Niigata Professional Pellets A high performance ‘natural’ diet based on the recommendations of professional Japanese koi farmers. The excellent conditions and diet experienced by koi when farmed and reared in clay ponds is unsurpassed for promoting excellent health, growth and colour. Recognising this, Niigata Professional Koi Food reproduces many of the beneficial features of a clay pond environment, incorporating additional features that have been recommended by professional koi farmers from Niigata. Formulation includes Nishi-Clay, Propolis and Nishi-Guard to boost koi health and Spirulina to enhance koi colour. Niigata Professional Koi• High Protein Formulation Excellent Growth and Tissue Repair.• High Spirulina Inclusion Natural algae to enhance colour.• Now with Nishi-Guard immunostimulant for extra health benefits. • Propolis Natural health stimulant. • Montmorillonite Clay Natural mineral supplement for skin quality.• Stabilised Vitamin C Nature’s original health stimulant. A New Generation of Functional Foods for Koi Over the last 10 years, koi foods have successfully provided the basic dietary requirements of koi through careful formulation and processing technology. Such diets have traditionally focussed on protein and energy content, and addressed vitamin and mineral inclusion rates. More recent research shows that food can be used effectively to further enhance koi health and vigour through the addition of a range of innovative ingredients. This has enabled Nishikoi to formulate two ‘new generation’ products: Niigata Professional Koi Food and Nishi-Clay. The Background The key objective of koi keepers across the world is to maintain a collection of healthy, growing and colourful koi. To date, this has been achieved through the management of water quality and nutritional requirements in large purpose-built koi ponds containing clear, filtered and recirculation water.However, koi keepers can be regularly confronted by a number of different koi health issues that arise through the interactions between koi physiology and variations in their environment.In fact, it is widely acknowledged by koi professionals that there are several common factors behind some of the problems experienced by koi that are kept in traditional koi ponds. • Koi exhibit their best health, vitality and colour when kept in the ideal environment of a ‘natural’ clay pond. • A typical filtered koi pond is a compromise between maintaining koi in the excellent conditions provided by a clay pond and the koi keeper’s need for clear water. • The health, vitality and colour of koi kept in a koi pond are likely to deteriorate from the superb condition they exhibit in a natural clay pond. Consequently, there is a real need to provide koi with the nutrition and water quality that will ‘close the gap’ between the compromised conditions koi may experience in a koi pond and the ideal environment of a natural clay pond. Recognising this problem, and the need to reduce the hazards of keeping koi in a koi pond by returning them to the superior conditions of a clay pond, the objectives for developing a new range of koi foods and pond products were clear. The Objectives To develop a range of products designed to duplicate the key beneficial factors that enhance the health, growth and colour of koi when grown in a ‘natural’ Japanese clay pond, and to make these available to koi keepers for the long-term benefit of their koi. The Research The development process naturally involved research in Niigata, Japan, the home of the world’s finest koi, seeking the opinions and experience of some of Japan’s leading professional koi farmers. In particular, research focussed on how koi keepers overseas could best maintain the superb health, growth and colour that is exhibited in the freshly harvested, high grade koi produced in Niigata, Japan. It soon became apparent that the areas of nutrition and water quality were the key environmental differences between a clay pond environment and that of a typical koi pond, being likely to cause a deterioration in the health and condition of koi. Furthermore, through additional related research, supplementary factors were highlighted as significant in the enhancement of koi health, vitality and colour. The results of the research and the recommendations of koi farmers from Niigata, Japan, have been incorporated into the appropriately named ‘Nishikoi Niigata’ range of koi foods and pond products. ‘Created with the koi breeders of Niigata’. Typical Analysis: Protein (43%) Oil (5%) Ash (8.8%) Fibre (2 %) Vitamin A 4000iu Vitamin C 300mg Vitamin D 2000iu Vitamin E 140mg Ingredients: Propolis, Maize Gluten, Wheatgerm, Rice, Fish Meal, Maize, Fish Oil, Nishi-Clay, Nishi-Guard, Colourants, Spirulina, Astaxanthin and Canthaxanthin, Antioxidants. Available Sizes: Pack Size Pellet Size 420g Small, Medium 780g Small, Medium 1350g Small, Medium, Large 3kg Medium, Large 5kg Medium, Large 10kg Medium, Large
Niigata Professional Pellets
A high performance ‘natural’ diet based on the recommendations of professional Japanese koi farmers.
