How to Care for Goldfish?

If you decide to buy goldfish for the content in your aquarium, you’d better choose more capacity. It is believed that the classical circular aquarium, which opens from the top or no cover – “the most it is” for goldfish. But it is not. It is recommended to use rectangular aquarium with a lid, which are mounted under the lights.

Therefore, for the content of goldfish is better to buy tank with a capacity of 50 liters – they are easier to maintain bio balance. It can contain 6-8 fish, if you provide your pets a continuous purge of air, and water depth will not exceed 30 cm in size in the aquarium of 10 liters and can not contain more than two adult fish.

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Optimal for goldfish water temperature is 18-21 ° C. You can add salt to water – for a better state of health of fish – 5-7 g / liter. It is desirable to regularly replace part of the volume of water, especially if there are no devices for aeration..

Goldfish can rightly be called gluttons. They eat everything and in large quantities. There are ready-made food specifically for goldfish flakes and granules. They are good enough to use, because in addition to essential nutrients with a large part of carbohydrates, these foods contain balanced and natural supplements..

Remember that when feeding dry foods of any kind should be given small portions several times a day.

For variety in your diet and give the goldfish a live feed. Koretra, tubifex, bloodworm large, earthworms – all this takes a few seconds. But remember that a goldfish in any case should not overfeed. You only need to watch it and decide how much food it ate during three minutes.