Fish Care

Gold fish is the most common household pets. They don’t require too much space to live and is east to take care of them. They can live many years if take proper care of them. If you want to keep a gold fish healthy, provide them plenty of clean and cool water all the time. There are many types of gold fishes. Oranda, Black Moor, Bubble Eye and Lion Head are suitable for a bowl and other types are better in larger aquariums. The gold fish’s temperature should remain 65 to 68 Fahrenheit. You must have a thermometer. Feed at least twice a day. Make sure all the food has consumed properly. Avoid overfeeding because it will pollute the water which can be harmful for gold fish. Gold fish can eat every thing. Try to give them balanced food containing adequate amount of minerals, vitamins, carbohydrates and protein. Change the water at least 2 to 3 times in a week to keep the water clean. To make bowl more eyes catching put some plants in it, it will give a refreshing look. Some fishes are good jumpers so put a lid or hood on the top of the bowl or aquarium.

Betta is a freshwater fish and it is trend to keep them in aquarium. It is found in American major pet stores. Bettafish is a tank pet. It is quite easy to keep it at home. Sick Bettafish can be handled easily than naturally active and vibrant fish. Bettafish can also fly and jump and come out of the tank. But when it looks lazy, treat them immediately and pay proper attention. You can make it active pet by proper feeding and breeding. Keep in view below mentioned valuable tips for feeding, breeding and housing of Bettafish to make it active and healthy.

There can be some reasons of being sick of your pet. Provide your Bettafish fresh and wide water to move. Never keep more Bettafish together in one tank or aquarium because they are fighting fish. They can debilitate each other. Also avoid keeping them with angelfish, gouramis and fancy guppies. There should not be chlorine in water. Always use water conditioners to prevent the chlorine because this pet is too much sensitive. Also keep constant water temperature and PH level.

How to Feed Betta Fish

• Supply clean and fresh water to Bettafish all the time. Your pet fish water must be neat, in plenty and free from contamination.
• This species can get disease from water born Bacterica and it can cause death.
• This fish like to eat food at the surface of water. So drop food in water with nasal tool when fish sees the food nasal.
• Bettas are very quick eater. Betta is fond of brine, shrimp and frozen bloodworm, glass worm, plankton, tubifex, daphnia etc. Ensure to give only 6 to 7 shrimp at a time. If fish finish this quantity then again offer them a small quantity of food.
• During pre-spawning time feed them more. Entertain them with live form food like black worms, fruits flies and mosquito larvae. These all food items are available in dried form.
• Encourage new born fry to eat after 5 days old. Feed these small fry Bettas numerous times with fry brine, small shrimp and boiled egg yolk.
• If you want to feed them dried food, Bettafish will not eat at start but gradually it will start to eat.
• After spawn, give it some time for recovery, at least one week. Then start heavy feeding.
• Be cautious when you are feeding them. Over feeding and improper food can kill you pet.

Fish’s health and long life depends on some factors and one of those is food is on top of the list. We are going to discuss some food items that you can feed your sea pet.

Tropical Fish Food

Hikari, Omega and Xtreme: If you can not provide your pet with natural food then buy some fine quality food material. Hikari and omega are two types of food that are available easily in market for your sea pet however Xtreme is rare to find in market.

Flakes: Flakes are fine items as pet food. It contains numerous qualities included spiraling algae.

Pellets: Pellets are best food for all fish species. Pellets have slight nutrients that dissolve into the bowl/tank water. Owing to its less size that it captures, it is ideal for bowl. Fish can finish its single piece in one time that’s why it does not pollute bowl water.

Food for Fry: There are a lot of special foods for baby fish that contain sufficient quantity of nutrition because they require balance diet in earlier days to develop stages of their lives. Hikari is the paramount food as a first bite of fry fish.

Freshwater Fish Food: Omega 6 petty acids are extremely valuable for fresh and coldwater fishes. People who want to enhance omega 6 petty level acids in their body eat freshwater fishes.

Perfect Food for Pond Fish: Pond fishes are almost very cute and colorful to see. Koi and Hikari are used for nutrition developments and color enhancement of pond fish. It also fulfils the nutrition needs of fishes.

Blood Worms: Blood worms by omega are full-bodied and in large size. These are authentic blood worms that mean they have superb ability of color enhancement. Some omega one blood worms are also available in frozen-dried food form.

Julius as fish Food: Julius is very colorful fish that is found in East Africa. It is used for the development of Xtreme Cichlid. It is best food to gain healthy, energetic and living testimonial xtreme cichlid diet. People also eat this colorful fish as seafood.

