The Pet Fish Care Blog

Do you know Bettas are native of Southeast Asia? In ancient days Bettas are mostly noticed in the rice paddy fields. The rice paddies are not so deep as you think. It is just ten feet depth only. Regarding Betta origins there are so many theories. In the wild, the Bettas are usually dull colored and short finned. Due to natural selective breeding, they have developed the bright colors and longer fin types.

As many know, Bettas are also known as “Siamese Fighting Fish”. The Betta fishes are native of the following countries of South-east Asia-

• Thailand
• Malaysia
• Indonesia

In nature, the basic color of Betta fishes is yellow. The genes responsible for basic color may present or absent in the Betta fish. If your Betta fish contains blue gene, you can expect bluish green, metallic blue, or royal blue. Most of us like to go for beautiful royal blue owing to the reason of mixture of the other blues.

Betta origins are the wonder of genetics. Yes!!! Nature played an important role in Betta fish color and fins.

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.

You should maintain a perfect temperature of the waters in a fish aquarium because this is a basic step in pet fish care. The temperature of a fresh water fish  should be  between 74-78  degrees Celcius.

If the aquarium temperature tend to fall, you can make use of aquarium heaters to control the water temperature.

The tropical fishes would be healthy only during the small optimum temperature window, which means 76-80 degrees Celcius. Any time you buy a new fish, you should strict on to this optimal window. If the temperature sligthly above or below this range, your fishes life would be in danger.

To have a healthy pet fish care, please keep this point in mind to maintain a hale and healthy life of your fish.

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?