Koi ---HOW TO--- Hand feed your Koi
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2024
- Most people want to feed their Koi by hand and have them hand tame and not have them swim off scared and at hundred miles an hour around the pond.
So here we have my top 3 tips to help you get your fish to feed out of your hand.
1 - Get yourself a Chagoi
These fish are just driven by food and are usually very tame to start, giving you the perfect clam start to get the other Koi in your pond to feed from your hand.
2 - Stand in the same place to feed the fish
Choose a spot by the side of your pond and this will be the only place you feed the fish. Over time they will associate you standing there with food, which when its hot and theyre mad for food will draw them over to you food or no food they will just expect it
3 - Fast the Koi for 24hours
Again best to do in summer months, but if youre still struggling for the fish to trust you, dont feed them for 24hours. Stand in the designated spot, then have your hand in the water and release a few pellets. You may need to do this a few times but their hunger will out way the fear they have.
Hope this helps. if this is something youve been trying to do, or wondered why you fish dont feed from your hand
Let me know how youre getting on :-)
Thanks
Andy
Yeah my big Chag is always first followed by the smaller chags and Karashigoi when I'm feeding them (hand or otherwise!). I usually cut an orange in half and chuck both halves into the pond. I leave it for a few hours and both halves are hollowed out and on the pond bottom. Also put a lettuce in the pond. Again there's not much left after a couple of hours. Processed peas, sweetcorn, cooked mussels, prawns, fish sticks, honey cheerios.... Like yours at these temps they will eat whatever you are prepared to give them... Love the videos...
Yeah may try fruit!
Nice to see your new Showa mixing it up with the others now! He's a lovely koi, love all your recent purchases. 😀👍
Cheers, yeah showa been a bit slow on the feed but last few days hes been on it and properly settled in.
Got to wait till the wife goes out so i can rush out and sneak a chag in the pond, if I get rumbled I'm blaming you..😂😂..👍
Do it, I'll.take one for the team, it's worth it!
Definitely agree what you said about getting a chag mine would not hand feed until I got one and now the majority of my koi do eat from my hand,every koi keeper needs a chag 👍
Yeah they're crazy characters for sure, weird how they just add a calmness to a pond. Nice one
The new lovely Showa got brave quickly. Great tips thanks. Cheers.
Yeah bit shy to start but the others showed the way lol
My daughter cuts up oranges into quarters then just holds them at the side of the pond and fish all come to have a nibble. Andy the new Shoes is looking great, settled in well, was a bit surprised that Stu let it go... looking forward to the next video.
Hey sod Stu, its mine now lol. Mine never been into fruit but I may try it again
Just ordered 3 chags 2 showa and kohaku of Adam Byers. Great guy .all tosai at about 22 cm .wouldn't of known about him if it wasn't for you..thank you for making me spend 400 squid lol cheers mate Gareth
Haha awesome fish he has hope they do well for you
Aup mate where do you get your tamodine from.
Absolutely spot on Andy, good upload, glad the newbie is doing well and not so shy now. Have a great week, watch ya Saturday. Oh I'm on ya blog too.
Cheers, yeah showa was bit slow settling in but now know how it works lol
Hiya Andy will good video can’t beat that feeding out your hand mine are starting to feed out my hand only on my late feed about 9 ish but always come to the corner every time if I’m quiet lol and not moaning about something 😂
Haha it's nice when they welcome you over time it becomes just normal for them, unless your moaning scares um away lol
Nice simple tips, only thing I found with feeding at the same spot is smaller fish are pushed by the bigger ones and in some ponds may get pushed out
Yeah, that's why I switched to sinking and floating the shy ones or small ones get something lol
I lost my kajaku this week😔, I know its off subject but would appreciate you taking a look at my video and giving an opinion or maybe your koi friends 👍
Grate advice I have 2 that hand feed and the rest are getting there by basically doing what you said same spot same time 👍
Yeah a bit of competition helps too, patience is the key really
Just finished my koi pond build cant wait to do this! Been looking for a chagoi last few weeks, you've got some amazing g fish 👍
Thanks 😎 Seriously the first Chagoi changed the pond massively, well worth getting one
Brill! A chag will definatly been my next addition 👍
Picking my chagoi up today 👍 cheers for the tips
@@tomlynch7689 hopefully it's a typical chag, you'll be moaning about feeding it lol
Great video mate new showa looking great
Cheers yeah it's awesome I love it
Looking good mate love the New one 👍
Yeah I love it looks great in there with others
Love this video, thank you x
my secret is whenever I feed them I place the koi food in my hands that is why they are get used to it if you see in my videos all my koi fish are tame and loves to eat by my hand he he they even suck my fingers
Great video some of mine will take food from my hand but a couple dont.
