Here's 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.

The 2" Orandas we sell don't have the classical Oranda bump on their heads yet. That bump comes with age. The Orandas that we sell will eventually grow to be much larger and have an even bigger bump on their heads than the Orandas raised on composted vegetation.

The fish we sell are not old, small, and stunted. With some patience and tender care you can raise our fish to be magnificent specimens, and they have the potential to live much longer than the small stunted Orandas with large bumps on their heads.

Our Fancy Goldfish are raised in warm water. The idea is to match the conditions on the fish farm closely to the conditions here in our facility and to the conditions in our customers aquariums and ponds.

When the conditions are closely matched, stress is reduced, and the Goldfish are much less likely to have problems with their swim bladders and everything else.

I take a few frozen green peas out of the freezer and put them in some water, so they'll thoroughly thaw out, before I feed them. I squeeze the peas between my fingers to kind of flatten them out and break the outer covering.

All four of my goldfish eat the peas, and the peas have helped alleviate the buoyancy problems with my fantails, like the green beans have helped your goldfish. I am not sure why it works, but it does.

We've found ways to avoid many fish problems such as the swim bladder problem in Goldfish, and we focus on avoiding and preventing problems.

If you get fish from us and you're not 100% satisfied, we want you to tell us why you're not satisfied, and give us an opportunity to make an adjustment.