Kinds of Goldfish Disease

Health of goldfish is closely connected with goldfish living environment. This means that if the aquarium or pond are routinely treated condition and water cleanliness, the goldfish disease can be minimized. Despite sometimes with intense aquarium care goldfish can still contract the disease. For that in addition to providing intensive care we must always examine the behavior of goldfish, especially if we nurture young goldfish. Fancy goldfish are more prone to various diseases, including bacterial, viral, and fungal when the environmental conditions he lived less than ideal.

There are two symptoms that indicate common goldfish infected with disease. First is the physical symptoms that can occur in the goldfish body and the second is the changing behavior of the goldfish.

Some general physical symptoms of a sick goldfish among others:

Housing and Breeding Common Goldfish

Housing of Common Goldfish

Common Goldfish should ideally be kept in an aquarium at least 10 gallons or 37 L with a good filter, and no heating, because this fish can be larger than 12 inches (34 cm). Tank recommendations range up to 75 gallons or 283 L. In the aquarium, common goldfish must have sufficient oxygen, particularly when it is warm, an air pump with an airstone or bubble strip will work well. Common goldfish will die without sufficient dissolved oxygen in the water. A filter that can do at least 10x filtration is best, which means that for every 10 gallons or litres of water, the filter should be able to cycle 100 gallons or litres per hour.

Goldfish History

In ancient China, various species of carp (collectively known as Asian carps) had been domesticated  and reared as food fish for thousands of years. Some of these normally gray or silver species have a tendency to produce red, orange or yellow color mutations, this was first recorded in the Jin Dynasty (265–420).

During the Tang Dynasty (618–907), it was popular to raise carp in ornamental ponds and watergardens. Due to a natural genetic mutation, some of these carp displayed gold (actually yellowish orange) rather than silver coloration. People began to breed the gold variety instead of the silver variety, and began to display them in small containers. The fish were not kept in the containers permanently, but would be kept in a larger body of water, such as an outdoor pond, and only for special occasions at which guests were expected would they be moved to the much smaller container.

About Goldfish

One of the most pupular commonly kept aquarium fish is a goldfish. Goldfish (Carassius auratus auratus) was one of the earliest fish  to be domesticated of a dark-gray/olive/brown carp native to east Asia (first domesticated in China) . They are relatively small member of the carp family (which also includes the koi carp and the crucian carp). Then in the late 17th century goldfish was introduced to Europe.