How to Care For Goldfish - 3 Stages of Caring For Goldfish

How to care for goldfish can be explained like doing a puzzle. If you are doing a puzzle, your desired outcome is to have a nice puzzle, and nice it needs to be. You don't want pieces to be on the wrong place, otherwise your puzzle will not be like it needs to be, you will not see what you want to see.

Caring for goldfish is the same, it's putting small pieces together. And the desired outcome can be healthy looking goldfish in a nice looking aquarium with nice plants, some nice accessories, rocks and many more things. When you do your puzzle, you probably know how it will look like because you've seen the front of the box. When you want to care for goldfish, you probably also know what you want, if I would ask you why you want a goldfishes, could you describe it for me?

That's a nice looking tank you want!!!

Stage 1

But to have a nice looking tank with healthy fish you need to know how to care for goldfish, you need to put the pieces together. Like in a puzzle, the first piece is already done, you know you want a nice looking tank with healthy fish. Now you need to know what kind of goldfish you want. There are different kinds of goldfish, and some of them can't be in the same tank.

The next step in stage 1 is to decide where you want to place your tank, and how big the tank needs to be. Don't place the tank in direct sunlight, air-conditioning vents, and heaters or it will influence the water temperature, the sun can warm up the water and that's not good for your goldfish.

When you decide all these things it's time for the next stage.

Stage 2

Now it's time to buy your equipment and aquarium, you will need a heater, filter, lights, gravel, food and a net to transfer the fish when needed.

After you bought everything it's time to install all of it. Be sure to wash the gravel with gravel washer. And buy only aquarium-safe products, because many things can be toxic for your goldfish.

Stage 3

At stage 3 you buy your goldfish, and put them in the tank with the floating method.

Now you have your beautiful goldfish aquarium. But that's not all, until now it was all easy, now comes the fun.

Maintaining your tank, now you will need to:
- maintain the water quality,
- feed your fish right, always at the same time and don't overfeed them,
- watch out for diseases,
- change weekly until 25% of the water, and
- wash every 2 weeks the whole aquarium.

But the most important part of all is to keep the water clean. Most goldfish diseases are caused by bad water quality. If you keep the water clean you will prevent most goldfish diseases and your goldfishes will for many years.