The excellent conditions and diet experienced by koi when farmed and reared in clay ponds is unsurpassed for promoting excellent health, growth and colour. Recognising this, Niigata Professional Koi Food reproduces many of the beneficial features of a clay pond environment, incorporating additional features that have been recommended by professional koi farmers from Niigata. Formulation includes Nishi-Clay, Propolis and Nishi-Guard to boost koi health and Spirulina to enhance koi colour.
Niigata Professional Koi• High Protein Formulation Excellent Growth and Tissue Repair.• High Spirulina Inclusion Natural algae to enhance colour.• Now with Nishi-Guard immunostimulant for extra health benefits. • Propolis Natural health stimulant. • Montmorillonite Clay Natural mineral supplement for skin quality.• Stabilised Vitamin C Nature’s original health stimulant.
A New Generation of Functional Foods for Koi
Over the last 10 years, koi foods have successfully provided the basic dietary requirements of koi through careful formulation and processing technology. Such diets have traditionally focussed on protein and energy content, and addressed vitamin and mineral inclusion rates. More recent research shows that food can be used effectively to further enhance koi health and vigour through the addition of a range of innovative ingredients. This has enabled Nishikoi to formulate two ‘new generation’ products: Niigata Professional Koi Food and Nishi-Clay.
The Background
The key objective of koi keepers across the world is to maintain a collection of healthy, growing and colourful koi. To date, this has been achieved through the management of water quality and nutritional requirements in large purpose-built koi ponds containing clear, filtered and recirculation water.However, koi keepers can be regularly confronted by a number of different koi health issues that arise through the interactions between koi physiology and variations in their environment.In fact, it is widely acknowledged by koi professionals that there are several common factors behind some of the problems experienced by koi that are kept in traditional koi ponds.
• Koi exhibit their best health, vitality and colour when kept in the ideal environment of a ‘natural’ clay pond.
• A typical filtered koi pond is a compromise between maintaining koi in the excellent conditions provided by a clay pond and the koi keeper’s need for clear water.
• The health, vitality and colour of koi kept in a koi pond are likely to deteriorate from the superb condition they exhibit in a natural clay pond.
Consequently, there is a real need to provide koi with the nutrition and water quality that will ‘close the gap’ between the compromised conditions koi may experience in a koi pond and the ideal environment of a natural clay pond. Recognising this problem, and the need to reduce the hazards of keeping koi in a koi pond by returning them to the superior conditions of a clay pond, the objectives for developing a new range of koi foods and pond products were clear.
The Objectives
To develop a range of products designed to duplicate the key beneficial factors that enhance the health, growth and colour of koi when grown in a ‘natural’ Japanese clay pond, and to make these available to koi keepers for the long-term benefit of their koi.
The Research
The development process naturally involved research in Niigata, Japan, the home of the world’s finest koi, seeking the opinions and experience of some of Japan’s leading professional koi farmers. In particular, research focussed on how koi keepers overseas could best maintain the superb health, growth and colour that is exhibited in the freshly harvested, high grade koi produced in Niigata, Japan. It soon became apparent that the areas of nutrition and water quality were the key environmental differences between a clay pond environment and that of a typical koi pond, being likely to cause a deterioration in the health and condition of koi. Furthermore, through additional related research, supplementary factors were highlighted as significant in the enhancement of koi health, vitality and colour. The results of the research and the recommendations of koi farmers from Niigata, Japan, have been incorporated into the appropriately named ‘Nishikoi Niigata’ range of koi foods and pond products. ‘Created with the koi breeders of Niigata’.
Typical Analysis:
Ingredients:
Propolis, Maize Gluten, Wheatgerm, Rice, Fish Meal, Maize, Fish Oil, Nishi-Clay, Nishi-Guard, Colourants, Spirulina, Astaxanthin and Canthaxanthin, Antioxidants.
Available Sizes:
Pack Size Pellet Size
420g Small, Medium
780g Small, Medium
1350g Small, Medium, Large
3kg Medium, Large
5kg Medium, Large
10kg Medium, Large
