MICROBE-LIFT MLLSPLG Sinking Fish Food Pellets for Ponds, Water Gardens, and Fountains, for Live Goldfish and Koi, 5.75 Pounds

My large koi fish love it!

I am so glad to find a bit larger size fish food that does sink. The first few days I had to break them smaller to convince my fish that they are food (the former pellets were tiny), but now they eat them. Turtle loves them too... My goldfish are 4-6" tip to tail.

This food has been valuable in feeding one of our koi that has trouble getting to the surface to eat. I have had no problem with it sinking to the bottom when I soak it in a jar of water for five minutes before feeding. My other koi enjoy it also, once they have finished their floating food and after the compromised koi has had his fill. No problems with it clouding my pond's water, either.

My koi and goldfish seem to like it. Most of the first handful I threw into the pond floated across the water surface into the filter. Now I either throw it with force onto the pond surface, toss it on the special spot where the water swirls a long time, or toss it in under the waterfall so it will sink.

I originally purchased floating fish pellet food (different brand) which quickly made me realize that was a bad idea with a water level skimmer that quickly gobbles up the fish food before the fish have time to eat it. To get around this I had to shut off the pump which was a pain in the butt cause half the time I would forget to turn it back on. Low and behold I see on Amazon they sell SINKING fish pellets specific for my type of pond set up...genius! Well at least I thought so right up until the new fish pellets arrived and I used them for the first time. Low and behold the SINKING fish pellets did not sink (at all), not a single pellet fell to the bottom of the pond, not even after 5-10 min of sitting in the water! How do you sell something advertised as a SINKING pellet that does not sink! Big waste of money and time waiting for this fish food to arrive for it to completely fail its intended purpose. I guess now I have plenty of FLOATING fish pellets to last me a while.

It was tough to find good high quality sinking food for those koi and hi-fin sharks in my pond that won't come to the surface. Most koi food seems to be the floating type. I actually mix this in with some floating food and get a 50/50 mix. That way the bottom loving fish can still get their fill too. Now my pond is a swimming pool for fish so I don't have rocks or plants in the bottom. This mean sinking food does get all eaten. Another positive point is this food did not cloud the water at all - of course it never lasted that long anyway since the fish really liked the flavor. You might want to keep that in mind if you get this food since if you have rocks or plants sinking food might not be best. Still, I like the ingredients and high quality of this food and will be ordering more.

Needed a food for my koi that I could feed without training them to come to the surface - the raccoons wiped out our previous population and I think the fact that they had learned that food would be there at the surface whenever there was movement there. (For ten years I had fed a food that floats.) I lost 13 koi in two nights and I figure they just served themselves up. Some were well over a foot long and having had them for ten years I was devastated. I replaced seven of them this Spring and have been feeding ONLY this since. As advertised, it sinks immediately so that my koi have not acquired the habit that I used to enjoy (but now realize was the basis of their demise) of coming to the surface to greet me. Instead, the six I have now cruise the bottom excitedly, waiting for their food which sinks promptly - and they've grown from a couple of inches to 8 inches plus! Very happy with this!

Normally I use floating koi food so I can see the fish come up. I have one koi who was injured recently and is missing most of her tail. She can't get to the top so this food was very helpful. Unfortunately they all like it so they try to get to it before she does. I have to be clever and divert them elsewhere as much as possible. But it really helps to keep that fish fed so she can recover