The invention discloses a feed for herbivorous fishes. The feed comprises one or more selected from the group consisting of bone meal, wheat bran, bean cake, rice bran, rapeseeds, a composite vitamin premix, a traditional Chinese medicinal composite additive, a mineral matter premix and a feed adhesive. The traditional Chinese medicinal composite additive further comprises the following traditional Chinese medicine bulk drugs: dyers woad leaves, common andrographis herb, Indian bread, root of large-flowered skullcap, weeping forsythia capsule, patrinia herb, curcuma tuber, heartleaf houttuynia herb, Chinese magnoliavine fruit, red sage root, dodder seeds, tangshen, milkvetch root, heydyotis and white peony root. According to the invention, the feed for herbivorous fishes is in accordance with demands for intensive and large-scale production in the current aquaculture industry; a compound preparation is prepared from raw materials for the feed according to a certain proportion, which enables synergistic effects of the bulk drugs in the traditional Chinese medicinal composite additive to be better performed; a steaming process is utilized to allow starch in the feed adhesive to agglutinate at different temperatures, so the degree of expansion is increased, the degree of gelatinization of the starch is substantially improved, the effects of a chemical adhesive in feed processing can be totally replaced, and sinking performance and binding performance of the feed are enhanced, which is beneficial for growth and culture of herbivorous fishes and enables good economic benefits and social benefits to be created.