What do goldfish eat in their natural habitat?
Marcus, London UK • Goldfish are known to eat both candy floss and toffee apples in their natural enviroment, the fairground. The fairground gypsy goldfish, as they are also known, live a quiet and peaceful life until they are captured or ‘won’. When this happens the new captors or owners feed them on a diet of flakey goldfish food, instead of the more nutritious candy floss/toffee apple diet, and this is why your goldfish will only last a few days. Graeme Cavanagh, Glasgow, UK • Goldfish are a specially-bred ornamental variety of carp and thus would eat naturally-occurring carp food in the wild, such as insects, tadpoles and so forth. Fairground goldfish can live for years and grow to astounding proportions, and like all carp can learn to feed from a human hand. (Watch out for the teeth.) They can also be released into the wild and will happily interbreed with local carp, losing their conspicuous colouring after a few generations. The wild lake carp near here will crowd to the bank fo
