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Goldfish Care. The aim of this article is to offer general Tips an advice to goldfish hobbyists on care for your goldfish. Hopefully this article will help in understanding your fish needs, to keeping them happy and healthy.

Aquarium Equipment

For your goldfish care you will need these items, but buy these well before you get your goldfish..You may not require all these items depending on your climate. Aquarium and hood with a stand, fluorescent lights,airline tubing with an aquarium filter and air stone, a thermometer, a siphon with buckets for water changes,gravel, freshwater test kits for testing ammonia etc, seeding kit, plus plants and ornaments.

Caring For 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

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 - Mixing Common With Fancy.

Understanding the difficulties that would arise with keeping both common and fancies together in the same tank, you first need to know fully each types requirements. I mentioned above the feeding aspect, but the problem is far greater than that. Both commons and comets are cold water fish, heating for them is not required, their movement is quicker and they are stronger than the fancies, and are unlikely to succumb to buoyancy problems. But they are very likely to attack your fancies and kill or injure them. Fancy’s can not tolerate cold water, or temperature fluctuations,they need heating in the tank, slow in movement, and can not compete with other fish for food. Your goldfish care and health is a must, keep them apart.

Varied Diet.

For the health of your goldfish care must be taken in feeding them food that has been specifically made for them, on occasion you can also give them peas (remove the outer skin), also blanched green leafy vegetables. For fancies pre-soak these well so they sink, and remove any that float on the surface.

Sickness And Disease.

Good health is always a priority in goldfish care, with good house keeping practices your fish should not experience to many problems with disease. The major cause for sickness and disease in aquariums is poor house keeping, things like over crowding, toxics in the aquarium, dirty water, poor filtration, rough handling and stress, along with rapid temperature changes, these ultimately lead to viruses and bacteria, fungi and protozoa. Introducing new fish into your aquarium can also bring disease, so quarantining the new fish for several days will let you see that its ok. if you do experience any problems your local pet store or vet can advise you on what you need to do.

Ammonia And Chlorine.

Chlorine is added to most tap water, and is harmful to your fish, as part of your goldfish care a 20% water change each week is recommended, use an air stone in the tap water for 24 hours to dispel the chlorine, and then ensure the water is the same temperature as the aquarium water. Ensure the Ammonia and nitrite readings are zero, and the nitrate readings should be 10ppm ideally, or even less.

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