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Here
is What Happens.
Many of these Goldfish
are raised on fish farms
that do not feed
commercial fish food.
The fish are fed
vegetation. Sometimes
the vegetation is
composted on the ground
before it is fed to the
Goldfish. The fish also
eat some insects, algae,
worms, and other foods
that naturally occur in
the ponds.
When
these Goldfish are
shipped to wholesalers,
retailers, and aquarists
in the United States,
they immediately begin
to eat commercial fish
foods such as floating
flakes, floating
pellets, and sinking
foods.
These
foods are often richer
in protein, fat, and
carbohydrates and are
less digestible than the
foods the Goldfish were
eating in ponds. This
change in diet causes
problems, perhaps
blocked intestines, and
erratic swimming by the
Orandas, often
mistakenly identified as
swim bladder infections.
All
the Goldfish we sell
have been raised on fish
farms that feed
commercial floating
food, so there is very
little change in their
diet, when they come to
our facility, and these
fish have very few
swimming problems.
It
really makes no sense
that fish would get
swimming problems from
eating food off the
surface, when their
ancestors have been
eating insects and other
natural foods off the
surface of the water for
a very long time.
We
believe that the
swimming problems are
caused by the change in
diet, not from eating
food from the surface of
the water. If you get
Goldfish from us and
feed them floating goldfish
foods,
you should have very few
problems.
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