Hally M. Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 I’m new to keeping goldfish and I wanted to ask how do you tell if they’re getting enough food. I have 6 in a 120 and I heard it’s common for them to always beg. How do I tell wether or not they’re being over fed or they’re truly still hungry? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nabokovfan87 Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 What is your food / feeding regimen currently? This might help... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hally M. Posted December 9, 2022 Author Share Posted December 9, 2022 I’ve been feeding Xtreme Spirulina flakes and once a week some blood worms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biotope Biologist Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 Goldfish are constantly hungry. They are natural grazers so on top of feeding flaked food you can drop in some food pucks. They are not picky at all as to what those food pucks are. Also some people will practically give away duckweed. This is a favorite snack of theres. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVoyager31 Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 On 12/8/2022 at 10:50 PM, Hally M. said: I’m new to keeping goldfish and I wanted to ask how do you tell if they’re getting enough food. I have 6 in a 120 and I heard it’s common for them to always beg. How do I tell wether or not they’re being over fed or they’re truly still hungry? I have 8 goldfish in two tanks.. I am trying to get them to grow a TON and show me the absolute best color so I generally feed pretty frequently (more frequently than I’ve seen some forums recommend). I have had some great success though and I feed usually atleast twice daily.. sometimes more if I think they look cute 😂 But overall, I feed twice daily and mix it up on their foods. A few different brands of pellets, frozen foods like brine and bloodworms, repashy gold etc. I don’t usually feed flakes because they generally don’t go for it. Warning on the repashy gold: if they don’t eat it immediately it is a MESS in the water. My goldies are fat and happy! Disregard the green tint in one of the pics, it was before I did an algae overhaul 😜 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colu Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 (edited) I feed my comet goldfish twice a day with a mixture of foods spirulina flakes repashy super gold hikari saki fancy goldfish purple pellets duckweed bugbite goldfish pellets frozen blood worms once a week Edited December 10, 2022 by Colu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hally M. Posted December 10, 2022 Author Share Posted December 10, 2022 Thanks for the suggestions!! For protein packed foods should they be limited to only once a week? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colu Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 On 12/10/2022 at 8:02 AM, Hally M. said: Thanks for the suggestions!! For protein packed foods should they be limited to only once a week? I would limit food like blood worms to no more than twice a week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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