hand feeding vids

[saph.st24]

gave them some brown bread for a treat today, click the pics to veiw video

noisy beggers


finally got finley and dyson to hand feed


you will notice mr wong wont eat his crusts


even hand fed the goldies good old bubble(bubble was the one to teach the koi to hand feed) not hand fed these since last year

[jordan]

awww thay are so butiful and i love how thay feed im iv just got my 2 butterfly koi and my normal koi to feed out my hand in the tank its so rewording when thay do feed out your hand isnt it

[saph.st24]

it took me ages to get the koi to hand feed
 bubble my red and white comet in the end vid  showed them how to do it better then any chag

[andykoitech]

Hi Saph

Mind your fingers !! they sound as if they want to taste them  lol

[saph.st24]

oh shes alright shes big but gentle,its him youve got to watch your fingers with he'll have you he may have a wonky tail but hes a strong so n so

[Rodders]

my chag came up almost straight away first time I tried. The others are still a bit shy, but i dont spend enough time trying.
I usually use prawns, but chaggy just barges everyone out the way so he can eat them all, so not the best thing to let others have a go with, lol.

[saph.st24]

mine love prawns to get the usual response complete mayhem

[andykoitech]

try Strawberries cut into quarters its brilliant. Wish I was a koi as they are expensive to try yourself

[saph.st24]

strawberrries mmm i got some growing for geoffrey our guinea pig  so will try them on one
mine also love satsumas

[andykoitech]

Strawberries if you can hand feed them its the best way. The best is water melon, they just ravish it but once they have finished it remove the rind from the pond otherwise it will just rot away. As a treat I put 1 clove of garlic in about 1-4 days worth of good and keep shaking it around daily, just watch them ravish the food then but just treat as a treat until you use it all up or they will expect it all the time

[saph.st24]

phew garlic

[andykoitech]

Garlic is one my first remedies for encouraging fish to eat.I would recomend any FISH keeper to use it. I first used it to feed marine fish which were frightened to come out to feed because of their fear of being bullied by the territorial fish,It might not be a nice smell but the fish will ravish the food covered with it.

[saph.st24]

so what garlic do you use it it just a paste

[andykoitech]

Hi Saph

I just use 1 little clove and put it whole into about a mugs worth of pellets put into a plastic bag, Keep turning the pellets for a day or 2 and then start feeding them, still turning them around in the bag to get even distribution in the bag.
Then discard the garlic clove when you've used up the pellets.

[saph.st24]

might give it a try
 
we used garlic powder in horse feed apart from the odvious benifits its believed the horse sweats the garlic out and it helps keep way flies dont know if that part is true but it does seem to do something