Different Between Floating Fish Feed Pellets and Sinking Fish Feed Pellets for Koi Fish

Koi is a popular ornamental fish of high-end in today’s world, because of its water quality requirement is not high, feeding more miscellaneous and easy breading, therefore, it became popular among the people. However, which kind of fish feed pellets is more suitable for koi, floating fish pellets or sinking fish pellets?

 

Actually, different fish enthusiasts take different attitudes to the selection of fish feed pellets. When it comes to floating fish feed pellet and sinking fish feed pellets, no one is considered superior to the other, your choice totally depends on fish species. As for koi, the choice of fish feed pellets also exists differences.

 

Some koi hobbyists prefer floating fish feed pellets to feed koi, because apart from bring out delicate beauty of koi on the pond surface, floating fish feed pellets cannot mess up the pond for uneaten pellets can be easily cleaned out from the surface of pond before they dissolve into harmful substances. More importantly, you can see what is happening on the pond such as the fish food, and the diseases examination. Meantime, they worry about sinking pellets remain at the bottom of pond will eventually decay, which lead to breeding of bacteria that may cause proliferation of fish disease.

 

Generally, koi are considered as bottom feeders. From the appearance of observation, their mouths face downwards, which naturally means sinking fish feed pellets are more suitable for their feeding since koi can easily take a gulp. From experience of many koi breeders and hobbyists, koi bulk faster if being fed with sinking food not only because their natural anatomy but also sinking fish feed pellets are more dense compare to floating fish feed pellets, that is to say, if one koi eat 10 sinking pellet, compared to another eating 10 floating pellets, the former will be absorb more protein than the latter, hence sinking fish feed pellets are conductive to the growth of koi.

Floating fish feed pellets or sinking fish feed pellets, the choice is according to your own situation. Our company specialize in fish feed machine , which can produce all kinds of floating or sinking aqua feed for koi, eel, shrimp, bullfrog, etc. The final products have good taste, high nutrition and smooth textures. We have two types fish feed pellet machine, including dry type fish feed machine and wet type fish feed machine. The biggest difference lies in the wet type need a steam boiler while the dry type doesn’t.