Mary,
Preferably, your Goldfish should be fed goldfish food rather than tropical fish food, as tropical fish flakes generally contain more protein than what goldfish require, and a steady diet of higher protein foods are not the best thing for a goldfish -- except for certain exceptions when there's little alternative in the matter.
There's still some controversy that exists, as to whether Goldfish are herbivores or omnivores. In nature, Carp (and Goldfish are a type of Carp) with take small animal matter as food, such as earthworms, so they're not strictly herbivores. Yet, they don't make such foods their daily diet. For this reason, you can feed your Goldfish the brine shrimp, mosquito larvae and bloodworms you asked about, but sparingly and only several days a weeks (spread out).
It's for this very reason of diet, and other issues such as temperature, etc., that Goldfish should not be kept with tropical fish. You may want to get your Goldfish his own tank in the near future to best see to his needs. I see nothing wrong with sinking pellets, provided they're meant for Goldfish and contain vegetable matter.
Ray
--- In tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com, Mary Gay <pekes1000@...> wrote:
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> Hi Ray,
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> Thanks for your answer. I have been keeping a pretty close watch on him. He spends a lot of time shifting through the gravel. He seems to like staying around some of the cory. Perhaps he realizes they are hunting food. Would it be better to feed him pellets that sink. Does he need specifically goldfish food. I feel tropical fish flakes, Omega One, that all the fish seems to love. I also have frozen brine shrimp, misquito lavae and blood worms. Are these good for him....
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> Thanks again and have a great day.
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> Mary
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> Subject: Re: [tropical fish club] Blind goldfish
> To: tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, March 7, 2011, 6:07 AM
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> Yes, fish have nostrils and can smell foods. Just how well they can detect
> the smell of flake food depends on how much of a smell the food gives off,
> but most of it has an aroma that is obvious to us as soon as we open the
> can. They can also detect the sounds and movements at the surface of other
> fish feeding, through sensors in their lateral line. As you have him in with
> other fish, you'd have to watch to make sure he gets his fair share, since
> others have a distinct advantage of sight that he no longer has. If it
> appears he is constantly being deprived of enough food, you may need to house him
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