By Jamie Boyle
Taking care of your goldfish is one of the most important things to do to providing your goldfish the proper care and a long healthy life. First thing to do when taking care of your goldfish when buying goldfish from pet stores is to make sure the tank has been set up in advance. When taking care of your goldfish or new pet make sure your the water in your goldfish aquarium has been treated with conditioner to remove the chlorine from the water and heavy metals. AquaPlus is a conditioner widely used by aquarium and goldfish hobbyist and distributed by Hagen and available at your local pets stores is used to help reduce and take care of the stress during transportation and makes the water safe for your goldfish.
Things you should do when taking care of your goldfish:
1. Never feed your goldfish more then they can eat in the first 2-5 minutes, discard any uneaten food as it will pollute the water in your aquarium.
2. Perform a 25% water change once a week to keep all water chemistry at proper levels and safe for goldfish. Add conditioner to remove chlorine and heavy metals.
3. Test your water with a test kit, testing PH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate. There are others you can test for but this is a great start at ensuring the proper care of the water chemistry at the beginning.
4.Clean your filters with luke warm water, as they hold beneficial bacteria that you don't want to destroy. Add some Nutrifin Cycle to restore beneficial bacteria to keep the aquarium healthy for your goldfish.
5. Clean your the glass of the aquarium with either a brush, or a magnet scraper with you can buy at any local pet store. Keeping your aquarium clean for your goldfish at all times will reduce stress, illness and goldfish diseases.
Your goldfish need the proper care in order to reduce chance of illness and injury. Weekly maintenance and a keeping a close eye on your goldfish for any signs are a good way to enjoying your goldfish for many years. Take care of your goldfish, they're relying on you.
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Thursday, September 20, 2007
Goldfish Care- How To Take Care Of Your Goldfish
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Do you think I can use a vase like a fish bowl? Do you think I can use a big fish bowl?
You could use a vase like a fish bowl but it's not really recommended for taking care of goldfish. Keeping goldfish in a vase or even a goldfish bowl is not the best environment for a goldfish.
You see keeping goldfish in a bowl is just too small for them. Take into account there is no air and filter and your really looking at the lifespan of a goldfish deteriorating quickly. Goldfish are a very dirty fish. They create a lot of waste and soom that water quality will trun for the worse. The build up of ammonia, nitrite, nitrate will surely kill any goldfish.
Yes people do take care of goldfish in a bowl but I can assure people one thing without proper knowledge and regular maintenance people will not have any luck keeping goldfish. If people are serious about wanting fish andtaking care of them as pets people should invest in buying a bigger aquarium equipped with an air pump, aquarium filter and gravel. This alone will help keep goldfish healthy provided you keep the water tested and do regular water changes.
So into your question yes you can keep goldfish in a vase like a bowl but it's not really recommended. You'll have much better luck with goldfish with a bigger fish tank and you'll enjoy the hobby more.
Sincerely,
Jamie Boyle
The Goldfish Guy
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my goldfishes keep dying one by one just after 15 days of changing water .They start moving here and there with flow of water
my gold fishes are seveirly affected with an unknown disease and died they can't breath they can't move their gills their mouth streched and they can't close their mouth why this happened what disease killed my goldfishes
my gold fishes are seveirly affected with an unknown disease and died they can't breath they can't move their gills their mouth streched and they can't close their mouth why this happened what disease killed my goldfishes
Please help!
My Mom has a lovely fancy tail white goldfish (Chubber) which she's had for about 4 years. She recently got it a bigger tank as he's gotten big but not long after switching tanks, he developed what seem like swollen blood vessels in his tail and some tail rot. She's used medication and he seems to be doing fine except a couple veins in his tail are still rather prominent. Does it take a long time for it to heal, or will these blood vessels stay visible? I can try to post a photo if that helps.
Thank you so much. I wouldn't bother but she loves the little piranha. ; )
Zeea
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