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Cobalt Aquatics Ultra Goldfish Color Pellets Slow Sinking Fish Food |
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Hikari Saki Fancy Goldfish Fish Food for Premium Grade or Fancy Goldfi |
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Aqueon PRO Foods Revitanew Formula Fish Food |
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1. Cobalt Aquatics Ultra Goldfish Color Pellets Slow Sinking Fish Food
Cobalt Aquatics has created an excellent quality, high protein goldfish food with this formula. Five of the first eight ingredients are marine proteins like prawns, whole sardines, and whole anchovies. The other three of the first eight ingredients are marine plants like kelp and spirulina. This food also includes probiotics and prebiotics for digestive health. These pellets are sinking pellets, but they sink slowly, so whether your fish prefer eating at the water’s surface or below it, their preference can be met with this food. This food supports bright colors in goldfish and its high-quality ingredients will not dirty the tank water if fed as directed.
- High-quality marine proteins and marine plants are the first ingredients
- Pellets sink slowly
- Probiotics and prebiotics support digestive health
- Color-enhancing formula
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| Prawns, Dried Kelp, Dried Seaweed, Jumbo Squid Meal, Dried Spirulina Algae, Whole Anchovy, Whole Sardine, Whole Scad, Whole Garlic, Sweet Potato Leaves, Shrimp Paste, Whole Corn, Soybean Meal, Brewers Dried Yeast, Wheat Germ, Vitamin A Acetate, Vitamin D3 Supplement, L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate (Source Of Stabilized Vitamin C), Vitamin E Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Fructooligosaccharides, Dried Bacillus Subtilis Fermentation Product, Dried Bacillus Licheniformis Fermentation Product |
2. Hikari Saki Fancy Goldfish Fish Food for Premium Grade or Fancy Goldfish
Hikari is one of the most trusted brands in goldfish care. This food is formulated to bring out the brightest colors in goldfish, making it the food of choice for many goldfish breeders in Japan. Hikari Saki is formulated for the needs of fancy goldfish, but it makes a great food for common types as well. This food is formulated with a patented bacteria product that helps improve digestion. It is a complete diet and can be fed daily to goldfish, although keeping roughage in the tank at all times is still advisable. This food’s first ingredient is fish meal, and it is a quality, high protein food option for any adult goldfish.
- Contains patented beneficial bacteria
- Color-enhancing formula
- Has a marine protein as the first ingredient
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| Fish meal, wheat germ meal, brewers dried yeast, soybean meal, wheat flour, wheat starch, corn gluten meal, dried bakery product, fish oil, spirulina, soybean oil, rice bran, dried seaweed meal, astaxanthin, DL-methionine, garlic, dried Bacillus subtilis fermentation product, choline chloride, vitamin E supplement, L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (stabilized vitamin C), inositol, d-calcium pantothenate, riboflavin, vitamin A supplement, thiamine mononitrate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, niacin, folic acid, vitamin D3 supplement, biotin, disodium phosphate, ferrous sulfate, magnesium sulfate, zinc sulfate, manganese sulfate, copper sulfate, calcium iodate |
3. Aqueon PRO Foods Revitanew Formula Fish Food
The Aqueon PRO Revitanew food is not a goldfish specific food, but it does meet all of their nutritional needs. These sinking pellets can be fed to fancy or common goldfish, as well as omnivorous tankmates. This food contains Aqueon’s proprietary Wellplex blend of microalgae, macroalgae, and vitamins. It also contains probiotics and is formulated to reduce fish stress. It is a high protein and high-fat formula, so it is highly palatable. Care should be taken not to overfeed this food. Even if this food is not used as a primary food, it can be used with fish who are stressed, like after transport or illness, and may even stimulate fish that are not eating to eat.
- Proprietary stress-reducing blend
- Good option for stressed, sick, or shocked fish
- Highly palatable
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| Fish Meal, Wheat, Shrimp Meal, Krill Meal, Pea Protein, Grain Distillers Dried Yeast, Fish Oil, Black Soldier Fly Larvae, Fish Protein Concentrate, Dehydrated Kelp, Limestone Ground, Squid Meal, Dried Algae Meal- Chlorella, Calcium Montmorillonite Clay, L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate (source of Vitamin C), Spinach Powder, dl-Alpha Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E Supplement), Choline Chloride, Xanthophyll, Vitamin A Acetate, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Riboflavin-5-Phosphate, Niacin, d-Calcium Pantothenate, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex (source of Vitamin K Activity), Folic Acid, Thiamine Mononitrate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Biotin, Garlic Powder, Calcium Propionate (Preservative), Algae Meal-Dried (Spirulina), Manganese Sulfate, Zinc Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Ethylenediamine Dihydriodide, Astaxanthin |
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Hi hi! Based on your recommendation, I purchased the Azayaka growth formula for my 2 goldfish (ranchu and thai oranda; both are between 3.5-4 inches). Any idea on how many pellets to feed each fish? The ranchu gets floaty after each meal. Thank you for your help!