Guppies are the freshwater, colorful fish. This tinny fish discovered in 1866. Guppies are originated in Brazil, Guyana, Netherlands Antilles, and U.S virgin and in Venezuela.

Like Goldfish and Rainbow fish, Guppies require discriminatory bred and atmosphere to maintain their coloration and embroider their fins. In some places there are special societies that are devoted to breed Guppies. Some show-class Guppies can be bought at reasonable prices from market. Fancy Guppies that have quite stunning look can be originated at fish stores. They are not much expensive.

Female Guppy Heeding Tips

• When you keep new fish at home in your tank, first examine female Guppies carefully. You can isolate it from other fishes, if a female Guppy is near to generous birth.
• A pregnant Guppy will be larger in body size and dark spot at her body called gravid spot. Gravid spot will get darker as she will near to give birth.
• When you get sign at your female Guppy, it is the time to move it into another small breeding aquarium. This aquarium should be larger and wider than before and it should be prepared in all ways for new baby Guppy fish.
• In new aquarium there should be a breeder bowl, a container made of plastic or net should be hanged inside the aquarium. It should be near the bottom, so that new Guppy fish can fly over it and mother fish can use it at bottom.
• There should be a net in the hub of aquarium for partition purpose. This is essential   because some females eat their young one.
• If you do not want to use a breeder box then your breeding portion should be covered with heavy plants. These plants will offer security to your new born fries when they want to hide.
• When you see that female Guppy has completed birth, you can keep it back in large and old aquarium separately from baby Guppies.
• Baby fish necessitates food several times in a day. A small Tropical fish can be favorite food for this fry. You can also use adult flake pieces as their food.
• Remember not to feed baby Guppies excessively, it may spoil the water condition. It can also damage their physical condition and cause your aquarium to be cloudy. To keep tank water clean is also very necessary. Filter your small aquarium water approximately after two weeks.
• When babies grow bigger, take some water from large aquarium and add in babies’ aquarium water. Continue this formula.
• After about six weeks you can convert them in large tank and mix up them with adult Guppies.

Basically it is an Asian fish. People like to keep them at home in small size as well as in large size. It is also used as sea food not just in Asia, but also in west. Goldfish is very cute fish in golden color. It may be in combination with red, orange, black and brown color. If you want to do fishing of goldfish then be careful because ill and sick goldfish can cause of so many dangerous diseases, like body fungus, anchor worm, flukes, cloudy eyes, ulcers etc. Improper fins and tail can cause of bacterial infections. Below mentioned tips will help you to prevent goldfish from diseases and keep them healthy in healthy atmosphere at home. If we provide them healthy, sufficient and proper atmosphere, they can live about 50 year.

Goldfish Atmosphere and Water Temperature

For a golden fish care, first of all it is necessary that keep them in classic bowl. If it is in large size then keep them in tank or pool. They like to swim in squander water so provide them healthy deep and cool water to have adventure. Like other all fishes, goldfish also requires a specific water temperature to be healthy and active. Their tank temperature should be between 65 and 68 degree. For this purpose, use a thermometer. If you keep them in above 72 degree temperature, it can cause your fish heart damage, nerve damage and can seriously obstruct the resistant system due to the oxygen deprivation.

Water Needs

Keep your goldfish in at least 10 gallon water but keep in mind that minimum 8 gallon of water is sufficient for each goldfish. In sufficient space your goldfish will be healthy. Always use filter to change fish tank water after every 10 to 15 days. Create fancy atmosphere for your fancy goldfish.

Goldfish Healthy Diet

Do not forget that goldfish eats anything that it is provided. So give them a variety and high carbohydrate foods. Many fish foods are available in fresh form while some are in frozen condition. They need to feed only once a day. Provide them proper food on proper time and make your fish healthy and long live. It will also make their resistance system stronger.

Hiding Space

Like some other fishes, they also need some place to hide. But be aware that sharp and rough condition decoration may damage your fish’s health. About 50 to 75 percent space should be spare of your tank in which your fish can hide. This will also save them from several diseases.

Goldfish Companions

Goldfish can never live alone in one tank. So provide those same species companions or at least someone that has similar temperament and requirements. Otherwise they can injure each other. There are a lot of fancy fishes that can live together. You can also use an artificial soft fish as goldfish companion.

If you love fish and want to keep them at home then you need a bowl for fish. If you have just two, three fish then fish bowl is enough to keep them but for the group of fishes you need a fish aquarium or tank. A pool in your garden is best to keep different types of fishes in huge quantity. For your guidance here are some tips for fish bowl selection. These bowls are available in diverse styles, shapes, colors and size.

