In the Charleston Showa Koi Club we are lucky enough to have the enthusiastic Johnna
Hansen as a member. As one of our certified
Koi Health Advisor's, Johnna has done a lot of research into
Koi nutrition. Adapting a recipe from Bill in the UK,
she has created a paste food recipe that provides
all of the nutrients our Koi require. She has also made up batches of the food for our members. Johnna has also kindly
allowed us to publish her recipe on the web site.
Ingredients
10 small shrimp (heads on) cooked,
save the water
1/2 cup cooked and chopped salmon
½ cup other fish cooked and chopped
½ slice cooked beef liver
One handful of greens (spinach)
½ cup wheat germ
½ cup
koi clay
½ cup seaweed flour***
3 packets of knox gelatin
1 cup Orange juice
1
squirt of baby vitamins
1/8 C. cod liver oil
Directions
Place
wheat germ in the blender and pulverize it
into a powder. Add to a bowl with all of the
other dry ingredients.
Blend seafood, liver and greens in blender with 1 cup of orange juice, until
a slurry is formed. Add baby Vitamins and oil. You should
get 2 cups of protein slurry from this.
Add ½ cup of
the warm water that you saved from cooking
the shrimp to the gelatin and dissolve, add to
the blender and mix
well.
Pour blender contents into
the bowl with the dry ingredients and mix well with
your hands. Patty out and refrigerate. The food can be frozen to feed at a later
date.
Information
***Johnna
orders her seaweed flour from North
American Kelp in Maine.
The addition of salmon provides calcium and
phosphorus which aids in the assimilation
of vitamin A (carotene)
The green leafy vegetables provides
vitamin
C, Folic acid, vitamin B5 and Riboflavin.
The liver provides vitamin
B2, B5, B12, H and Folic acid.
I think that our fish eat better than our members!
