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Hello!
I got some goldfish today! Yey! It's my first time though and I was wondering if people could give me some advice on how to look after them.
All I have right now is the tank, three lovely fishies, food and a declorinator/conditioner. Is there anything else that I REALLY need?
Also, I'm a little confused on how I should clean out the tank. Any idea?
Any other advice will be taken with much consideration!
make sure you don't over feed them, it kills them lol. the food messes up the tank or somet and they get ill and die. :(
Thanks! Do you know how much I should give them and when I should give it to them?Quote:
Originally Posted by Cod
Apparently its a flake each a day but i give mine a little more:eusa_angeQuote:
Originally Posted by CleverPanda
to clean them just get a bucket and a syphon thing to suck 1/2 of the water out into the bucket, put the fish into that bucket. then get another bucket and do the same until its empty and pour the 2nd bucket away. then clean it with a sponge (or toothbrush) and do the filter and stuff aswell. then put some of the water from the first bucket in, then the fish, then the rest of that water. then fill the other bucket with water (not too warm but not too cold) and add some tapsafe liquid in then mix it around, then add that to the tank slowly and dooone.
No wonder my goldfish kept dying i gave em a big pinch full (about 30 flakes)
Feed them once every two days and try not to overfeed them. Just a little pinch of fish food. Clean them regularly if you don't have a filter in your tank - about once a week.
I did this and my fish are around four years old now but are still quite small.
If they get ill buy them that medicine that you put a little bit of in the tank.
Ive only ever had one gold fish at a time, but I also had tropical fish with them but they are slightly, but not much different. The main thing as people have said is not to over feed them like people have already said. You can give them flakes or like tiny pellet things that have been crushed.
infrequents way of cleaning the tank is the best and is how I have been doing mine for the past 5 years with my tropical fish.
If your interested I give my fish dog food. Them like dog sausage things called Chubb or w.e. Anyway, they have a tiny bit of that at 00:00 at night and its all they have apart from a tiny bit of flakes and they are massive. In a 2ft tank I got 4 fish left of about 9. The smallest of them is about 3 inches, the biggest about 5/6 inches long and about 4 tall. They are pretty massive for the tank, but just keep growing, they are happy though and I dont have the money for a new tank aha lol. x
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Originally Posted by CleverPanda
Feed them well (Don't over feed them)
Keep the water clean (Filter will help)
Make there living area fun (Put a couple of fish ornements with them)
Don't do what i did when i was about 5 or 6, and that was put washing up liquid in the tank :rolleyes:
I fed my goldfishes and big fat eye fishes lots so that it covered most of the top of the water lmao.
Some of the advice in this thread is good, some is shocking and it upsets me that people don't find out exactly how to look after animals before they take them on :(.
I got my first pair of goldfish for my fourth birthday. One disappeared when I was about 8 or 9 (I'm being serious, it literally was just gone from the tank - and no, my parents didn't take it away because it had died!). Anyway the second lived on until we moved house and put it in a pond with some other fish and was still alive when we finally left that house when I was about 10 or 11 :).
Anyway, we fed them maybe 2 or 3 flakes between them a day. To clean the tank we basically did what infrequent said. If your tank has a lid like mine did, you will need some sort of thing to filter oxygen into the water (I had this cool little guy in a diving suit which stood at the bottom and oxygen bubbles came out of his helmet :D). We also had these magnetic sponge type things; one stuck to either side of the glass so you could clean the glass by moving it around.
After 7 or 8 years (one of) mine were still going (and they were fully grown when I got them), and had adpated well to living in a pond with the other fish. So this should be sound advice ;). Good luck!