Fish Bowl Shapes

• Round Shape

This type of fish bowl is round in shape and has a large capacity of water and fish. You can purchase it in all sizes, like small, medium and large. It can be easily washed.

• AP Fish Bowl

This style of fish box has great capacity of water than the round shape bowl. It is equal from all four sides. Fish boxes are in different styles rather than typical round style. Fish bowls are available with filtration system. These are in lager size that is enough for a couple of fish.

• Sell Box

Some fish bowls are available with light facility. This lighting system can be direct or indirect. These bowls with light facility may be seen rarely in market but are really very useful and nice.

Color of Bowl

• Transparent

All glass fish bowls are transparent fish bowls. We can see internal bowl decoration and fish movement. We can also use it as colorful decoration piece.

• Red and Black bowl

This is also glass bowl but in black, white and red color. This fish box’s height is 16cm and diameter is 18 cm. We can also use it as a vase.

Fish Bowl Size

• In medium size fish box, you can keep about one or two gallon water easily. An acrylic style box costs cheap i.e. $6 and its weight is about 3 ponds with water.
• A small size fish box contains maximum one gallon of water for fish. Its cost is about $12. Its weight is about 6 pounds when it is filled with water.
• A large size of fish box is also available. That is most common and ideal size for fish care. A number of fishes can easily move in this tank/bowl. It contains about 2 gallon water and its weight is 12 pound with water. We can adjust 3 gallon water also in it. It has about 11 inches height and 10 inches wide.

In start when you keep aquariums, it looks so beautiful cleaned and set up. But after some time, infamous bloom of algae comes all around. When a fish tank covers with dirty algae you have to spend some hours to clean it. Follow some tips for cleaning fish box/tank instead of atmosphere to spend time and effort in cleaning box.

• Remove algae small algae blooms before preventing algae. It is easy to damage small bubbles of algae with ordinary techniques instead of getting harmful condition.
• Poor pH and bad quality of water can also cause algae. So test pH and quality of water properly after some days and keep it clean.
• Algae grow with the access of light. Wrong light direction and improper lighting spectrum can also be a source of algae. If your aquarium is in such a position where it gets the sunlight directly, it can probably grow algae. If algae cover your plants and decoration, place them in such a place where they do not receive much light.
• Take some algae eaters in tank or fish box that are not harmful for your fish. Different aquariums like to eat diverse type of algae. Some like to eat it on grown stage and some like it in starting position. For the extra algae purchase an eraser to decrease algae from your pet tank or box.
• Snails and shrimps are common algae eaters but keep in mind some types of snails are crazy. Snails will take slid around your fish tank and make it clean from algae while enjoying it.
• If you want to produce some additional plants for your snails, you can add some live plants in tank they do not grow madly.
• If you have a large water pond, garden pond or you have a fish form, treat it with technical methods. Special UV-device sends short-wave and high energy, ultraviolet light that can kill all micro algae in the pond. This device can damage all micro organisms in the water.
• Some common fishes are also algae eater. They prevent algae from growing into large amount.

Rainbow fish are popular aquarium for its beauty and peacefulness. Rainbow fish is slim and smart figure fish with attractive fins. It has four fins. Two fins are dorsal. One dorsal fin is small and in black color and the other dorsal is large and in dual shade while rest of fins are yellow with black marks. Pectoral fins tips can have white and black tips on it. Aged males fish have fiber style extension on their fins. Fin shapes can be different in male and female. Their body gives different color tone in different lighting. There is a neon brand of color along with the back bone of the fish that reflects green and blue shades. Toward the back of the fish, scales become increasingly lucent; at that point individual fish bones are visible. It is a freshwater fish and originates in Australia and Southeast Asia. If you are going to add a Rainbow fish to your aquarium these tips and secrets of popular Rainbow fish care.

1. 1. Tank Atmosphere
   

These fish like to swim freely in wide place so purchase a grand size tank with plenty of rooms to swim and to hide in rooms. Also provide your fish with filter and air pump facility. Their tank or box should be decorated and furnished with rocks and other ocean necessary articles. Most importantly, it should be kept clean with transparent and pure water.

1. 2. PH and Temperature

If you do not have already a thermometer for your tank then purchase a new one to check the water temperature time to time. This aquarium should keep between 72 to 82 degrees Fahrenheit temperature. It should be checked and maintained daily. Also make sure that PH level is constant all the time. It should remain between 6.5 and 7.5.

