fish food

[Scott]

Hi, I am from the UK, new to this forum and looking to see if anyone can please give me an anwer to this question. My son has a black moor and I was told that feeding it fish sticks would be better than flakes, the make I was advised to buy were Interpet gold, when they are fed to my son's fish they are broken in two and when my son has the two bits in his hand there are very small insects crawling out " is this normal " as I say I am new to this so I hope I am not being to stupid.
Thanks Scott.

 

[macky1]

that does not sound normal at all

i would stick to the flake

i read somewere that fish like orandas and blackmoors can
suffer inbalance problems when eating floating sticks

are they in a pond or tank?

macky 8)

 

[Inchworm]

Hi scott and welcome to the forum!

No, I don't think the fish food you have should normally have bugs in it. (This is not what they mean when they say "live food." ) I think what happened is that you might have gotten a package that was on the shelf too long and went bad. Have you ever had a package of macaroni get bugs? This is the same thing. I've had a similar situation with a box of catfood once. I suggest you take it back to the dealer for a refund.

The size of the goldfish will have some influence on the form of food you feed it. If it is small, stick to the flakes. If it is larger, say 3" or 4" long, you could give it the flakes or you might want to try granules. These are more substantial and the thinking is that they will swallow less air when they eat them.

Watch the fish's feces if you feed it a larger size food than flakes (and if it is in a tank where you can observe them). I have had a problem with large pieces of food passing through the fish undigested. This, of course, does the fish no good.

I'm glad you've come to the forum and hope you stick around. Many of us have started out in the hobby with one goldfish and have gone on to enjoy many years of pleasure with tropicals.

 

[Scott]

Thanks a lot guys you have been a great help, I will take the food back to the shop tomorrow and try and get it granules.
My son's fish is about 3-4 inches long and is in a tank, it is to cold where I am in Scotland through most of the year to keep it in a pond ( well I think? ).
We had a point after feeding it flakes where it did have an inbalance problem and thats when I was advised to feed it sticks.
Anyway thanks again, Scott.

 

[spanky_pp_]

bugs in fish food... no no no.. write and complain! somethings going wrong somewhere.