Comments on: Taking care of a Goldfish

By: Jadawn

Jadawn — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:00:34 +0000

he is probably sick and about to die (maybe) or if not try putting your fish in tonic salt

and it is best to have a filter

heater is optional cuz they are cold water fish

hope your fish gets better:)

By: Mz

Mz — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:58:06 +0000

there are some fishes like the red rosy barb etc which are aggressive against goldfish specifically

as long as these aint in wid ur goldfishes,it’l do well with ur other fishes :]

By: w

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:27:48 +0000

Hey there.

A goldfish generally won’t need a heater unless you’re keeping it somewhere seriously cold, like a refrigerator. They’re coldwater fish.

The filter is another story. Not providing your fish with at the very least a filter that produces bubbles (or preferably a dedicated filter and a dedicated aerator) is like keeping a dog in a sealed box and not bothering to drill air holes in it because “it seems silly for one dog in a box by itself”.

If your goldfish was eating, it was also producing waste. Without a filter working to help deplete the buildup of waste chemicals in the water (only helping–you’d still have to change the water periodically) and an aerator re-introducing oxygen, your fish probably either suffocated to death or was poisoned by toxic waste buildup.

By: kiwifish

kiwifish — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 01:22:22 +0000

Hi Sophie,
the biggest problem is the water, tap water is no good for fish, so you have to use something called water ager, from pet stores or the supermarket pet section. Follow directions on the bottle but its usually about 5ml/20 liters. You have to put some in every time you change the water.
Reguards the filter, that would be a good idea otherwise you have to do it manually with a tube (like siphoning petrol) which is pretty yuk and also get some waterweed to put a bit of oxygen back into the tank.
So for the next fish fill his tank and add the water ager, put his bag in the tank still sealed and leave him there for 20 mins, then open the bag and put half a cup of the tank water in with him and re seal the bag (with a bit of air) and leave for another 20 mins. Then you can let him out.
If he does ever get sick, tonic salt (NOT table salt) works wonders, pull him out and put him in a 2 liter container with 1/4 teaspoon of tonic salt mixed in the water and he should come right. Ive left mine like that over night and they recover nicely.
Anyway, enough of my rambling,
Good luck!
Kiwifish

By: balaji

balaji — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:13:23 +0000

can we put gold fish along with other fishes like black moly, white angel fishes. In my tank i have 20 fishes with 5 different types? Is this cause problem?

By: sophie

sophie — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 08:23:59 +0000

I won a goldfish at our fair like the person above.
I made sure it was fed properly it was swimming fine, then all of a sudden I went to check it (had just checked it a couple hours sooner) & it was dead.
I made sure it was dead, not just laying at the bottom like you all said yours have been doing.
My boyfriend says it’s because we needed to get a filter & heater and all of that for it. To me that seems silly for one goldfish in a bowl by itself.
Should I have gotten those things?

By: Carl

Carl — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 03:52:34 +0000

No!! We had a fish that was laying for days like he says .. We thought he was dead but after some time he randomly came back up..

By: Dylan

Dylan — Tue, 31 May 2011 19:17:54 +0000

i know what you mean. i just won a fish at my local fair and all it does is lay at the bottom ….the food i give him usually floats at the top…..but when i get home, its all gone. i never see him go to the top, but either he does, or the food sinks and he eats it.

By: g

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:55:28 +0000

he’s probably dead!

By: Mr.Jackson

Mr.Jackson — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:49:30 +0000

My gold fish has been laying at the bottom of his tank for a day or so, the water was cloudy so we changed the water and it has been a day and he still just lays on the ground. Why?