Is it just goldfish any others that will eat until they go belly up or is it all fish, if its all fish how do they survive in the wild... I have 2 mollies and 7 platys these are the fish I really want to know about. As well as my main question for the other fish that will eat until they die. Please no stupid answers that don't do anything.
2007-01-14 20:26:40 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Fish
Tropical fish do not eat until they die. As for Goldfish, most all of the different types of fancy Goldfish that are in the fish stores are man made and do not exist in the wild.
2007-01-14 22:40:48 · answer #1 · answered by Studly Jim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about which species of fish will or will not eat until they die when in captivity. But in the wild, there is only a limited amount of food. There is not enough for them to overeat, probably. And, usually, the fish's "food" (the smaller fish) are trying to avoid being eaten. Say that a big fish comes up on a school of minnows. By the time it eats just one, the rest of the school has escaped and the big fish has to spend more time searching for more food. Does that seem logical?
2007-01-14 20:43:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It isn;t all fish, There are some fish such as carp that will eat thier own body weight in a day but I think the majority of fish eat only when they are hungry and not just because food is available,
2007-01-14 20:29:32 · answer #3 · answered by surfer_grl_ca 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've never heard of fish eating until they die. The stomach can only handle so much food.
Maybe they eat a lot to last them a couple of days in case they don't get a meal in those couple of days?
You could try searching pet related websites like petsmart.com or something.
2007-01-14 20:36:14 · answer #4 · answered by jaycie685 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-12 11:45:38 · answer #5 · answered by kluesner 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fish only eat too much when they are captive and not sure when the next meal will come.
2007-01-14 20:41:00 · answer #6 · answered by Afi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Eating until they die" is probably nature's response to a general lack of food in the environment where one eats when food is available regardless if hunger is present or not to avoid starvation when food is not available.
2007-01-14 20:38:21 · answer #7 · answered by MT C 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they don't get food that easily in the wild...they really have to work at it.
2007-01-14 22:19:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