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Written by Mike Tazzey   
Goldfish care. The general advice and tips given in this article is to assist hobbyists who keep, or want to keep goldfish. I hope this helps in giving you some insight on keeping your goldfish both healthy and happy.
by MikeTazzey


Goldfish care. The general advice and tips given in this article is to assist hobbyists who keep, or want to keep goldfish. I hope this helps in giving you some insight on keeping your goldfish both healthy and happy.

Aquarium Setups.

Before you even think of buying your goldfish, you need to buy these items for your goldfish care. Note: depending where you live, you may not need some of these items. An aquarium and stand, aquarium hood, fluorescent strip light, thermometer, aquarium filter, with airline tubing, and air stone, gravel, siphon, buckets (used for water changes), freshwater test kits (for checking ammonia, nitrite and nitrate), seeding kit ( for ammonia bacteria etc), ornaments, and plants.

Care of Goldfish.

One aspect of care is knowing what to give them for food, being omnivorous you will find they will eat almost anything. For beginners I would suggest relying on the pre-packaged goldfish foods from your pet store, which can be floating flake or pellet form, though only for common goldfish and comets. Feeding them twice a day is sufficient, but give them only enough food that they can eat in 2 to 3 minutes, you don't want uneaten food causing problems to your water quality. .

Fancy Goldfish Care.

Fancy goldfish care is a lot different in terms of feeding and their requirements in an aquarium, compared to the common type goldfish. Heating is a must, temperatures of between 65 to 75 F are required, and should never fall below 50 F. Keeping common or comet goldfish with fancies will result in you losing your fancies, among various reasons for this is the different feeding habits, continually letting fancies surface feed will lead to buoyancy problems, and death. So Fancies need to be fed sinking pellets or granules. Fancies can grow large, up to 6 inches or more, so keep one fancy per 10 gallons of water in your aquarium as a rule.

Goldfish Care - Commons and Fancies - Mixing.

To understand the problems that relate to trying to keep commons or comet goldfish in the same aquarium as fancies, you need to understand the requirements of each type of goldfish, one of those was the feeding of each, but it's a much wider problem than just the feeding. Comets and common goldfish are cold water fish, they in general require no heating in the tank, they are quicker in movement to the fancies, stronger, and are less likely to succumb to buoyancy problems, most of all they are likely to attack fancy's and injure or kill them. Fancies on the other hand will not survive in cold water, they need heating and can not withstand wide temperature fluctuations. Their movement is slow, and would not be able to compete for food with the common types, so for your goldfish care and health, keep commons, comets and fancies apart.

Vary The Diet.

It is important for your goldfish care and health, that food specially made for goldfish and fancies is what you give to them, but you can give them on occasion peas(with the outer skin removed), bloodworms, and also blanched green leafy vegetables, in the case of fancies it's a good idea to soak these well first, so that they sink, and remove anything that floats on the surface.

Disease And Sickness

Striving for good health is a priority in good goldfish care, using good practice with your fish and aquarium, disease problems will be very few. Poor house keeping of your fish and aquarium is the main cause of sickness and disease, toxics in the tank, dirty water,, over crowding, poor filtration, stress and rough handling, rapid water temperature changes, and so on, and can go on to create problems with bacteria, viruses, fungi and of course protozoa. Puting new fish into the tank can also bring disease and sickness to the rest of your fish, so its wise to quarantine new fish for a few days to make sure they are ok.Wash new plants, If you experience any problems then speak to your local pet store or vet for advice.

Ammonia, Chlorine Etc.

Tap water now in most places contains chlorine, and is harmful to your fish, for your goldfish care, each week do a 20% water change, before you put tap water into your aquarium put a airstone in it and run for 24 hours, this dispels the chlorine. but always make sure the water is the same temperature as the aquarium. If all is well ammonia and nitrite readings should be zero in your aquarium, with nitrate reading 10ppm ideally, or less.

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Before you decide whether to keep fresh water fish be sure to check out on Mike Tazzey's top quality free articles at Goldfish Care and Discus fish at Fish In Aquarium

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