Goldfish Food

Goldfish are a very rewarding addition to a large aquarium with tons of personality and should be rewarded with high-quality foods. They benefit from a varied, well-balanced diet of quality proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals to keep them healthy. Since goldfish will eat just about anything, one might settle for feeding their goldfish just any food they grab from the shelf, but high quality, goldfish specific flakes, granules or pellets are essential to maintaining their health.

Goldfish will do best being provided a diet consisting of 30% protein and feeding a goldfish food slightly higher than 30% protein to juveniles is beneficial to their development and health. Although goldfish are very convincing at looking like they are hungry, overfeeding them can be detrimental to their health as well as potentially negatively affecting your water quality. Only offer goldfish what they can consume in 1-2 minutes, once to twice a day.