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How much food should you give fish at one feeding?

Only what they eat in about 5 minutes.

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  1. Enough food for the whole day
  2. As much as they will keep eating
  3. What they finish in about 5 minutes ✔

Why: Fish will keep eating past what they need. Feed small amounts and make sure they clean up every bit in about five minutes.

Huh, didn't know that: Purdue Extension says goldfish need feeding only once a day.

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What do you call a fish that eats too much? A glut-ton.
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Answer: What they finish in about 5 minutes. Fish will keep eating past what they need. Feed small amounts and make sure they clean up every bit in about five minutes.

  1. Purdue Extension 4-H-447-W: Aquatic Science www.extension.purdue.edu/4-H/_docs/4-h-447-w.pdf
    Be sure they clean up every bit in five minutes. Overfeeding is easy to do and dangerous to your fish.
    Checked 2026-10-11.
  2. Purdue Extension 4-H-447-W: Aquatic Science www.extension.purdue.edu/4-H/_docs/4-h-447-w.pdf
    Feed goldfish once a day.
    Checked 2026-10-11.

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