1. 3. Food

Keep in mind that Rainbow fish are omnivorous fish. They need balanced diet that may include live and processed food for their good health. Rainbow fish like to eat live food like tubifex, blood worms or daphnia at least once in weak. They have small throats to eat so feed them with small pieces of nutrition. They also require algae-based food, vegetable and protein.

1. 4. Box Cleaning

Be sure to clean your fish tank after every two weeks. There is need to remove approximately 25% of the current tank water volume.

1. 5. Divers Nature
   

Rainbow fish can never live with fin nippers because different fins can interact to each other individually. Male fish fins may be divided and change by nature and length. Round edges of the splits are a good clue. Complex fins means they are extra liable to certain disease like fine rot. Disease may catch you without any warning. So it is better to have appropriate hand medication.

You can make your fish’s life long and happy with the decoration of pet accessories. Add some aquarium decoration pieces to your fish box. Decorate center part of the fish box in simple way. Fish species are in different color and love to live in colorful environment, so try to provide the fish with colorful tank environment. In this way you can provide them natural ocean atmosphere. With the help of some kind of aquarium you can provide your fish shelter that fishes need to feel safe. These fish box decoration articles are non-toxic and reduce the fish stress. You can use air stones, shipwrecks, old west ghost town and Asian architectures as aquarium decoration pieces.

Light Effects

Use indirect light effects because in under-water world sunlight reaches indirectly. So try to create indirect light impression. Place some oil-proof sea green and qua lights in corner of the box. Also use some light on roof, walls and up roof of box. Scatter small lamps on side table to create an indirect light impression. You can also make it more decorative by wrapping it with blue or green fabric.

Fish Reflection

If there are a small number of fish in your tank then paste some pictures and wallpaper on the roof and walls of the box for the reflection of fishes. Stencil of the top of the wall should be repeating fish’s pictures. You can also dangle some rubber artificial fishes at the corner of the box.

Other Creatures

To give the natural sea environment, add some other wild sea insects and creatures. For this purpose you can use some handmade cork-made creatures or purchase light weight sea toys, like crab, starfish, jelly fish etc. Hang picture of dolphin and whales. Leave atleast one sea horses on the wooden floor and draw some picture of ocean rooms on the bottom of the water.

For Traditional touch

To make your pet box stylish and traditional then add some artificial old Asian architects style building, hosts house or a fantasy house.  Leave in water a short number of Rubber/ synthetic coral, organics, dead coral, real shells, live algae, novelty items, Pirate, mermaid and scuba divers etc.

Plants

For fresh look, add different kind of plants. You can also make your own plants but avoid using sharp-edged plants and wild flowers It can injured fish.

Algae

Algae are also most important part of the fish tank. It gives to sea a natural look. Also add some driftwood pieces.

Rocks (with round edges)

Rocks are also very important to enhance box decoration and grace. Different color and size of rocks are available to decorate your fish box. All these things will give your fish a sense of living in natural water and atmosphere.

It is no matter that fish box is beautiful or not but it should be cleaned and wide.  Fishes can be kept in any kind of fish box. Normally for fishes, fish boxes are utilized of:

• Wooden fish box
• Metal Fish Box
• Copper Fish Box

How to Keep Clean a Fish Box

1. First of all, put off your fish from the tank and keep it in some other tank in water but keep in mind, water temperature should be constant in which you are putting your pet.
2. Then empty your pet box by removing filled water as well as small food pieces. Also wash out every decoration piece that is inner side of the box.
3. Clean your fish box and refill it with fresh water.
4. Leave it for about one hour and let the water temperature be adjusted with room temperature whether it is cool or warm. Because water temperature should match with room temperature.
5. After one hour, put your fish back into the box.  It is better to keep your fish in net just for some time then releases it.
6. This procedure should be revised after one or two weeks.
7. If your do not have enough water for change then change its one quarter part. In case of less filtration chemical you can also change half portion of water.

Important Things for the Box cleaning

Material that is required for fish box/tank cleaning:

1. A spare bowl in which you keep fish during box cleaning.
2. Gloves to hold the fish.
3. Water to clean the box.
4. A tooth brush to clean the small size decoration pieces and corner of tank.
5. Paper towel to keep clean food bowl of fish
6. A razor to wipe out the stubborn. Always use plastic razor for acrylic bowls. Do not use stainless steel razor.
7. One spare container for the ornaments like plants, and gravels.
8. A drainer to eliminate water from the bowl.
9. One alga scrapers to remove the algae.
10. Scooping net to take away fishes. Its size should be according to your fish quantity. If you have one pet fish then a small size if enough or you have more than two or three then large size net is required to transfer the fishes.