| Goldfish can make great pets and the | | | | bad water quality leaving your goldfish |
| proper goldfish care can ensure that | | | | stressed out and at risk for disease. |
| your fish lives for a long time, in | | | | Doing partial water changes, about 25% |
| fact, the oldest living goldfish on | | | | of the total water changed out once a |
| record lived for 43 years! | | | | month, is a must to keep your goldfish |
| One of the most important things you can | | | | happy and healthy. |
| do for your goldfish is to choose the | | | | Just like you, your goldfish can get |
| right tank. Goldfish need well | | | | sick and part of caring for him is to |
| oxygenated water so you'll want to pick | | | | keep an eye on them to make sure he |
| a tank that has a lot of surface area - | | | | doesn't show any of the signs of |
| or area where the water meets the air. | | | | disease. You want to look for little |
| It's in your fish's best interest to | | | | white spots that almost look like salt |
| choose a tank that is shorter and longer | | | | which is a disease called Ichtyopthirius |
| as opposed to one that is taller and | | | | and needs to be treated right away. |
| thinner. I know a lot of people keep | | | | Also, observe your fish every day and |
| their goldfish in a bowl, but this isn't | | | | make sure that he doesn't exhibit any |
| really a very good environment for a | | | | unusual behavior that can indicate that |
| fish and it certainly won't allow for | | | | he is sick. Make sure you keep the tank |
| you to expand and add other fish to your | | | | at a constant temperature and that the |
| collection. | | | | PH level remains within the preferred |
| Another be sick part of goldfish care is | | | | range. |
| to make sure that the water is always | | | | Goldfish care is not that hard and |
| clean. Goldfish, in general are actually | | | | merely requires that you provide him |
| pretty messy fish and they can pollute | | | | with an appropriate environment in which |
| their own water pretty quickly. You also | | | | to live. Feeding him a varied diet |
| need to be careful not to feed them too | | | | consisting of flake foods, brine shrimp |
| much as the excess food will float to | | | | and blood worms will help keep them |
| the bottom and start to decay. Plus they | | | | healthy. Make sure you have a good |
| will eat too much and then poop more and | | | | heater and filtration system on your |
| their waste in the water will also start | | | | aquarium and your goldfish should be |
| to decay. Both of these will add up to | | | | happy and healthy for quite some time. |