New products - Garden ponds: Lots of new ideas for the garden pond

The trend towards garden ponds has long been encouraged by the industry, with a stream of new products coming onto the market each year. Many suppliers have now gone in for greater specialisation of the technical products and accessories marketed hitherto for the pond, with special types of food, enhanced-performance pumps and useful pond protection products being just a few examples.
Food for koi
The JBL aquatics firm in Neuhofen markets a range of interesting food for koi in the garden pond: the “Koi Fun Snack” will have fish eating out of your hand in a short time and yet provides professional nutrition for thekoi. The snacks complement the koi’s diet with valuable vitamins and vital ingredients. “Koi delikat” contains dried Asian silkworms and was developed in collaboration with Japanese koi breeders.
Fun Snacks for koi contain valuable vitamins and vital ingredients.
The high content of proteins and high-grade fat with polyunsaturated fatty acids provides the energy for healthy growth of the koi, according to JBL.
The special koi pellets come in threea categories to cater for different sizes of fish.
The koi food range has also been changed, with the three types of special koi pellets coordinated to fish size categories: “JBL Koi mini” is for young koi 10-20 cm in size, “JBL Koi midi” caters for fish measuring 15-35 cm and “JBL Koi maxi” is for large koi measuring over 30 cm. JBL states that the pellets are perfectly suited to the nutritional requirements of each group.
Tetra of Melle has extended its range to include the premium food “Tetra Pond Koi Sticks Energy” and the growth food “TetraPond Koi Sticks Junior” as well as the familiar koi foodsticks. “TetraPond Koi Sticks Energy” are floating foodsticks for koi with a body length of over 25 cm. Unsaturated fatty acids ensure greater vitality, according to Tetra, while biologically active colour enhancers maintain the brilliant natural colours of the fish. The sticks are also suitable for building up reserves of strength ahead of the cold months as well as for strengthening the defence systems of the fish swiftly following the winter resting period.
“TetraPond Koi Sticks Energy“ are floating foodsticks for all koi of over 25 cm in length.
“TetraPond Koi Sticks Junior“, on the other hand, is a growth food developed to meet the requirements of young koi between 10 and 25 cm in length. Vitamin C increases the koi’s natural defences and thus its resistance levels – and the biological ratio of nutrients…