With Azayaka, I go by feeding time not the amount of pellets partly because they are so tiny and also because each fish is different in terms of how much they need. I recommend feeding them for about 30 seconds and removing everything else that isn’t eaten in that time. It can take a bit of trial and error but you’ll learn through experimentation. 🙂 Hope this helps!
Hi! I am a broadtail moor(black telescope) goldfish keeper and to me, I have never feed them Azayaka. It is because they always appear on Ebay and so much orders went blank afterwards, plus my order was about to go on my place, but ended postponed due to an error of my code lol. But I think it’s best to say, I feed my goldfish Hikari. Hikari Growth formula is best for young fish, Saki Hikari is best for adult fish and premature fish, Hikari Lionhead is best for small and medium sized goldfish, because as they consume the pellets, it aggressively increases size and rapidly increase color enhancements:+) this diet is not all weat, but spirulina, krill meal, fish meal, and veggies. Very good product just like Hikari:-)
Thanks for sharing your preferences, Isaiah! I love broadtail moors <3
I tried feeding my 3 conet goldfish (Kane, Avel, and Aave) pellets, but the simply didn’t eat them. I know after a while into the day of not being fed they probably did their usual foraging and popped some in their mouths, but I’m afraid by then the pellets were just releasing yucky stuff into the tank to dirty it. I did start using “crisps” and they love those (they also LOVE spinach. It’s amazing to see how easily they bite little pieces off) But if these pellets are really the best options, how can I get them to eat them before they are just sitting and dirtying the water??
I would fast them a few days, then try again with a little amount 🙂 They will come around eventually
I am using Hikari pellets but would like to switch to the northfin you suggest since they are getting bigger now… their bodies are about 2 inches long, not including tails. How do I know which size pellet is best for them? The ones they’re eating now are tiny.
I would go with the small size Northfinn.
So Helpful! Thank You.
You are welcome 🙂
I bought a goldfish for my 2nd grade class room just about 15 years ago. About a year ago I found out he\’s shubunkin. I finally had to retire him from my classroom because he now requires a bigger tank. He is now in a 55 gallon tank in my family room. He kept getting high ammonia levels causing septicemia. I tried the powdered erythromycin from Petsmart but it would just come back so it was finally suggested I try Melafix and after 2 weeks of treatments it seemed to be gone. I change the water every week. I started to research goldfish food and found your site. I spent quite a bit of time researching dog food and and now do a homemade raw diet for the my dogs and found similarities in good and bad brands as I did with fish and dog food. I currently have been using Bug Bite pellets, Omega One flakes and TetraPro crisps. He also gets 6 peas a day. I\’ve got live wood and plants in the tank too. I\’m learn now there are better brands of food out there and how I can also but in leafy greens. I noticed last week he started to get blood spots again so I treated with Melfix again. My thoughts were between my husband and I was overfeeding causing extra waste which boosted up ammonia? Can you recommend anything more like brands of food ? How to keep the septicemia coming back and treatments? I noticed a few tiny spots last night so added ammonia reducer until I could do my weekly water change in the morning. This morning I could tell he just didn\’t feel well ( maybe too much ammonia reducer?) I did the water change, added salt and a treatment of Melafix and he seems a bit better and ate a few peas and reg. food. I added a spinach leaves being held by a chip clip. Any suggestions is appreciated.
High ammonia can mean inadequate filtration or as you said overfeeding. Water changes & Prime are the better way to deal with ammonia spikes IMO.
Thanks , Since writing this I had more time to look all through the website and learned soooo much. I was told my Petsmart/Petco to only change 25% out weekly. I was really surprised to learn that I can change up 90% and put the Prime in first and then add new water. I ordered a Phython hose. I’m dealing with the recent red streak of blood by big water changes and it seems to be getting better. I also plan on ordered the pellets you recommended. I join the Facebook page and will ask a few more questions there.
Great to hear!
Hi Meredith,
What’s the best way to feed spinach and lettuce? I have tried booking spinach and it became so soft that when my goldfish tried to bite some off she got a huge long piece. She sucked in the whole thing before I could do anything about it, and I was terrified she would choke to death. She finally spat it out and I was able to remove it luckily. Can you suggest the best way to prepare the leafy greens to avoid that type of thing happening again?
Thank you!
Andrea
You can try tearing it into finer pieces if you like. But it won’t hurt them and they won’t choke. That’s what they do in the wild.
Loving your site, it’s so helpful!
I noticed however, after giving your top three pellet recommendations, you mentioned what low quality brands often do with their ingredients.
In all three of the recommendations you gave, they all contain grain based ingredients which you previously warned against.
Bought the Japanese brand you mentioned but now I’m wondering
Hi Peter, so all pellets on the market that I know of all have wheat in them as a binder. The difference is in how much and what kind. NorthFinn uses whole wheat which is not as much of a constipation causing ingredient. When plain wheat is the first ingredient I classify that as a low quality pellet. Hope that helps!
Hi!
I just wanted clarify, Is the Azayaka food good for goldfish even though it has fish meal has the first ingredient?
Thanks!
It isn’t my first choice but it is still a very decent food.