The Pet Fish Care Blog

So, you have decided to rear pet fishes in your drawing room. Then, you should know the perfect list for maintain the same. Before bringing the pet fish to your home, you should know the basics of pet fish care.

Following are the calendar of operations for better maintenance of the fishes in your home aquarium.

Day-to-day Activities

You should not use soap to wash the bowl, which may act as a precursor for death of your fish. If you want to use your own well or bore water, you should treat the water with a special fish conditioner. The water should be changed once in 2-3 days. Your fish in the bowl should be fed daily.

Weekly Activities

You can clean your larger fish tank at least once a week. some of the fish owners advocating the practice of changing only 10-15% of water weekly once. All the other practices that are performing in the day-to-day activities should be repeated in the weekly activities.

Montly Package of Practices

Syphon out the bottom level gravel in your aquarium tank. The waste hides and debris in the bottom of the aquarium should be removed without fail.

Annual Maintenance Tips

Check the size of the fish in such a way that it won’t be too big for the bowl. This is the right time to change the present bowl to a larger one. Do check the air supplies and filters. If they need to be replaced, please do so.

Hope you have taken the above points to have a perfect pet fish care. But these points doesn’t hold if you are away from home leaving your pet fishes alone. So, read my next post Pet Fish Care
during travel.

So, you have decided to own a pet fish. It would definitely be a rewarding and exciting experience. But you should ask the question of - “How to take care of a pet fish?” well before you buy a pet fish for your home. Yes! You should know answer for this query, which is where pet fish care tips can come into the picture.

If you adhere to the following simple tips to take care of a pet fish, your fish will live long ever than you expected.

1.  Try to give more space for your fish TO ROAM inside the bowl or fish tank. You should keep in mind that the life of fish is also just like that of other animal. It will be growing daily.

2.  Don’t Overfeed your fish. Fishes don’t know that they are hungry or not. So they’ll eat continuously if you feed them for every hour. So feed them at least twice daily. For example a small gold fish of 30 gms requires only a  a finger full of food twice a day. That too you can sprinkle over the water on the tank.

3. Cleaning of the bowl should be done at least twice a week. Scum can build up on the glass and the dirt glass made the water to be unfit for the growth of the pet fishes.

4.  Don’t handle the fishes regularly! As they are cold blooded animals, handling them will lead them to succumb. Don’t treat fishes just like that of dogs or cats.

5.  Fish in bowl is not easy to care than the one in the aquarium tank for tropical water fishes. Hence it is advisable to raise the tropical fishes in aquarium tanks.

6.  The water should be changed twice a week. The new water to be introduced in the tank should be allowed to stand overnight to make the chlorine settle down at the bottom.

I am damn sure that your fish will lead a happy and healthy life if you strictly adhere to the above tips. Now you can easily answer the question to the person who is asking- “How to take care of a pet fish?”. Am I correct?