Yeah some just dont feel happy about it
What Piggies, Love it!
Piggies is correct, I'm sure they'd feed 24/7 given the chance lol
Can i make my fish became friendly again? Because my fish already live about 4 years
I have a chag and an Ochiba both approx 35cm now that eat from my hand , but because I work different hours on a 3 week cycle it’s hard to regular feeds so I’ve fitted a auto feeder , little n often , mine don’t really go mad for food but I was told it’s because my pond is under stocked for its size , so not sure , but they are growing 👍
Ps CT added today 👍
Good lad on CT! Yeah maybe competition being low so maybe they know theres no rush for food
My young fish will hand feed the ochiba helped a lot my chag is tiny but still gets in there when theres food to be had.
Great, yeah Ochiba being half chag have a lot of the traits needed. Always love to see tiny chags feeding from hand
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Check my pond build out if you have time 👌👍
Mine love Crab sticks and prawns out of my hand
Yeah mine are suckers for prawns not so much fish sticks but they'll.have it lol
Once you get one to hand feed it makes it a lot easier
Yeah you just need to crack that first one rest are easy
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Aqua source 50/50, did a vid on it a few weeks back 😉
I bought a 35cm matsuba for my first fish for my koi which is 80-3ft deep but its just swims along the bottom. I throw in some food today and it hasn't come up maybe a few more days before it comes up
Some fish just take a while to settle in new environment, keep an eye on it, stress of the move probably made it moody.
Cracking video Andy, we are making good progress handfeeding here.
Patience, more patience, and Chags lol glad you're getting there
Nice update fella. 👍🏻
Cheers dude 😎
What food are you using now andy? What size pellets?
Aqua sorce 50/50 6mm. Did a vid on it last month 😉
Chagois and saragois are definitely the easiest fish to hand feed
Yeah true! Its just in them to feed at all.costs haha
@@koidiaries don’t forget karashigoi too :)
Can you help me please i have 2 fish that are bully's when feeding. Flying over the top of other's and butting other's
Try either a floating and sinking mix or even just a sinking food. After the initial excitement when food comes in they'll be heading to pond floor to eat. Hth
Do you leave air on 24/7
Yup, well.sometimes it's off to view them but it is literally on all the time
I got to get a chag I am after one just trying to find that right one good tips there Andy must say all the koi looking very nice 👍
Yeah get one! Thanks yeah all looking great at the moment :-)
On the head with the chag they are so greedy get one of them and the rest soon cotton on to how it works to get the most food and come in as well her indoors loves them so I have 4 but if you ever need a scrape you can get it at the pond side with ease so the net seldom go's in the pond. Thanks for filming
My mrs says she'd like me to have a full pond of chags lol. And yeah greedy is an understatement with chags lol
Or feed mussels, mine go mental for them!!!!
Mine not too keen on them funnily enough
@@koidiaries I feed pellets to mine, NT Labs probiotic at the mo, which the fish eat but they don't get that excited!, if I give them a little bit of sweetcorn (unsalted) or cooked mussels they go mental, I can throw a load in and they will NOT hit the bottom!!!!!!!......... Great video as always.