well I want to feed him a lot so he gets really big and then I can throw him in my pond instead of my small fish tank.he is around 2 inches long and very small. he is eating goldfish flakes and worms strangely and is in a tank with 2 other sunnies. can I feed him a lot so he gets bigger or what?
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Don't overfeed! You will kill your fish rather than helping him grow. Your fish's eventual size depends on three things:
1) What type of goldfish is he -- specifically does he have a single or double tail? Single tails (commons, comets, shubunkins) can reach over 2 feet long; fancy types with double tails (telescope eyes, moors, orandas, etc.) usually max out at under a foot.
2) He needs enough room to grow NOW, even though he is small. The bigger you want him to get, the more room you should provide. 15-20 gallons is minimum if you want him to grow fast, and he shouldn't be crowded in with a lot of other fish.
3) You need to keep his water clean and keep him feeling secure. That means a strong, good quality filter in his tank, weekly partial water changes, a relatively quiet room, and a small quantity of high quality goldfish-specific food (different from tropical flakes.
Good luck with him!
Feed him just a pinch once a day. He'll only grow as big as his enviromnent. For example, if he were in a 55 gallon tank he would grow bigger than in a 10 gallon tank. Over feeding will kill him.
Acording to the fish expert, Dr. Seuss, your fish will grow 4 ounces for every 6 ounces of food it eats. It will never stop growing either
It's not how much you feed him, it's how big a home he has. Little bowl, little fish, big pond, big fish. I throw my little ones straight in my pond and they get big fast.
If you feed him a lot he will become bloated and die. We wouldn't want that to happen would we?
if you want a big fish get an iridescent shark. I got one for $3 last year that was 4 inches long and now he is almost a foot. PS they can grow to 3 feet long if you give them enough room
Feeding him too much is only going to constipate him and make you need to change the tank water more frequently. If you give him two feedings a day of what he can eat in 2-3 minutes, he'll grow plently. Rather than feed only flakes, give him a variety of other foods as well. They'll eat worms, bloodworms, fresh greens that have either cooked or frozen for a few minutes to soften them. The better the variety in his diet, the better chance for him to get what he needs nutritionally. See this link for other foods you can give him: http://thegab.org/articles/goldfishnutri...
Goldfish do not grow to the size of their environment. Instead they become stunted, where the outside stops growing but the internal organs continue to increase in size. This will only lead to a premature death.
he will grow to fit the size of the aquarium you have him in. if he is in 10 gallons he wont get much bigger than 2". you can feed him all you want but that will just make him fat -- not make him grow. depending on the kind of goldfish he is if you put him in the pond he would grow to about 8-10 inches.
Feed a pinch of food twice a day.
And the fantailed goldfish grow 8-10 inches and the single tailed goldfish grow about 14 inches.
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