What food for Goldfish
The Hikari Goldfish Pellets is suitable for all fancy Goldfish. The Hikari Goldfish Pellets contain all the nutrition required to promote a long and healthy life for your Goldfish.Goldfish are naturally very greedy fish and can easily be overfed, overfeeding goldfish is one of the biggest causes of death.
- Includes all the nutrition your smaller goldfish or koi fry need to grow strong and look great.
- High in stabilized vitamin C which promotes resistance to stress and immunity to infectious disease.
- A floating pellet which allows you to easily monitor and adjust the amount of food fed to avoid over-feeding and never clouds your water.
- To enhance coloration, supplement daily Hikari Staple baby feeding with Hikari Gold baby.
We would not recommend flake food for Goldfish. Eating flakes requires the fish to spend a lot of time at the water surface increasing the amount of air which could be swallowed by the fish. It is mainly for this reason that pellets are thought to be better for goldfish, for whom swallowing air can contribute to swim bladder problems.
Goldfish are very greedy fish and will keep looking for food even when they don’t need it. Fish, especially goldfish, are programmed to gobble up everything they can, far more than they need in-fact. As a consequence it is very easy to overfeed fish.
Measure out food carefully, do not use a ‘pinch’. There are no exact rules for feeding fish but as a rough guide:
2-5 cm goldfish - 4 small pellets each per day.
5-10 cm goldfish - 6 small pellets each per day.
We only recommend Hikari food as we have extensively tested a variety of foods and believe this is the best available.
