The content of goldfish and the care of them due to the popularity of the breed seem to be completely simple even for a novice aquarist. These pets with a light hand of talers often acquire for children. But here to take care of a new family member to be adult.
The main thing is to contain aquarium fish at home so that they feel comfortable. It matters and choosing feed, and some other moments affecting the state of the aquatic environment. Considering all these moments, you can take care of your pet, and learn a lot about the peculiarities of its livelihoods.
Select aquarium
First of all, you need to think about the formation of a comfortable environment, because the goldfish is very sensitive to the quality and purity of water. In addition, and The Aquarium itself must be approached by its inhabitant..
The first thing from which the content of goldfish is begins - preparation of aquarium.
Mini version come only for young or as quarantine . Adults grow up to 15 cm, in large water bodies, its body length without a tail reaches 40 cm. Accordingly, the small aquarium will be difficult to call the right choice. Not suitable for the content of cylindrical-shaped or screen capacity.
When selecting a reservoir for the content of goldfish, you need to be guided by the needs of pets. For a pair, an amount of at least 100 liters is required, when the following residents will need from 40 liters per person. Optimal form for aquarium - parallelepiped His length should be twice as much height and width (they are equal).
Reservoirs with curved glasses create a stressful environment for the inhabitants.
It is very important to remember that most of the modern goldfish comes from the countries of Southeast Asia , out of open content. Whereas in Soviet times, the aquarists dealt only with pets, many years cultivated in an artificial environment. Modern features need much greater space for swimming. You should trust only relevant information, otherwise the fish may die within 1 week after purchase.
Conditions of growing different types
Care for gold fish should be made, given their basic needs. Despite the fact that they are recommended for beginners, these features of aquarium content have these magnificent representatives of the underwater world.
It is necessary to care for each representative of different subspecies in its own way.
There are exclusively homemade goldfish for which the temperature of the medium and its other characteristics are important. Consider how to properly contain each of the species, and who can survive even outdoors.
It is worth considering the peculiarities of growing different goldfish in more detail. Among the available species can be noted several options.
Ordinary Goldfish
The most unpretentious in the content. It can live in summer in open reservoirs, in the warmth climate is permissible fully street content. Indoor copies are noticeably smaller - about 15-20 cm long.
Waulehevost
One of the most leisurely varieties. Poor tolerate the neighborhood with more active individuals. Voualehwood long openwork fins, big eyes, needing absence of traumatic elements in the interior of the aquarium.
For comfortable well-being, cool water is needed, good aeration.
Telescope
The characteristic feature of these fish is very big eyes. When choosing decorations, it is important to give preference to the fact that the protruding parts of the pet body do not injure. With a strong overcooling, the fish may die.
Butterfly dzikin
The kind of goldfish, suitable exclusively to aquarium content.
Bubbleglaz
Fish with bags around the eyes, constituting up to 25% of the total body. Inside there is a liquid, so in the aquarium with such a pet should be missing any traumatic elements.
Bubbles are easily bursting, fish care implies maximum caution, no within reach of stones, plants with sharp parts.
Pecilina
Goldfish with a rhombid body, a small head, a wide fin. Suitable for aquarium, and for open content.
Oranda
Fish with a golden-red bright "cap" and white-pink, black, chocolate or pesto colored body. For Oranda, a large amount of water for swimming is important, it is much more necessary for beautiful scenery or abundance of plants.
Adverse conditions of detention can lead to the fact that the bright "cap" will simply disappear.
It needs bright lighting.
Ranch
Substitution without a dorsal fin, with a flat body. The optimal content option is homely, in the species aquarium.
Ryukin.
The fish is characteristic of the curved back, very slow, is sensitive to temperature parameters, poorly tolerates cold.
All types of goldfish are focused on content in spacious open or artificial water bodies. The optimal temperature is within +20.25 degrees Celsius. The pH should be 6.9-7.2. Water rigidity - from 8 units. Among the goldfish there are cold-blooded individuals - they include a telescope and some other long-tailed subspecies.
