Happy Goldfish now has a page for you to upload your goldfish photos, so get snapping and head over to the upload page to send in your goldfish photos. We hope to have a gallery live on the website in a week’s time (10th November), and the first photos to be sent in will be on the first page of the gallery.
Aquatic snails come in all shapes, sizes and colours. Their individual attractiveness is a matter of taste, but they certainly give an aquarium a more natural look, and perform some very useful functions to boot. Unfortunately, there are also some pitfalls that need to be avoided when keeping snails in a goldfish tank.
More proof (if proof was needed) that goldfish are not 3-second memory organisms that don’t know how to have fun!
Here are 4 videos of 3 different artists painting goldfish using ink. Each artist’s style is their own, but they all know the meaning of the word subtle, and give wonderful demonstrations of a steady hand.
Although terms like red self-coloured metallic can appear almost meaningless, the system of goldfish colouring is not nearly as complicated as if first appears.
1. Made to live in a bowl
Almost everybody knows it, but plenty of people do it. Goldfish that live in a bowl do not get enough oxygen, are exposed to disease, and usually die young. If they are unlucky enough to survive into adulthood, they will be too big for the bowl and suffer from deformities. It is cruel. Don’t do it.
Putting other coldwater fish in with goldfish is not just a matter of going to the petshop, buying anything that can survive in coldwater and putting it in with goldfish. A whole world of problems is just around the corner for those who think it’s anything other than advanced goldfish keeping.
Over 1,000 years ago during the Tang Dynasty, the Chinese started to selectively breed crucian carp that had a genetic mutation which produced golden fish. Ever since, the goldfish has played a major role in Chinese culture and art. (more…)
First of all, let’s make it perfectly clear that goldfish feel pain, and they remember it. They have a memory considerably longer than 3 seconds and are capable of complex behaviour.
So if a goldfish is suffering from an illness that cannot be cured or even treated, what is the best way of ending its suffering?