Pond Water Quality
Chemical tests were made daily, on each and every pond, to insure water chemistry remained constant:
8% Oxygen content
Chemical elements of the food testing process were very stable due to the excellence of the Clearwater Filter System. Most of the water quality testing manhours were spent detecting and correcting overfeeding problems caused by manufacturer's recommended feeding frequency.
Much of the daily food recommended was simply being crushed by the fish and expelled through the gills to the bottom of the pond.
Testing involved placing properly sized bedsheets in the bottom of all 16 ponds to measure the amount of un-eaten food. Shocking amounts of ecology polluting waste was found with all brands of fish food.
Koi Fish Observations
Every two weeks each fish was weighed, measured and body shape, fins and color checked.
32 fish started, 30 made it through the year. Two fish in pond #12 died with no apparent disease. Growth ranged from 1/2" to 3" on the remaining 30 fish. Color had diminished an average of approx. 50% while Body Shape showed about 1% distortion. None of the fish were of show quality at the end of one year.
The search for help started with the U.S. Marine Fisheries. To make a long story short, recommendations led Koiman to Georgia State University and Kansas State University.
Results and Records were given to the Universities and they did their own studies which revealed that a High Value Protein diet was needed to enhance color and growth in Koi Fish. In other words the total protein percentage was not as important as the ratio of animal protein to vegetable protein. High Value Protein content of the slime coat was the most important factor in koi food nutrition for healthy koi and pond fish with champion color and optimum growth.
Koi Food "Miracle"
Experiments were conducted using the original 16 ponds and new koi food nutritional facts suggested by the universities.
Koi food ingredients were researched, added or taken out, and fish were monitored until the perfect formulation was finally determined.
Miracle Koi Fish food was evaluated for ultimate total nutritional value, fish health, koi color, growth, pond clarity, water quality, ease of use, feeding frequency and cost per feeding.
Many proprietary products were tried, the final proprietary combination has been patented, copyrighted and trademarked.
Miracle Koi Food is the only koi food that is totally patented.
The only koi food, in one package, that supplies 100% of the High Value Protein nutritional requirements of koi and other pond fish, without adding additional foods or supplements. No other company has reproduced Miracle koi food's formulation of natural, nutritionally unaltered koi and pond fish food.