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Pond Food.

There is a huge choice of pond fish food on the market and deciding which ones to use can seem a bit daunting. Here we show some of the best available and discuss their merits.

Tetra Pond Variety Sticks 10 Litre Bucket

Containing Koi Sticks, Wheatgerm Sticks and Floating Food Sticks, this blend provides fish with a varied and interesting diet. It also caters for a variety of fish with different nutritional needs.

Tetra Variety Sticks contain all nutrients, vitamins, and trace elements for a balanced, healthy diet. They soften quickly for easy eating, with a low waste formula for clearer, healthier water.

GardenCentre.co.uk £21.45

Tetra Pond Floating Food Sticks 10 Litre Bucket

Provide all the fish in your pond with a complete and balanced diet with these floating food sticks. They quickly soften on the water surface, allowing your fish to digest them easily – in turn ensuring less waste and improved water quality.

The food sticks contain all the nutrients, vitamins, and trace elements required for providing a healthy diet for your fish, throughout the year.

GardenCentre.co.uk £17.16

Tetra Pond Floating Koi Sticks – 10 Litre Bucket

These floating sticks have been specially formulated for the unique nutritional needs of the Koi in your pond. The sticks are highly digestible, and their natural colour enhancers will bring out the superb colouring of your koi.

They quickly soften on the water surface, allowing your koi to digest them easily – in turn ensuring less waste and improved water quality. The sticks contain all the nutrients, vitamins, and trace elements required for providing a healthy diet.

GardenCentre.co.uk £22.52

Dr Clarkes Pond Sticks Natural 5kg

The complete floating food for pond fish and Koi, specifically formulated to provide all the necessary fibre, proteins, vitamins and trace elements needed for healthy and rapid growth. Contains Vitamin C.

All Dr Clarke's products are scientifically formulated according to advanced nutritional standards and produced under veterinary supervision.

Cloverleaf Freshwater Shrimp 5 Litre Bucket

A real treat for your fish, this supplementary food offers the benefit of being a natural source for colour enhancement whilst also having a high nutritional and vitamin value.

Cloverleaf Freshwater Shrimp (dried in their shells) provide ease of digestibility, purity and vitamin content. Protein 46 Fibre 6.2 Calcium 3.9 Phosphor 0.3 Water 10.8 Fat 8.5 - Vitamin A and its provitamins.

GardenCentre.co.uk £21.45


Tetra Wheatgerm Sticks 2kg

This pond filter will help you create a clean, clear healthy pond. The UVC is compactly designed within the lid to eliminate green water, while the biological filter below looks after water quality. Economic, with extremely low power usage.

GardenCentre.co.uk £28.96

 

Hikari Gold - Fish Food

Hikari Gold is a daily diet, developed to meet the nutritional needs of koi while providing excellent colour enhancement. Hikari Gold contains outstanding nutrition and high protein levels, producing improved growth rates and form.

The floating pellet allows easy monitoring of the amount eaten, helping to eliminate over-feeding and also reducing water quality problems.

Contains Stabilized Vitamin C.

Promotes resistance to stress and infectious disease.

Hikari Gold is available in a choice of pellet sizes, mini, medium or large. Each type is available in a selection of pack sizes as shown below.

Hikari Gold Fish Food Mini - 500g - GardenCentre.co.uk £10.14

Hikari Gold Fish Food Medium

Hikari Gold Fish Food Large



Hikari Economy Fish Food

This economical, daily diet for koi and other pond fishes will provide them with the basic nutrition they require to live a long and healthy life. Hikari Economy provides little or no colour enhancement.

 

 

 

large pellets - 5kg - GardenCentre.co.uk £32.13

medium pellets - 5kg - GardenCentre.co.uk £32.13

 

Hikari Excel Fish Food

A scientifically developed, colour enhancing, easily digestible food produced from a mixture of highly nutritious wheat-germ and pure cultured spirulina. After a month of daily feeding it can produce ideal coloration of your koi.

 

 

medium pellets

500g GardenCentre.co.uk £13.89
5kg GardenCentre.co.uk £117.96

 

 

Nishikoi Pond Flake Food - 1320g Bucket

This multi-usage flake is specially formulated for all coldwater fish in ponds and aquaria. Highly digestible and low waste, it is perfect for supplementing the diets of smaller pond fish.

 

 

 

GardenCentre.co.uk £21.45

 

Nishikoi Growth Pond Pellet Food

A high performance, colour-enhancing pellet packed with the optimum level of highly digestible protein. Feed to your fish at normal summer temperatures and it will stimulate excellent growth while maintaining a well proportioned body shape.

Contains 37% protein for growth, stabilised vitamin C, and colour enhancers.

Available in small, medium and large pellets and pond stick forms and in many weights from 350g to 10kg.

Nishikoi Growth small pond pellets

Nishikoi Growth medium pond pellets

Nishikoi Growth large pond pellets

Nishikoi Growth sticks



Nishikoi Wheatgerm Pond Pellet Food

This highly digestible, vegetable-based, low protein food has a high wheatgerm content, which improves digestion during low temperatures. This in turn minimises ammonia excretion, vital at these periods of reduced filter performance.

Available in small, medium and large pellets and pond stick forms and in many weights from 350g to 10kg.

 

Nishikoi Wheatgerm small pond pellet food

Nishikoi Wheatgerm medium pond pellet food

Nishikoi Wheatgerm large pond pellet food



Nishikoi Spring and Autumn Mix

A mix of pellets, sticks and flakes for feeding a range of pond fish at low temperatures. The combination of sticks, pellets and flakes makes it ideal for a pond containing a range of fish sizes and varieties.

The low-waste wheatgerm-based formulation makes it easy to digest - just what pond fish and filters need in the spring and autumn. 20 percent protein for growth. 100 percent re-sealable, water resistant jar for freshness.





Nishikoi Staple Pond Pellet Food

Provide your pond fish and Koi with the ideal maintenance diet with Nishikoi Staple. The food contains the right levels of protein for healthy growth, with a high stabilised Vitamin C content providing a much needed health boost.

 

 

 

Contents

Nishikoi Staple small pond pellet food -

Nishikoi Staple medium pond pellet food

Nishikoi Staple large pond pellet food


Nishikoi Niigata Professional Koi Pond Pellet Food

'Based on the recommendations of professional japanese koi farmers'

Provide your fish with a high performance natural diet based on the recommendations of professional Japanese koi farmers. Niigata Professional Koi Food also reproduces many of the beneficial features of a clay pond environment.

Niigata Professional has been developed to generate rapid growth in koi. The protein is highly digestible which allows your koi to utilise it more efficiently, helping to keep waste to a minimum and your pond water cleaner. The high performance dual-action colour enhancing formula is designed to maintain the vibrant colour that your koi would have shown the day they were harvested from Japanese mud ponds. Health boosting agents such a propolis, Nish-Clay and Vetregard® (a natural immunostimulant) help to protect your koi from disease.

Vetregard® - a pre biotic immunostimulant that is well recognised in the world of aquaculture. Vetregard® is made from purified beta glucans that aids the development of natural bacteria in the intestine and helps the immune system.

When to feed - Niigata Professional should be fed to koi when pond temperatures are above 10 degrees C (50 degrees F) or when koi are actively seeking food.

Niigata Professional Koi Contains

Nishikoi Niigata Pro small pond pellet food

Nishikoi Niigata Pro medium pond pellet food

Nishikoi Niigata Pro large pond pellet food