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How to Keep Goldfish in Winter and the Right Water Temperature
As temperatures drop in winter, lively goldfish grow sluggish, and safe overwintering is not easy for the small ones. Here are winter goldfish tips on feeding and keeping them warm.
What Beginners Should Know About Keeping Goldfish
More people keep pet fish, but beginners have many questions at first. Here are key points for keeping goldfish and other pet fish, to help you raise them better.
What Do Goldfish Eat? Goldfish Feeding Habits
Goldfish do best on live animal foods (cleaned and disinfected) or balanced flakes/pellets, fed 1–3 times daily with portions finished in 10–30 minutes. Adjust timing to water temperature and never overfeed — a goldfish tolerates fasting better than bloating.
How often can goldfish be fed?
Pet goldfish are best fed 1-2 times daily, twice for juveniles and once for adults. New tanks with unestablished water can be fed every 3-5 days. Adjust timing and amount by season and water quality.
What can goldfish eat besides fish food?
Beyond commercial feed, goldfish can eat live foods like daphnia, bloodworms and earthworms, plus vegetables, fruit, algae and moss. Feed twice a day — morning and afternoon — only as much as they finish in about 10 minutes, and cut back in winter when the water is cold.
Calico Long-tailed Comet Goldfish
The Calico Long-tailed Comet Goldfish is a variety of goldfish belonging to the comet (grass) type. It shares the habits of goldfish, but its distinctive shape and coloration are loved by aquarists.
Azuma Goldfish
The Azuma goldfish is a goldfish variety. Unusually, it does not show its pretty pattern at first; the color appears slowly months after hatching. Its habits are the same as other goldfish.
Red and White Comet Goldfish
The Red and White Comet Goldfish is a type of grass-goldfish mainly distributed in China. Because the grass-goldfish resembles a koi, it is also the most ancient kind of goldfish. It is not hard to keep and is a common, easy goldfish variety.
Goldfish
The goldfish (Carassius auratus), native to China, is the world's oldest ornamental fish with more than 125 varieties. This guide covers its taxonomy, body and head shapes, care, tank environment, and feeding.
Iron-wrapped Gold Wen Pompon
The Iron-wrapped Gold Wen Pompon is a variety of goldfish and shares the same habits as goldfish. Its coloration arises from a mutation during the color change of the blue-black Wen Pompon, so the color is very hard to stabilize.