10 Best Goldfish Tank Setup

Best Goldfish Tank Setup in 2023

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Goldfish Care: A Guide

The general advice and tips given in this article will assist hobbyists who keep or want to keep goldfish. I hope this helps in giving you some insight on keeping your goldfish both healthy and happy.

Equipment For Aquariums.

Ideally for your goldfish care, you require most of these items if not all of them, but that will depend on your climate. Aquarium, stand and hood, with fluoresent lighting, a filter with airline tubing and airstone, thermometer, buckets for changes of tank water and a siphon, your choice of plants and ornaments, and freshwater test kits for checking ammonia and nitrite levels, and finally seeding kit.

Caring For Goldfish.

In knowing what to feed your fish is part of goldfish care. As they are omnivorious, given the chance they would eat almost anything given them. For comets and common goldfish the pre-packaged goldfish food, either flake or pellet type, fed twice daily, gives them a healthy diet, but only feed them what they can eat in 2 to 3 minutes, uneaten food will give problems to water quality.

Fancy Goldfish Care.

The requirements of fancy goldfish care is different to that of the comet or common goldfish, temperatures need to be 65 to 75 F so a heater is needed, never let the temperature drop below 50F. With fancy's they are not surface feeders, and if allowed to do so they will in time have buoyancy problems and you could lose them. Feed them sinking granules or pellets, remember also that fancy's could grow to 6 inches,maybe more, so a wise rule is to keep one per 10 gallons of aquarium water.

Goldfish Care - Commons and Fancy's - Mixing

To understand the difficulties that arise when trying to accomodate both common and fancy goldfish together in the aquarium, you have to get to know each of their requirements.

I mentioned the feeding aspect above, the other problems relate firstly to comets and commons.

They are cold water goldfish, and as such require no heating in the aquarium. they are stronger and quicker movers than the fancy's,and are far less likely to suffer buoyancy problems. They are more than likely to harrass or attack the fancy's, resulting in injury or death to the fancy.

Fancy's need heating, they can not live in cold water, nor can they tolerate fluctuations in temperature, they are slow swimmers and thus could not compete for food with other fish. For your goldfish care and health, do not keep them in the same tank.

A Varied Diet.

A healthy varied diet is part of good goldfish care, obviously giving them food specially made for them is essential, but you can on occasion give them peas (remove outer skin), also bloodworm and blanched green leafy vegetables. With fancies ensure you pre-soak them well first so they sink, and remove any that stay on the surface.

Diseases And Sickness.

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.

Chlorine And Ammonia.

Tap water now in most places contains chlorine, and is harmful to your fish, for your goldfish care, each week do a 20% water change, before you put tap water into your aquarium put a airstone in it and run for 24 hours, this dispels the chlorine. but always make sure the water is the same temperature as the aquarium.

If all is well ammonia and nitrite readings should be zero in your aquarium, with nitrate reading 10ppm ideally, or less.