Are you koi lovers? Koi is a very interesting animal in the pond. You can see how wonderful their vibrant and they can entertain you in your free time. You can feel happy when you feed them. Your koi need nutritional food that you can buy in the store or you can make it by yourself. Of course, when you make it by yourself you can arrange the nutrition inside the food so your koi will be healthier. If you are interested to make homemade koi fish food, below we will present you homemade koi food recipes.

Homemade Koi Food from Peas

Pea is a kind of nut that is rich in proteins, carbohydrates, and some nutrients such as manganese, vitamin K, vitamin C, copper, and fiber. Giving your koi homemade koi food from peas will be great nutrition for your koi. Besides, peas will be mixed with krill and sweet potatoes. Krill itself contains omega 3 fatty acids and antioxidants. It will protect Koi’s body from disease and illnesses.

On the other side, sweet potato contains carbohydrates and vitamins. It is very needed for Koi to make their color bright and they will not become easy too sick in extreme temperatures. Now, let’s see the way to make homemade koi food recipes.

• First, peel ½ cup frozen peas or cooked peas.
• Then, add with ¼ cup of krill.
• Take a fresh orange juice or it can be changed with ½ cup orange juice.
• After that peel and cut sweet potato.
• Add 1/8 linseed oil.
• And the last you need 1-2 packets of gelatin powder.
• Combine all the ingredients above, and blend them all into the blender.
• After you feel that it is smooth enough, stop the blender. Pour the koi food into the pan and let them become cold in the freezer.

It is very easy to make homemade koi food by yourself? Isn’t it? So, you just need to spend your time making this simple recipe for yourself. For your information, it is very nutritious koi food. Besides peas, krill, and sweet potato, there is also linseed oil.

This oil is useful because it has two fatty acids, they are linolenic and linoleic acids. And the function of gelatin itself in the recipe is to bind all the ingredients to become one. You also need to know that this peas koi food is suitable to give in summer when the air is hot and dry. Give the paste of peas for your koi as nutrition in the summer.

Nutritional Koi Food from Broccoli

Who doesn’t know broccoli? Everyone knows broccoli is needed for the soup. And the fact proves that broccoli is good as the koi food, especially in winter. The ingredients to make this pellet are also easy to find and cheap to buy. Let’s see the ingredients and how to make the nutritional koi food from broccoli.

• Cook broccoli first, you can change broccoli with spinach.
• Prepare ¼ cup of carrots.
• ¼ cup raspberries.
• ¼ cup spirulina.
• 1 cup wheat germ.
• Garlic powder or crushed garlic.
• You can add krill ¼ cup.
• Blend all the ingredients above and after you see it is smooth, you need to form them. Place them into small patties and put them in a non-stick baking sheet. Bake them at 190 degrees Celcius until hard.
• Finally, after you finish baking the koi food, you can freeze them in the refrigerator. This is good koi food, especially in winter.

While giving koi food from broccoli, you can also add fresh garlic to add the nutrition of the food. Fresh garlic contains allicin that is useful for avoiding the disease and illness of your Koi in winter. Your Koi will be protected from the virus and bacteria in the water.

For your information, this broccoli contains many vitamins such as A, B2, C, and K. Besides, broccoli includes fiber, betacarotene, and folate. The carrot itself includes carotenoids to boost the color of Koi. Spirulina contains eight amino acids and fatty acid chains.

The substances are very needed to help Koi’s pigmentation. Wheat germ has protein for the healthier koi. The last is raspberries. It contains vitamin C, E, minerals, and manganese. These are vital substances for koi to grow well and believe me, koi like them very much.

Substances That Koi Need for the Optimum Growth

So, here are some things that fish need. Please have a look at it.

• Carbohydrate

Carbohydrates can be obtained from wheat germ, bread, cheerios, and other dry cereal. If you find that cheerios are too starchy, you must be given them in a little portion first. Don’t force your koi to eat too much, especially for eating cheerios. Sometimes it can be too starchy and our task is to be patient waiting for the koi becomes common with their food.

• Protein

Protein itself can be obtained from shrimp or krill and bloodworms. If you want to make a variation, a protein that comes from a plant is useful too. You can get it from soybeans, spirulina, and wheat germ.

• Vitamin, Fat, and Mineral Content

The fat and mineral can be obtained from fish oil or linseed oil. Linseed oil contains fatty acids that are useful as the source of fat for koi food. You can get the vitamin from the vegetables such as broccoli, carrot, and raspberries. They are rich in vitamins such as B, C, A, D, and K.

Finally, homemade koi food recipes have many benefits for your koi. You can buy koi fish food expensively but you can not compose the good substance that is needed for your koi. Besides you can arrange what substances that your koi want to eat, you also feel convenient with the way. You can make sure that you have fresh ingredients. So, your koi will grow healthy and energic on the surface of the water.

Once that you have to know is don’t force your koi to eat directly much with your natural recipes. It needs time for your koi to know and introduce the taste of the homemade koi food recipes. The most important thing is always to give the best food for your koi and Your koi will adapt with it and you can find the better koi’s appearance, the better food you need for koi‘s optimum growth.