Do goldfish eat tadpoles?
Some may some may not. I have a number of koi and goldfish in my outdoor ponds and yet I have lots of tadpoles and then frogs. If you are feeding your goldfish properly high proteins and low fats and simple carbs, you fish will leave the tadpoles alone. As far as their Tactile organ, fish don’t just use a tactile organ for food. It is used for everything from navagation, fleaing from danger and breeding. If you are worried, be sure to feed your goldfish a minimum of 3 times per day. You can supplement their diet with things like Lettuce, mustard greens, turnip greens, collard greens, spinach, peas, endive, seaweed, cukes, kale, chard, broccoli, lima beans, green beans, etc. and feed aquatic plants (e.g. duckweed, azolla, salvenia, etc) or hair algae daily. For their Carotenoids which are a family of pigments the fish can’t make themselves and are obtained as part of the diet. These pigments result in red, yellow and orange colors. Fish have cells called chromataphores. Those cells conv
