Goldfish

What a lovely pet a goldfish can make! We have had quite a few since my eldest son was born and he's quite worn off the goldfish idea but his 6 year old brother loves them! When we had our first one I had a round plastic fish bowl, but I suddenly remembered that my brother had been given a mini glass tank for his birthday one year so I nagged my mum for it! We had a little fish, with blue stones and glass fish which were floating around fantastically......All was well untill we moved and the workmen hit the tank with a big metal pole which at first didn't seem to have done any damage, it wasn't untill 4 hours later I noticed the water level was dropping ...  Read the complete review

About six months ago now, my mum won a tenner on the thunderball, and for some reason she decided the perfect thing to spend her money on would be a goldfish for my daughter. Now, I wouldn't have minded if she wanted to keep it at her house, but oh no - she purchased a tank, gravel, weed, food, and fish and dragged it all round to my house. This bundle cost her a little over £12, due to a special offer the shop had on . I tried to look delighted , I really did, and I think she believed I was impressed by her wonderful gift to my daughter - a gift that I would have to clean, feed, and generally look after. My daughter was happy enough to have a fish, ...  Read the complete review

I've pretty much had a goldfish all my life. Right from when I was a young children, begging my mum for a puppy, I got a goldfish for Christmas. When that died a couple of years later, my mum replaced it as another way to deter my eagerness for a dog. Every goldfish has been replaced since my first one, and now that I've moved out and left home, I still have a goldfish. During my teens, I was getting bored of this goldfish and probably didn't give it as much love and care as it deserved, but somehow this has seemed to make it stronger, and the current goldifsh I own is 6 years old, much older than any of my previous fish lasted for. Goldfish don't ...  Read the complete review

Probably one of the most boring and cheap pets you can get but on the plus side if you look after them probably they seem to be imortal especially if you just have the one and put water plants in with the fish. When I was four years of age I desperately wanted a a pet of any description so that christmas myparents bought me a fish tank with five fish. two where fan tails like the ones in the picture, two were quite ordinary goldfish and one was quite small in comparison. In the first few weeks the fan tal fish died then about seven years on one of the big fish died then maybe ten years on the other large fish died. However sixteen years on from its ...  Read the complete review

People have a lot of miss conceptions about fish as pets, and fish in general. Maybe this is because they are not classed as an animal (the RSPCA does not have any responsibility over them), maybe it's because we can't touch them. Whatever the reason fish still do however, make very entertaining pets. The main problem people have is the set-up costs. With Cats, dogs, rabbits etc the set-up cost is lower but the on going cost is higher. So what will you need to start fish keeping (gold fish)? - Tank (2inches of fish per US gallon of water -most gold fish grow to about 5-7cm) - gravel -Plants (plastic or real. The real ones do get ...  Read the complete review