Thursday, October 1, 2009

Goldfish preferred water quality

Goldfish is indeed a great fish to have in your aquarium. They are bright looking, attractive and also quite resistant to disease if only you know the secret of goldfish.
In truth goldfish keeping is all about keeping your aquarium clean so that you have an optimal water quality. This will help you to avoid some diseases and increase the life expectancy of your fish.

Keeping water quality

It is important that you keep the quality of the water stable for your goldfish to thrive in. The problem with goldfish is that the water is easily spoilt with all their excrement. Moreover most pet shops do not tell you this and you are equipped with a poor filtration system.

The result is that your fishes keep on dying and you keep on buying from the pet shops.

How to do this

It is important that you keep doing regular water changes. Only 20% every two weeks because over this you risk causing an imbalance in the aquarium. This will cause your fish to be stressed and therefore prone to diseases.

It is also important that you do not overfeed the goldfish. The ideal will be to feed the fishes a quantity of foods that will be eaten in around 3 minutes. It is also important that you REMOVE any excess food from your aquarium because this will not be eaten.

This is another tip that you have learned on goldfish that I bet you were not aware of.

Do you still want more information on goldfish then I will advise you to have a look at this ebook
It contains a lot o f information on Goldfish that most pet shops fail to give their customers. You should really have a look at it.