Decorative types - bubbleggles, voualehvosts, butterflies Dzikin, Oranda prefer the most warm water. The decrease in temperature indicators may be mortally dangerous for them.
How and what to feed?
Feeding of goldfish implies the compilation of a balanced, rather nutrient diet. Dry granules and flakes give alternately with food of plant origin. Among the green food is the optimal solution to be a salad or spinach. It is permissible to give boiled cereals, vegetables, pamping pets with oranges, kiwi, carefully crushed.
From animal food gold fish fits ice cream moth, pieces of meat, liver. The fabric faces are pre-taped. It is useful to periodically offer Daphny fish. Weekly for the prevention of diseases pets are arranged a unloading day. Plants in the aquarium - Riccia, Wolfia can be played as feeding.
It is important to consider: goldfish should receive so much food as they can eat for 3-5 minutes.
Because of the tendency to overeat, they can not be too pamping. It will be enough 1-2 feedings during the day. Excess foods are removed mechanically to avoid water pollution.
Problems with content
Beginner aquarists in the content of goldfish are faced with some difficulties. First of all, the error becomes preservation as a petition of a temporary tank. It can be a beautiful glass on a high leg, a compact aquarium, a regular bank.
The earlier the pet will be in quarantine conditions and adapts to the conditions offered, the better it will feel.
Buying a small aquarium, especially for several goldfish, will also create serious problems.
Errors in content
Minimum volume of tank - 50 liters per part. Accordingly, the pair will need a capacity of 100 liters. Another important point is the dimensions of the soil fractions. Gold fish have a habit of rummaged in bottom contents and can be suppressed by a small stone with a diameter of 3-5 mm. Better from the very beginning to choose a more large-scale filler.
The sensitivity to the purity of the aquarium among goldfish is quite high, while they are quite intensively reproduced or dirt due to their physiology. Following the misconceptions about the "self-cleaning" of the environment, you can create unacceptable conditions for the habitat of pets.
For fish, you need to establish a full-fledged filtering system using internal and external devices. Cleaners should work around the clock.
Gold fish need a rather high oxygen content in water. It is unlikely to achieve optimal indicators. Much more efficiently use the compressor for these purposes, which additionally creating the necessary indicators of the medium in the aquarium.
Another difficulty in the content of goldfish is their indomitable passion for the extermination of greenery.
But this should not become a reason for refusing landing of grassy plants. They have a beneficial effect on the work of the digestive system of fish, help to fight algae. To preserve the created ecosystem, it will be enough to distinguish between the "grazing" of pets and plants for decorating an aquarium. Suitable lemongrass, Anubias, Cryptokorina.
Water substitution frequency is another novice aquarist error.
Faced with the voraciousness of pets and the abundance of the waste of their livelihoods, the hosts of goldfish are trying to withstand the weekly submenses. But these inhabitants of freshwater reservoirs need a more frequent change of water. The optimal will be the option with a replacement of about 30% of the medium twice a week. It is worth considering that changing the change mode should be smooth and gradual, otherwise the fish may experience serious stress, get sick.
Pubsove or undercurrent
Goldfish is a bright representative of his family, greedy to any food. Moreover, these bright beauties quite diligently give up food, and a novice breeder is quite difficult to refuse them. But only one rule should act here: the hungry fish is always healthy. The dietary volume is measured taking into account the daily rate, divided into 1 or 2 meals.
In the crossed, the pets are sick, may die. At one time it is given no more food than one or more fish can eat in 5-10 minutes.
Compatibility
The desire to extract to the aquarium to the golden fish of the neighbors looks quite justified - a beautiful aquarium is difficult to imagine a monobream. But such experiments rarely end successfully. Larger individuals, and even guppies can attack and eat goldfish. Especially often in the risk group turns out to be a veiled variety. Attempts to extract smaller neighbors ends with the fact that they end their life in the stomach of goldfish.
The rare exceptions are indifferent to all catches that can simultaneously perform the role of aquarium sanitation. Representatives of the remaining decorative rocks it is better to protect against such a neighborhood.
If you do everything correctly, the goldfish with ease will live more than a dozen years and will delight the owner with vigor and good well-being.
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