter, continue to feed their Koi throughout the year. If a Koi has continued to feed during winter its rings will not be clearly defined and it will therefore be difficult to age.

Water Temp
in °(F)
Feeding Quantity Food Type
less than50 Do not feed Koi Temps. at 10° C of more than one month may require supplemental feedings of low protein high carbohydrate.
50-55 2-3 times a week
(if Koi are hungry)
High carbohydrate, low protein, laxative type foods.
Wheat germ, squash, lettuce & brown bread.
56-59 4-5 times per week
(if Koi are hungry)
Add low protein (25%) pellets along with vegetables.
Increase quantities gradually as temp. increases.
60 Once per day six days a week Low protein (25%) pellets along with high carbohydrate vegetables and fruit.
60-64 Once or twice per day everyday Gradually increase protein in pellets (35%) and quantity of pellets. Vary diet with vegetables and fruits.
65-72 Once or twice per day Bulk of diet should be 35% protein pellets.
Add fruits, vegetables and plankton for variety.
73 & up 3-4 times a day High protein pellets (35% to 40%) with color enhancers. Add plankton, vegetables, fruits and shrimp.