What type of food do goldfish eat?
Depending how far a goldfish was shipped, how long it was at the pet shop and what it was feed at the pet shop you may need to take special care in feeding it the first few weeks. It may have been on reduced or no food to make shipping easier. The pet shop may have feed their fish reduced diets to reduce the amount of tank cleaning they had to do. In any case start out by feeding light easy to digest food and slowly over a period of two weeks allow the fish to adjust to a normal diet. If you feed pellets or other hard food soak it to soften them prior to feeding. Hard dry pellets absorb water from the digestive track. The absorbtion can cause the fish to float near the surface become very sick. A lot of what goes worng with gancy goldfish seems to be linked to dry foods both pellets and falkes. If goldfish are feed food in more natural moister forms they will survive longer and live a more healty life. If you must feed dry foods moisten if prior to feeding. Even after soaking pellets a
