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So, goldfish are literally the dustbins of the fish keeping world. They will eat just about
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anything you put in the tank, but just because they will eat anything doesn't necessarily mean
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they should. Let's talk about the best foods for goldfish. Hello friends, welcome back to the
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channel. If you're new here, my name is Richard and I'm the owner of the fishkeepinganswers.com
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website. It's a site that has hundreds of articles on goldfish, tropical fish, puffer fish, guppies
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you name it, we cover pretty much every subject. So one question I'm frequently asked is, what is
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It's the best food we can feed to our goldfish. And as goldfish owners, we're pretty lucky
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There are dozens and dozens of different foods we can feed to our goldfish
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most of which are pretty good quality, fairly reasonably priced, and our goldfish will happily eat them
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Now, I like to feed my goldfish a fairly wide variety of food. Flakes, pellets, frozen, live
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I like to try and feed them a different type of food each time I feed them
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I feed them three or four times a day, maybe flake in the morning, pellets in the afternoon
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a bit of frozen food in the evening. But I've got some of my foods here so I can show you what I
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feed my goldfish. So one of my favourite foods that I like to feed my fish is the Tetra Pro
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crisps. These are fabulous. They are fairly good quality ingredients. The fish love them
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they're eating them right now. They don't tend to mess the water up and I find the goldfish
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relatively and very quickly and whether they are the small fancy goldfish or the much larger ones these work really well Another food I enjoy feeding to my goldfish are the hikari floating pellets
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I know there are a lot of people who don't necessarily agree with feeding goldfish floating food
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They claim it gives them swim bladder problems. I've never had an issue. I've been keeping goldfish for 30 years and I've pretty much used hikari floating foods for most of that time
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and I very, very rarely suffer with swim bladder issues. These ones I'm using at the moment happen to be the Aranda Gold variety
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Hikari do many, many different types of food and in my experience they're much of a muchness
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Good quality ingredients, the fish readily eat them and they seem to be good at enhancing the colours and putting the weight on
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I also like to feed my goldfish a fair quantity of frozen foods
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This one happens to be brine shrimp. I just drop a couple of cubes in, the fish happily peck at it and eat it as it defrosts
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I feed frozen brine shrimp, blood worm, mysis shrimp. There are many, many different foods out there
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Tube effects worms, frozen tube effects worms they eat a lot of. And they're convenient. You keep them in the freezer
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Whenever you want to feed them, you pop a couple of cubes out, put the pack back in the freezer and the fish do really well on them
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Now that my fish are getting larger in this particular tank, I feed less flake food, but this is another food I've found to be really good
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Yes, it says tropical mix, but truth be told, it's more or less the same
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there not a great variety If you feeding a mixture of foods giving them tropical flakes as opposed to golfe flakes is not going to affect them at all They be quite happy Now another food that I
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like to feed to my goldfish, which is a little more expensive but is worth it in my opinion
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is the rapashi gel food. This comes as a powder. You mix it with boiling water, you let it set
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you cut it into cubes and you can store that in the fridge or in the freezer and then every couple
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of days, every couple of days excuse me, I drop one or two cubes in and the goldfish peck at it
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It holds together really well in the water and as they peck at it and bite it they bite small chunks
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off. It takes these guys probably about half an hour to get through a couple of cubes. This mix
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happens to be the grub pie. They also do a community blend, they do a super gold for goldfish
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The ingredients are more or less the same. This is good quality food and if you feed it to your
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a goldfish it's not gonna matter which blend you go for I'll put links down in the description for all of these foods so you can check them out for yourself
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now of course you can also get freeze-dried foods and live foods neither of which I happen
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to have with me at the moment I do occasionally feed freeze-dried bloodworms to my goldfish and
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whenever I'm at my local store if they have some live food I will pick up live bloodworm or daphnia
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or whatever they've typically got in stock. These guys will eat more or less anything
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And as long as we give them good variety and we're mixing the food up, they'll do really well
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And there are other things we can feed our goldfish Duckweed they relish duckweed If you have duckweed in any of your tanks or or even in your ponds outside putting a scoop in every once every three or four days
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they'll relish that and it duckweed helps keep them regular it's good for their digestive system
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to to consume a certain quantity of duckweed when some of my other tanks get duckweed in i can't get
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rid of it i may take one of the smaller goldfish and put them on duckweed patrol they'll sit in
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that tank for a few days, clear it of duckweed, then they return back to the main tank. In a similar
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vein, frozen peas make another excellent food for goldfish and they also help keep the goldfish
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regular. Typically I defrost my peas and I squash them in my fingers first and then feed them rather
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than dropping a whole pea in, but often they will just consume the peas whole and they'll swallow
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them down whole and they digest them and it's really good, good roughage for the fish. Now if
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