Wettstein's Sturgeon Food - All Season, sinking, 5 kg 4.5mm pellet size (sold out)

Wettstein's Sturgeon Food - All Season, sinking, 5 kg

Wettstein's Sturgeon Food is our sturgeon food line for year-round use. It is a high-quality, sinking food. To provide sturgeon with optimal nutrition, food specifically developed for sturgeon must be used. The sturgeon food consists of high-quality fish meals, proteins, and carbohydrates, supplemented with essential micronutrients (vitamins, minerals, and trace elements). The optimal feeding amount for sturgeon is 1% of their body weight per day.

Since sturgeon have an inferior mouth (except for Beluga sturgeon and Paddlefish), they only take their food from the bottom of the pond, so we feed sinking food. The food has a strong inherent smell, which resembles the fish's natural diet (insect larvae, worms, mollusks). Sturgeon should be fed as often as possible throughout the day in small amounts, as they completely ignore food that has been in the pond for longer than 1 hour. Generally, sturgeon should always be fed in the same spot and on a clean pond bottom.

If sturgeon are kept with koi, the koi should always be adequately fed first at the water surface, otherwise, they would eat the sturgeon's food. If this is the case, feeding must be done in the dark, as sturgeon are more nocturnal. When keeping large koi, the sturgeon should also be large enough accordingly. Another option would be to use a PVC pipe, which helps transport the food past the koi directly to the bottom of the water body.