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Do goldfish need less food when they are older than 1 year?

April 26, 2017food goldfish Older year

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Do goldfish need less food when they are older than 1 year?

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Dear Neale, or whoever is reading this one. Thank you very much for your useful information and sensible suggestions. Just to remove your worry on a point: I live in a relatively warm climate (Melbourne, Australia) and the tank is heated by the lights and the surrounding air. I only added the crossocheilus siamensis when I realized that the temperature never drops below about 23.5 and is usually slightly higher than that. I have a heater in there, just in case, but I doubt it ever turns on, except possibly in the dead of night in winter. My problem is much more how to keep the tank cool in summer. I start to worry when the water gets near 29 or 30 degrees (this when the outside temperature is 38 or more and we can’t keep our unairconditioned flat cooler than about 30), but actually the goldfish seemed fine this summer, despite my worry. I use all the tricks I know: loads of aeration, moving the cover so there is airflow over the top of the water, keeping the lig