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| VITAMINS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Info supplied by: Koi_man1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vitamins uses and effects | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vitamin A - is important for skin and eyesight, lack of Vit. A will effects on poor growth, haemorrhaging and blindness. To much of goo thing can lead to liver, spleen and skeletal problems | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vitamin E - is important for anti-oxidizing agent in food to stop fats turning rancid, lack of E will experience skeletal disorders, fatty degeneration of the liver and too much of this will lead to clinical disorders. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vitamin K - is important for aiding bloodclotting and lack of K will lead to internal haemorrhaging in the muscle and gut, excessively long bloodclotting and anaemia. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vitamin B1(thiamin) - is important for nerve function, digestions and reproduction, lack of this factor will lead to disturbed swimming behavior, poor coloration, haemorrhaging at fin bases, and paralysis of the fins. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vitamin B2(riboflavin) - is important for assisting the absorption of oxygen in muscle and tissues that have a poor blood supply and lacking in this will lead the formation of blood vessels in the cornea, cataracts, bleeding inside the eyes, sensitivity to light, bleeding from the nostrils and gills, loss of appetite, retarded growth and anaemia. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vitamin B6(pyidoxine) - is important to aids in metabolism of protein and lack of this can be fatal, rapid ventilation of the gills, skittishness, retarded growth, internal haemorrhaging and pop-eyed disease and absence of this has caused high mortalities in koi. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vitamin B12(Cyanocobalamin) - is important in aiding blood cell formation and lacking in this will lead to a possibility of reduction in appetite. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vitamin C - is important in developing of cartilage and collagen and lacking of this will lead to deformed spine and gills and internal haemorrhaging. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pantothenic acid - is important to aids in metabolism of fat and carbohydrates and lacking in this will lead to loss of appetite, abnormal mucus production and gill problems and too much of this will lead to gill filaments become clubbed and fused, leading to respiratory distress. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Choline - is important to aids in metabolism of fat and lacking this will lead to fatty liver degeneration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Folic acid - is important for cell formation lacking in this one will lead to anaemia. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inositol - lacking in this one will lead to ulceration and haemorrhaging in juvenile koi, anorexia, reduced growth and anaemia. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nicotimic acid - is important to aids in growth and lacking this will lead to the opposite which stun in growth. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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