GoldFish? How much do they eat?

[MajorDamage]

When I saw the title of this post I was thinking that goldfish song to. "Heres our jingle for goldfish, we wrote a song for goldfish, thedelightsom little cracker that smiles back until you bite their heads off" or somin like that. hehe.

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[Rrok]

I have a funny story about our goldfish. Hehe. When my little sister was 5, she played that game at the local fair where you throw the ping-pong balls into the little mini fish bowls to win one, well it turns out luck was on her side that day and she finally won one (After burning $10 of my mom's money. Heck whatever makes her happy.) Anyways, the lady running the stand put the fish into a bag with a twisty and gave it to my sister. About ten minutes later the poor thing croaked . So crushed, my little sister asked if she could go back and get another. So after walking all the way back to the other side of the fairgrounds my sister "returned" her old fishie for a new one. And what happened? This one croaked too! So we went back again to get another fish, and my sister said a little prayer so that it would live a long healthy fish life. Well the day had gone by and the fish looked happy as ever in his little baggie.Right as we were about to leave my little sister asked if we could ride the ferris wheel, my mom said "yes" and we all waited in line to ride it. When we got to the top my little sister dropped this poor fish off of the edge. Luckily it lived and we gave it the name lucky because it survived the impact unscathed!!! To this day it happily swims in it's bowl living a perfect fishie life.

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[Magadeth]

I spent many years as an aquatics tech at a large pet chain.

The best advice, if you have a small bowl or 10 gallon tank with little filtration is to err on the side of underfeeding. 3-4 flakes a day is enough to sustain a small goldfish. If you want to feed it more than that, it will grow faster, but you will have to clean the tank more often.

When you do clean the tank, dont change all the water at once, dont change the water and the filter at the same time, and dont use water straight out of the tap.

There will be bacteria that are very important in breaking down the fishes waste and if you overclean the tank, you will remove too much of this bacteria.

Good things to get to take care of your fish include - a siphon vacuum to clean the gravel and do waterchanges with. Ph buffer will keep the ph of the water in a range that your fish will be healthy inwithout the need to do tests and use ph up and down. A 5 gallon bucket can be used as a pace to add the buffer and allow chlorine to evaporate from your tap water, before you add it to the tank. A good filter(I recomend Aquaflows if they still make them)

Dont add more fish into the tank until it has been running for at least a month as you need to "cycle the tank" wich is just allowing the bacteria wich break down fish poo to build up.

[adam68c]

Hey cphillip I got a question for you. If you have a 15 by 15 pond and you put a bass in it, it wont get very big. In fact it probally wont ever get bigger than a couple pounds right? And is the same thing true for a small stream? My dad has a couple fish pounds where he raises catfish and talapia. I have an agument with my friends. They say I should throw in a bass and let it get big and enter it in a tournement.I say that the fish wont be able to get very big since it lives in such a small pond. Is this true?