How long can gold fish go without being fed?

Fish can go a week + without eating if they are well fed up to that point. All fish have this ability because that's how it is in the wild, they don't always catch a meal. Plus when they breed they don't go hunting so that's another reason thy are made to withstand that.

So ya don't have anyone feed them, just do a water change before you go and feed them a LITTLE BIT the day you leave and your fine. Don't make the Mistake of buying one of those vacation feeders or tossing in a bunch of food before you leave, that's a sure fire way to come back to dead fish.

Edit: A question to the first two posters, do you have any literature at all to back up your two day claim ? Because I would love to see it : )

P.S. Don't bother looking because it doesn't exsist.

They can go for 48 hours.

two days is the most...maybe u should buy the weekend feeder from a pet store. its really cheap. but i think that 48 hours is ok

a week if they are in a tank but they are messy fish but if their in a pond feed them once a month because if your pond has algae they will eat that and even bugs i put my goldfish in a pond this summer starting the summer and i looked yesterday and he was at the top eating bugs and was huge!!! i was surprised he was alive that was his first time in the pond!!! this year