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Fish Food And Accessories
Vitrafin Fish Foods
New and Exclusive to Water Gardening Direct, is Vitrafin, our great range of Top Quality, Koi and Goldfish food.
After extensive discussions with one of the UK's biggest fish food manufacturers, the Vitrafin range offers all the benifits and quality of the top name brands in our industry, but at a much lower price.
BUY TWO - GET THE THIRD FREE
When you buy ANY 3 Vitrafin product, you get the lowest priced item free.
Staple Foods
An economic, complete and balanced diet for all pond fish.
Growth Foods
High protein, easily digested food designed specially for Koi but suitable for all pond fish.

Nishikoi Niigata Pro Pellets
A high performance natural diet based on the recommendations of professional Japanese koi farmers.
Wheatgerm Foods
Balanced low protein fish diet for the Autumn, Winter and early Spring months.

Pond Sticks
Ideal general floating food for all types of pond fish.
Flake Foods
A Flake mix which provides a complete perfectly balanced diet for all ornamental pond fish.
Variety Foods
A mix of Pond Food Sticks, Pond Flake Food, Red Food Pellets and Koi Sticks, ideal for the starter or for the pond with a big mix in the species of fish.
Sinking Foods
The slow sinking granules provide a complete diet for all bottom feeders. Ideal for common Tench an Sterlets.
Fish Food Accessories
Take a look at our Feeding Ring and Automatic Fish Feeders

Feeding Your Fish
Many, many people only buy one kind of fish food and feed that to their fish all year round. However, this is not necessarily the best option for the fish or your pocket. Pond fish extract different nutrients from their food at a different temperature.
In the case of protein the uptake of this nutrient is limited during the cooler months and much higher during the hot summer temperatures. Foods have now been developed with this in mind and Wheatgerm foods which are low in protein but more easily digested, have been developed for Autumn, Winter and Spring feeding; whilst growth foods, which are high in protein are available for summer months. Below is a rough guide of what to feed and when.
 
Pond Feeding Guide
Food Type Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Minimum Feeding Temperature
Growth                        
10 deg C (50 deg F) +
Staple                        
8 deg C (45 deg F) +
Wheatgerm                        
5 deg C (40 deg F) +
Pond Stick                        
8 deg C (45 deg F) +
Flake                        
8 deg C (45 deg F) +
 
How much to feed your fish
You should only feed your fish enough food to allow them to feed for five minutes. Any more will be wasted and end up as waste in the pond. If a fish is fed until it is full, 30% of fish food will come straight out as waste. The five minute feed can be given four or five times a day, at regular times during the day.

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