Ok, I have kept fish before and I just thought the little tubs of food aquariums sell were fine for fish. But i've also read that they like peas and other fresh food.

I have 2 fantail goldfish, both quite small.

Any advice on what to feed them, how to prepare this food and how much to feed them.

right now theyre just living off a tub of flakes that the fishshop sold me.

Here's a link to the goldfish food page, here at Koko's. If you still have questions after reading this... Just ask.

http://www.kokosgoldfish.com/food.html

I have checked out the list, but my comp wont let me access the 'home foods list' page. It just brings me back here.

I never knew goldfish ate lettuce!!

Hummm. You're right. Maybe one of the Moderators would be kind and fix that.

Heck... Goldfish will eat almost anything they can get in their mouths.

I feed my goldfish; spinach, romaine lettuce, any kind of leaf lettuce, beet greens, shelled peas, sugar snap peas, snow peas, broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, cucumber, orange slices, lemon slices, grapes and shrimp.

Maybe some of the other members will add any other foods they feed that I missed.

Ok, this might make me look stupid but what the heck...

Can you feed them just ordinary frozen peas, after theyve been cooked and cooled down?
And with the other stuff - like grapes, lettuce and cucumber...i take it you just chop it up and put it in.

is this fresh stuff, along with the flakes, going to provide a healthier balanced diet? I also suppose the fresh food is cleaner than flakes...

i didnt know any of this. I have always just relied on pellet foods that claim to be a balanced diet. i've never had any problems...but feeding fresh food would be more fun

Ah HA! your found something that needs to be fixed! THank you! Sorry about that.

Yup - plain old frozen peas are great. I looooove peas, personally. Whenever I cook up a batch, I thow in a few extra. These need to be shelled - I pinch 'em and pop the two little pieces of pea out of the shell - and then just drop them in the tank and watch the fishes go crazy! If you have really little fish, you can pinch them into smaller pieces - or cut them.

I like to hang spinach leaves from a clip on the side of the tank - they love to tear and shred pieces of leave off and eat them. It seems to be great fun for them. Chopped pieces of all kinds of fresh food are so much fun - and a varied diet is extremely healthy. I have a section of my garden, in the summer, where I grow fresh food for the fish- spinach, dandylion, all types of lettuces, etc. REmember - with the greens - the darker has more vitamins and good nutrition than the whiter stuff....

A good staple pellet will go a long way in goldfish keeping. I am never without ProGold from Goldfish Connection, Spirilana Flakes (I like Goldfish Connections for they hold together well), shrimp pellets, and seafood salad. I like Hikari pellets as well as a few other misc. brands. My cupboard has a colletion of things. Any or all of these can also be tossed into your gel food mixture to fill it out, also! IT really makes feeding the goldies tons of fun.

My goldies love a treat of strawberries or watermelon occasionally. I mainly feed progold and gel food along with peas once a week. I also feed krill and brine shrimp.

I feed Hikari lionhead, Bioblend, Tetrafin goldfish crisps, peas..
From goldfishconnection--Progold, Spirulina flakes, seafood flakes, freeze dried Krill, freeze dried bloodworms. I think that is it. Never tried the cucumbers, lettuce and fruits but will.
A lot of my goldies I only have had two plus years and they are getting huge, not just in length but in width. People that last saw them as tiny goldfish come over and say Wow your fish got huge. I love it.