goldifsh?????

Question

my daughter won a goldfish at the fair yesterday. we have a goldfish bowl. i dont want to spend 3000 dollars for a tank. she loves this golfish and doesnt want to leave him. what should we do?

Answer 1

Luckily, you don't need to spend $3000, you can go to a pet store and get a 20 gallon tank for about $40, get a filter that says it is for a 50 gallon tank (about $20), some water dechlorinator for $5, and you only spent $65 for you Goldfish. In a bowl, the Goldfish won't last more than a month.

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Answer 2

What ever you do, remember the basics about goldfish. They are cold water fish. They grow to 12-24 inches long depending on type of goldfish. Any fish kept in a tank too small will stop growing, but their innards will not stop. Think about this for a moment. I too would have a hard time justifying $3000 for a goldfish won at the fair. If it were my child who won the fish, I'd explain that, "If it is kept in a bolw or even a 10 gal tank, Its outsides will stop growing but not the insides. This is going to be hurt very bad up to the point it dies. How about we give him a better home at the petstore and bring back one of it's smaller friends who will be happier in a 10 gallon tank." Then let her pick out a fish from the following list:

Betta
Dwarf Gourami
Rusty cichlid

~These are likely going to be even more exotic and beautiful.
~They will not die an agonizing death in as small a tank as
10 gallons.
They will live for years, not weeks/months.

Answer 3

I also won 3 goldfish at a fair just a couple weeks ago. I went to the petstore, and I bought a goldfish starter kit for about $40.00, which included the filter and everything. It's 10 gallons. It's working pretty good for them so far!

Answer 4

oh my god, who told you that you have to spent $3000 ??????
You can go to walmart and buy a 10 gallon tank kit, which includes the filter, hood with light and light bulbs for about $30
Other things you need to buy are goldfish flakes $4, gravel siphon around $10, gravel around $10 for a 10 pound bag, and a water conditioner like Aqua Safe also about $6 a bottle

So that makes about $60, is that to much for taking proper care of a fish?????????????


And if you really care for that goldfish you take that advice and get a 10 gallon tank for him, otherwise he will be dead in less then a year

Hope that helps
Good luck



EB

Answer 5

Go to Walmart and get the 10 gallon starter kit.
It has everything you need to start and it's not expensive.
Make sure it includes a book on caring for them, if not, get one one the way home.
Follow the directions on de-chlorinating the water, and you're all set.

Good luck

EDIT:
BOWLS KILL FISH. That's probably not a concern of yours, but I just wanted to say the fish won't last long in a bowl.

Answer 6

just buy a little 20 dollar bowl gold fish arnt that big then buy 8 dollars of rocks for the tank hey i won a goldfish too it died in the next three days

Answer 7

A goldfish bowl is fine. They do not necessarily need a tank. Mine was fine and healthy in a bowl.

Answer 8

The goldfish bowl should work fine, just make sure you purify the water with a made-for-fish-bowl purifyier.

Answer 9

Kepp the goldfish bowl.
Just remeber that fish have needs to:
Clean water, appropraite feeding, water temperature, and belive it or not, they can get lonely.
Depending on the fish, get a buddy for him, so that your daughter may feel better about leaving him.

Answer 10

There are far cheaper tanks out there, speak to your pet shop owners.