Sunday, July 24, 2011

Gold Fish

About The Fish

  

The goldfish (Carassius auratus auratus) is a freshwater fish It was one of the earliest fish to be domesticated, and is one of the most commonly kept aquarium fish.
the goldfish is a domesticated version of a less colorful Fish which is the carp (Carassius auratus) native to east Asia. It was first domesticated in China more than a thousand years ago Goldfish has many colors and body shapes u can find colors like white, yellow, orange, red, brown, and black 

Description 

the Fish has many kinds with different looking but they share the colors full looking and the long fins and here is some pics will show you different kinds of this popular fish also goldfish have life span in captivity extend to 10 years or more .

Bubble Eye

 
Black Moor


Common goldfish
 

Fantail


Comet
 

Celestial Eye


Pearlscale
 

Oranda


Lionhead
 

Ryukin


Behavior 



gold fish have learning Abilities and they have very sharp visual allows them to notice the different between individual humans and the fish is very friendly towards each others or any other fish also the fish almost eat any thing and you can notice that your goldfish will come to the water surface and asks for food and start to move around in the tank and which is sweet behavior and that make it one of the most beloved fishes.

Temperature


Goldfish known as cool water fish it can live in unheated aquariums but not less than 10 °C (50 °F) it could lead the fish to its death and 
also not higher than 30 °C (86 °F) 

Tank 


Goldfish grown fast when you care about the feeding 
so you need minimum 20 gallon tank to raise 
a goldfish and u cam simply calculate this by simple 
Equation (1cm fish need 2 liter = 0.53 gallon) 
which giving free space for swimming . and you dont 
have to add live plants to your tank coz the fish will eat it .

Diet 


Goldfish feed on wide varieties of foods they don't stop feeding as long as they can find the food lol ,they can eat insects - plants - blood worms








 

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