How to Make a Goldfish Live Longer

Video Transcript

"I spent a lot of time picking out my fish. Exactly the one I liked and personality wise, so I want him to live long. My name is Michael, and we're going to talk about how to make your goldfish live longer. One thing that's really important, is the quality of your water, so whenever you set up your water tank, you want to make sure you're using a product, that's going to remove the chlorines, chloramines, and ammonias out of your tank, so water quality is very important. We want to feed him a good fish food, one that's rich in seafood proteins, low in ash, and we want to make sure that we keep his tank cleaned, on a regular basis. When you do clean his tank, it's going to depend on him, how much you're feeding him, how dirty his bowl gets, so it could be every couple of days, that you change his water out. It could be once a week. Again it's going to depend on the fish himself, but if you take your tank, and you pour all of his contents into another bowl, with him in it. You can then take out your plants and your gravel, clean those out. Take your bowl itself, make sure you wash that out. Don't ever use soap in it. Regular water, cleaning it out, rinsing it really well, should be all that you need. Set your tank back up again. Make sure you use the proper chemicals in it. Let the water acclimate. Let the bowl sit for a couple of hours, and you've got him over in your other water. Use your net once that time has been reached, and get him out of his old water, and put him into his new water, and feed him. When you do feed him, you want to feed him only as much that he's going to eat in just a couple of minute period, and we're going to limit that to just a couple of times a day. Like I said, I really like my goldfish. It took me a while to pick out exactly the one that was right for me, so I want him to live quite awhile. My name is Michael, and keep your goldfish safe and happy, and give them a long life."