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Super Food Koi Food by Drs. Foster & Smith

Personal reasons: Cannot stand this company. Doesn’t change the fact that this food rates well and is well done. And it isn’t on Amazon so I don’t even get an affiliate fee (Boo hoo!). Again, doesn’t change the fact that this food rates well. Pardon my whining ha ha haha.

You can get this food here: Super Food Koi Food by “Doctors” Foster & Smith

When you get into the larger bags it gets pretty cheap. Like, $2.50 a pound.

Assessment:

TWO aquacultural proteins in the top four ingredients (nice) but also TWO split ingredients (Wheat and Soy). No discernible color enhancer. Vitamin C in this diet is not stabilized and is vulnerable to degradation. Does contain probiotics and a full vitamin mix. Unable to tell if cooked.

Ingredients
Menhaden Fish Meal Based, Wheat Flour, Shrimp Meal, Kelp Meal, Rice Bran, Soy Protein Isolate, Fish Oil, Dehulled Soybean Meal, Corn Gluten Meal, Ground Wheat, Poultry By-Product Meal, Blood Meal, Spinach, Propionic Acid (a preservative), Yeast Culture, Ascorbic Acid, Beet Powder, Dried Bacillus licheniformis Fermentation Product, Brewer’s Dried Yeast, Asparagus, Anise, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Vitamin E Supplement, Vitamin Bl 2 Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement, Niacin Supplement, Calcium Pantothenate, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite (source of Vitamin K activity), Folic Acid, Thiamine Mononitrate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Biotin, Calcium Carbonate, Zinc Sulfate, Ferrous Sulfate, Magnesium Oxide, Manganese Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Ethylenediamine Dihydriodide, Cobalt Sulfate, Sodium Selenite.

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Ecological Labs Koi Legacy High Growth and Energy Fish Food

Ecological Labs Koi Legacy High Growth and Energy Fish Food

Assessment:

One aquacultural protein in the top four ingredients, but Krill Meal further down, so there’s that. And only one split ingredient (wheat). Spirulina and other color enhancers. Probiotics. Unable to tell if cooked. This diet is pretty close to the formulation of the Staple from Microbe Lift.

I prefer more aquacultural protein and less plant sources but that’s biased. I’d feed this diet if it was at a good price, perhaps in larger than one pound containers.

Ingredients

Fish meal, wheat, dehulled soybean meal, corn gluten meal, distillers grains with solubles, wheat middlings, krill meal, fish oil, red iron oxide, dicalcium phosphate, DL-methioninie, beet powder, salt, brewers yeast, spirulina, betafin S1, ascorbic acid (stay-C), astaxanthin, ethoxyquin, bio plus 2B, calcium carbonate, vitamin E, thiamine mononitrate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, D-calcium panothonate, niacin, folic acid, riboflavin, menadione sodium bisulfate complex, biotin, vitamin D3, manganese sulfate, copper sulfate, zinc sulfate, cobalt carbonate, ethylenediamine dihydriodide, ferrous sulfate, sodium selenite, vitamin A, mineral oil, vitamin B12

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Microbe Lift Legacy Koi Food Staple

Microbe Lift Legacy Summer Koi Food Staple

Assessment:  Only one aquacultural proteins in the top four ingredients and only one split ingredient (wheat). Spirulina, Betaine, Spinach, Astaxanthin,  as color enhancer. Even has a lot of probiotics. Unable to tell if cooked.

This is a solid, B-grade food. I would feed this. Price matters, then.

Ingredients: Fish Meal, Whole Wheat, Dehulled Soybean Meal, Alfalfa Meal, Corn Gluten Meal, Wheat Middlings, Fish Oil, Brewers Dried Yeast, Dicalcium Phosphate, Spinach, L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate, Spirulina, Betaine Anhydrous, Salt, Choline Chloride, Chromium Oxide, Ethoxyquin (preservative), Astaxanthin (color), Bacillus licheniformis Fermentation Product, Bacillus subtilis Fermentation Product, Vitamin E Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, d-Calcium Pantothenate, Niacin, Folic Acid, Riboflavin, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex, Biotin, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Manganese Sulfate, Cobalt Carbonate, Ethylenediamine Dihydriodide, Ferrous Sulfate, Sodium Selenite, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement.

Guaranteed Analysis:
Crude Protein (min) – 36.0%
Crude Fat (min) – 6.0%
Crude Fiber (max) – 5.0%
Moisture (max) – 8.0%
Ash (max) – 9.0%
Phosphorous (min) – 1.3%
Copper (min) – 7 mg/kg

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Blue Ridge Blend Growth Formula Koi Food

Blue Ridge Blend Growth Formula Koi Food

As affordable diets go, averaging $4/lb –  this one is better. It’s got fish meal in the top three ingredients.

Assessment:

One aquacultural protein in the top four ingredients, but ZERO split ingredient (wheat). No Spirulina and no color enhancer. Unable to tell if cooked.

Ingredients

Dehulled soybean meal, ground corn, Fish meal, wheat middlings, porcine meat meal, animal fat preserved with ethoxyquin, porcine animal fat preserved with BHA, poultry by-product meal, brewer’s dried yeast, brewer’s yeast extract, menadione dimethylpyrimidinol bisulfate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate, DL-methionine, folic acid, cholecalciferol, calcium pantothenate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, DL-alpha tocopheryl acetate, biotin, ethoxyquin (a preservative), Vitamin A acetate, nicotinic acid, choline chloride, cyanocobalamin, zinc oxide, manganous oxide, ferrous carbonate, copper sulfate, zinc sulfate, calcium iodate, calcium carbonate, cobalt carbonate, sodium selenite. Ruminant meat and bone meal free.

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Kenzen Koi Food Primary Diet – All Year and Winter

Kenzen Koi Food

 

Assessment:

One aquacultural protein in the top four ingredients, and zero split ingredients. Has spirulina and additional color enhancer. Has two probiotics. I can’t tell if it’s cooked.

Ingredients:

Menhaden Fish Meal, Potato Starch, Soybean Oil, DL Methionine, L-Lysine, Spirulina, Yeast Extract, L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate (source of stabilized vitamin C), Rosemary Extract, Mixed Tocopherols, Citric Acid, Choline Chloride, Betaine Anhydrous, Inositol, Vitamin E supplement, Biotin, Niacinamide, Calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin, Folic acid, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Beta Carotene, Manganous Oxide, Zinc Oxide, Ferrous Sulfate, Thiamine Mononitrate, Vitamin A acetate, Calcium Iodate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Selenium Yeast.

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Sho Koi with Impact

Sho Koi Food was tested by me more than ten years ago and promoted very rapid growth and excellent health. Because the diet performed well in terms of rapid growth and palatability, this diet receives my recommendation.

An accurate ingredient list is not available. I did a LOT of work on this food in 2004-2007 testing it’s abilities to speed healing, fend off disease and the most remarkable thing I found was a NOTABLE,measurable improvement in growth rates in Koi. Compared to another group of Koi fed another diet, (which confounded the study) the Sho Koi groupd grew faster. The study should have tried the food against several / many other foods. the This is a VERY good food but I can’t give you any details, for lack of a nutritional breakout.

Sho Koi contains “Impact / Optimmune” which is Beta-glucan. “Beta-glucan” which stimulates the immune system. Harvard University researchers described the mode of action of beta-glucan as stimulating the immune system through receptors on the surface of certain cells, called ‘macrophages’ that when activated, stimulate a cascade of events turning the body into “an arsenal of defence”.