Does anyone of you have fish at your place ?

Yesterday someone gifted 2 medium sized gold fish in a nice lookin round glass bowl. By this evening one of them died 🙁 I have a feeling they were overfed. Does anyone know how much of those small pellets should I feed em ? and also how often ? I found some info here but I still dont know how often to feed them

20 Comments

  1. itsjoy · August 2, 2003 Reply

    feed them just once a day – just 3-4 pellets per fish.
    presoak the pellets like the site says.

  2. admin · August 2, 2003 Reply

    3 -4 of those small things will be enough for whole day ?

  3. itsjoy · August 2, 2003 Reply

    yup.. thats all they need.
    at least thats what they survived on when i had a fish tank!

  4. admin · August 2, 2003 Reply

    Damn 🙁

    My sister has put about 10 of them last night and another 10 this morning. 🙁

    I’ve cleaned out the tank now and don’t intend to feed any pellets till tomorrow morning.

  5. itsjoy · August 2, 2003 Reply

    Re: Damn 🙁

    rookie mistake.. at least u got away with only 1.. the first day i had my tank, it was a massacre.
    learn and let live!

  6. admin · August 2, 2003 Reply

    Re: Damn 🙁

    Wish they just ate when they go hungry 🙁

  7. shradha · August 2, 2003 Reply

    Re: Damn 🙁

    even humans don’t do that dammit!

  8. admin · August 2, 2003 Reply

    Re: Damn 🙁

    well, atleast we dont kill ourselves by over eating ( though I did attempt that many times 😀 )

  9. tariquesani · August 2, 2003 Reply

    As far as I can recall from my 12th std Fisheries – the fish dont die of over eating. What really happens that the leftover food is rapidly attacked by bacteria which multiply and deplete the oxygen from the water.

    Thus the fish suffocate 🙁

    So you in the first place dont give much 2-3 pellets once is enough. If you have a doubt then have that small pump which areates water

    Also remember this rule of thumb for Water to Fish ratio

    Non areated Tank – 1 inch fish per gallon
    Partially areated tank – 2 inch fish per gallon
    24 hrs areated tank – 3 inch fish per gallon

    Inch here is the approx combined length of fishes minus the fins

  10. achitnis · August 2, 2003 Reply

    You won’t believe this, but it is a fact (veteran of several aquariums):

    DON’T CHANGE THE WATER

    I repeat:

    DON’T CHANGE THE WATER

    The thing that kills fishes is (ironically) fresh water. The theory behind it is complex (there is a lot of chemistry involved), but I learnt it the hard way.

    Don’t overfeed them either – once a day is enough, and very little (remember, they do *not* need the quantities of food you need – so don’t look at yourself in the mirror and decide the quantity based on that).

    Goldfish are actually pretty hardy creatures – it takes a lot to kill them – which means you did something awfully wrong 😉

    They will survive in a glass goldfish bowl as long as you have a small water plant or two in there to act as oxygen exchanger (an airpump in a bowl is a bit silly and may be overkill). And don’t cover the bowl – a goldfish bowl needs to be exposed to the air at the top.

    Finally, I suggest you go and talk to an actual aquarium owner (preferably one who has been able to keep them alive for a while). The best guy I can point you at is G.G.Raj, and old CIX mate of mine. What he doesn’t know about aquariums you can hide under your finger nail. Call me for contact info.

  11. prady · August 3, 2003 Reply

    What a thread dude ! Seems like we can make a Aquarium Howto with the info from here.

  12. abiligiri · August 4, 2003 Reply

    Now you know how many pellets to eat if you are born as a fish in your next birth 😛

  13. grecianurn · August 4, 2003 Reply

    My cousin had a couple of goldfish or something in a Horlicks bottle… I was so fascinated by them that I fed them every hour. The fish died, and my cousin was bloody pissed off with me because he knew no one else had gone near it, but he never asked, and I never told him.

    And I wasn’t even too young to know better… must’ve been 12 or 13.

  14. admin · August 4, 2003 Reply

    I’d probabily eat em all and die before any oterh fish dies in the tank :))

  15. admin · August 4, 2003 Reply

    hehe

    atleast now you know 🙂

    Looks like everyone learns this the hard way

    p.s- the second fish is doing good so far 🙂

  16. grecianurn · August 4, 2003 Reply

    Re: hehe

    Yeah, can’t believe the number of people who’ve killed fish 🙂

    Yay for the second fish. Just make sure you don’t make it anorexic.

    Oh, and thinking about it now, I don’t think my cousin had goldfish. Don’t think they’d fit too well into a Horlicks bottle. I think they were much tinier.

  17. shradha · August 4, 2003 Reply

    Re: Damn 🙁

    u have?
    just curious…what did u eat??

  18. shradha · August 4, 2003 Reply

    Re: Damn 🙁

    u have??!!:D
    just curious…what did u eat??

  19. sanjeev_dwivedi · September 1, 2004 Reply

    Gold Fish and a Bowl

    From various sources on the net I have come to know that contrary to the myth goldfish are not meant for a bowl. They easily grow to several inches and they poop a lot, polluting the water. Two goldfish in a bowl is twice as bad.

    Also regarding water change, you need to take the advice with a grain of salt. Yes, water change is stressful for the fish but you can minimize the shock by (1)conditioning the water with dechlorinator if you use tap water (2)leaving the water in the same room as the aquarium for around an hour or more so it gets to the same temperature as the water. The fish will quickly create a high level of nitrites in the water (especially in a bowl, which tends to get polluted real quick) which will kill them if the water is not changed.

    A related web page is here:
    http://www.bestfish.com/bowl.html

    Also from: http://www.aquarticles.com/articles/management/Sohal_My_Experiences.html

    “I think that tank will count for a smallest tank contest, it’s 12 inches in length, six inches in width and seven inches in height. I plan to keep two bettas, one red, one blue, in the tank, separated with a black or white plastic sheet. However, my girl says that the betta seems very boring, and that her family is asking for a goldfish. I explained to her that a goldfish cannot survive in the small tank for long, so now I’m kinda stuck for ideas about stocking such a small tank.”

    Search and you will find more. Water changes are not much recommended in larger aquariums of 20+gallons. But even there people recommend 10-15% water change every week and complete water change in a month or two. These aquariums contain filters, water aeration systems and so on…

    Best fish for a small bowl (around a gallon) is a betta, the siamese fighting fish because it can breathe from the surface directly and hence lessen the impact of your mistakes (such as irregular water changes and so on.)

    Regarding the feeding, I guess you need to look at the fish and the kind of food you are feeding. Somewhere I read that the stomach of a fish is almost as big as its eyeballs. So do not feed more than two or three pellets at one time.

    —–
    Sanjeev
    http://pratapgarh.com

  20. admin · September 1, 2004 Reply

    Re: Gold Fish and a Bowl

    Thanks for the advice.

    One of the fish has died… now the other one is doing fine so far 🙂

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