hello everyone i have another post for today ive been feeding my goldies bloodworms everynight now for the past few days i was wondering if i should cut that down some? i cant feed them flakes anymore cuz of a floaty oranda and finding sinking pellets around my town is driving me so ive been giving them a diet of spinach every morning and bloodworms at night. i do feed other foods like oranges and other greens like peas to) but should i not feed them so much bloodworms? their tank water stays between 76-78 all the time even at night. ive tried the gel food but it waste in the tank and what i dont get is my calico oranda still floats! only at night though then in the morning hes fine.. weird

well blood worms are still floatie...so just soak them for a minute them feed it to them. You can also but floating pellets but then u need to soak them before feeding them....i hope that helps

Frozen bloodworms are not floaty - I am assuming that is what you are feeding. HAve you tried feeding the chunks of gel in the size that they can take it in one bite? Mine gulp down an entire cube in a bite - it never hits the tank floor. Maybe you can fool them into that!

I think that is an awful lot of protien. That is fine - it will help your fish grow large, etc. but that much protien may actually be exasperating the floaty problem a bit. I am not sure, but I think somewhere along the line, some experienced breeder told me to cut back on the protein in a fish with floating issues.

I think I would double up on the greens and cut back on the protien.

I can only get sinking pellets through mail order. I order my fish food on line every few months or so.....