Sometimes in life there seem to be easy questions that are able to be answered in one short burst of excited chatter. Other times the answer is elusive, requiring many hours dedicated to internet research in order to solve the mystery. Unfortunately, my brain always seems to ask these questions late at night.
What do wild goldfish eat?
I bet you immediately opened your mouth, prepared to spit out an answer. You may have started uttering some sounds before your brain caught up to your mouth – reminding you that you didn’t know the answer.
Not without some Google fact checking, that is!
Ask me what other marine life eats and I can rapid fire answer. It may not apply to every single member of the species, but it would be correct for at least one. Whales, simple, they eat plankton. Lobsters, also easy, they like tiny seafood – scary, I know. The adorable octopus is quite fond of shrimp, though I cannot vouch for their use of dipping sauces. Crabs will mess up a buffet of mussels without a second thought.
We all know what sharks eat – fat, juicy humans.
This leaves me once again pondering what a fish in the ocean eats for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I doubt there are giant bottles of pellets being sprinkled across the world each day by huge human arms. (Imagine that sight for a minute though, it’s a wild thought!) I really want to solve this mystery, but it’s very late at night and if I Google anything it will lead to hours of fascinating reading.
Fish probably eat donut pieces, like the ducks in the pond.
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Do wild goldfish exist? I can’t imagine them googly eyed ones surviving outside of a globe tank.
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I know, it makes you wonder!
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Pretty sure that wild goldfish just eat regular corn as they don’t have access to microwaves like their domesticated cousins 🙂
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Hahahahahaha! Corn floating on the water, I can see it now.
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wild imagination as always, Heather 😀 – sprinkles, fair play… #abitofeverything
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Thank you!
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I’ve never thought of wild goldfish before. I just always imagine them in bowls or tanks….Whereabouts in the sea would the wild ones swim? And really, what would they eat? This is going to keep me awake now…! #abitofeverything
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I know, it really baffles the mind to think about goldfish living anywhere but a tiny bowl in the house. Obviously they must live in the wild somewhere, how else did we get them in the tiny bowls?! My brain is still obsessed with it!
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and now I’m left wondering what do wild goldfish eat and how wild is wild for a goldfish? #alittlebitofeverything
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You’re going to think about it for days! And then you’ll forget it for a little bit, then at the weirdest moment it will pop back in your head.
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Where do wild goldfish exist? They aren’t in the sea. Are they native to ponds and lakes? How did they get in there? #Globalblogging
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More questions that I need answers to!
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We have carp in our fishing lakes and they will eat most things from pieces of bacon to sweetcorn and bread. #GlobalBlogging
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You had me at bacon!
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What did we ever do before Google? We were just left to wonder, without ever getting satisfactory answers to vitally important questions like this one!
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I guess I just thought everything in the ocean ate plankton, which is really just nature’s own sprinkles, right?
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This post and the comments definitely raise more questions than answers and to be fair my mind is being blown my the fact that carp eat bacon and sweetcorn. I’m picturing a carp sitting in its pond devouring a nice bacon butty. hehe #GlobalBlogging
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I do always seem to manage to create more questions than answers! What do they eat if there’s no bacon available?!
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I’ve never even thought about a goldfish outside of captivity! laurensparks.net
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I didn’t even realise that there are wild Goldfish. Are they in every ocean around the world? I’m just making a wild guess here that they eat the really tiny sea creatures. #GlobalBlogging
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I’ve been told that they exist in freshwater, but not the ocean. I just assumed they started out in a bowl and some scientist’s lab
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And now I want doughnuts. . .
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Interesting! I’ve never even thought of a goldfish outside its bowl! Hmm! I wonder if they eat sushi!
#GlobalBlogging
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It’s weird to think of certain animals living in the wild.
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When you are not making me laugh you are making me think #GlobalBlogging
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I have actually thought about wild goldfish before, though I never went so far as to google what they eat. Now I’m interested and want to know 🤣 Thanks for hosting #GlobalBlogging
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That’s a weird rabbit hole to fall into on the Internet- you’ve been warned 😉
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Yeah I think I’ll stay away 😂
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