2007-04-22 17:20:12 · 10 answers · asked by grayelephant93 1 in Pets ➔ Fish
whenever i go to the market, i forget, so what can i feed my fish in the meantime?
2007-04-22 17:32:43 · update #1
cooked peas (with the skin off), lettuce (not iceberg), spinach, zucchini, oranges, small amounts of cereal, bread, rice
If using fresh greens, blanch or freeze them a short while first to soften them
2007-04-22 17:32:01 · answer #1 · answered by copperhead 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Goldfish Food
2016-10-06 02:13:33 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Twice a day feeding does a tank well. I feed my fish twice a day, when I get up in the morning and then in the evening around dinner time. Your feeding schedule sounds good so I wouldn't make any alteration to the times if that's what works for you. When you feed once a day, I tend to find my fish get a little more aggressive because they're always hungry. Food once ever 24 hours isn't good for anyone. And by feeding at the different times, some fish are more hungry at one time a day than another, so it gives the other fish a chance to step in and get their portion. As for the anount to feed, a little goes a long ways, and it is better to under feed than over feed. Give them what they can eat within a 2-3 minute period. I just take a little pinch of food and crumble it between my fingers when feeding my guppies, and they'll chase it on the water currents, and pick whatever they missed out of the gravel later. Goldfish will pick at the gravel also to find dropped food. Water clarity is the harder trick to clear. I am also currently suffering from another bout of cloudy water in my tank and am looking for cures. If the water is greenish cloudy, it could be free floating algae. There are products you can buy on market o kill the algae, as it is very difficult to clear otherwise. If the water is more whitish cloudy, it could be a bacteria bloom. Again, there are clear water products on market you can get for it. Myself, I've stepped up my water changes and that seems to help. Instead of doing one water change once a week, I've begun doing 2 water changes a week. It's not prefect, but it does take out some of the excess filth.
2016-03-18 05:40:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Bread crumbs. But only for a short amount of time. Buy fish flakes as soon as you can. Some brands are $1 and for goldfish, that's good enough!
2007-04-22 17:28:38 · answer #4 · answered by shadedtint 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
cooked peas is good, as someone suggested. It doesn't take long- just put a few in a small dish with water and microwave them to cook. Then pinch them out of their skins. They naturally break into two halves. I'd cut them a bit smaller even than that though. Then feed them to the fishies. Peas are highly recommended actually.
Also you can use babyfood to make fish food. Check out kokosgoldfish.com for "recipes".
2007-04-22 18:02:20 · answer #5 · answered by Michelle M 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Surprisingly, you can make your own fish food. People do it all the time. But the effort out weighs the results. You can mix different meals from a nutritional store and ground it up, add water, make it paper thin and then let it dry over night.
REALITY CHECK:
Companies have invested millions of dollars on creating food already why fight the system just go and buy a jar of food. Even the supermarket sell it.
2007-04-22 17:36:55 · answer #6 · answered by Jose R 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
lettuce. but they need fish food. go to the pet store and buy goldfish food.
2007-04-22 17:24:10 · answer #7 · answered by Shell 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Little pieces of lettuce and cabbage.Thats about it.Goldfish food is real cheap ,so it wouldnt hurt your wallet.
2007-04-22 17:30:35 · answer #8 · answered by ♠ Oscillate Wildly ♠ 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, you cannot feed a goldfish human food. There is godfish food in a pet store which does not cost much. So feed it goldfish food PLEASE!!
2007-04-22 17:26:46 · answer #9 · answered by sun_beam61 3 · 0⤊ 5⤋
fed my fish whey protein powder for a month. He beat up the other fish.
2016-02-03 09:58:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