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How to Choose
A Home for Your Fish
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This
page
discusses choosing a Fish Bowl, Aquarium,
or Pond as a home for your fish. It is important
to choose the appropriate home for fish.
If
you've already decided on the fish you want to keep,
then click
here for advice on what kind of home your fish
will need.
This
page will help you choose a home first then advise
you on the appropriate fish for that home.
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Just below is a quick list of the
four choices of a home for your fish.
Farther down on the page are more details about
each of these choices.
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1.
A Fish Bowl
is usually the simplest and least expensive home
for fish, and fish bowls work well with a limited
variety and limited number of fish. |
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Click
here to listen to a Special Show
titled "Fish Bowls", an MP3 PodCast, hosted
by the Bailey Brothers on Pet Fish Talk.
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2. A Cool Water Aquarium
should have a good external filter to increase the
life support system. This makes a Cool Water Aquarium
more expensive and more complicated than a Fish
Bowl, but a larger variety and larger number of
fish can live in a Cool Water Aquarium, and yet
it requires no more maintenance than a Fish Bowl.
3. A Warm Water Aquarium
has an aquarium heater and a thermometer, making
it more expensive and more complicated than a Cool
Water Aquarium. But there is a very large variety
of beautiful and interesting Tropical Fish, that
can only live in a Warm Water Aquarium.
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4. A Pond
can vary greatly in size and life support systems
for the fish. There are just a few types of fish
that are kept in most Ponds, but these types have
a great variety of shapes and color patterns.
There
is more information given below on this page about
each of these four choices of a home for your fish.
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Customer Comments
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I like this web site i've
been to others but yours
seems to offer alot of information.
Other web sites you need
the scientific names of
fish (and who knows all
them) yours is down to earth,
people can understand stuff
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Kathy H.
Ravenswood, W.Va. 26164
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1. Fish Bowls
Fish Bowls are generally the smallest and least
expensive home for fish. Most fish bowls do not
have heaters so the water in the fish bowl is at
room temperature, and most fish bowls do not have
a filter or even bubbling air to increase the water's
circulation.
So
the life support system in a fish bowl is minimal
and there are only a few kinds of fish and other
animals that do well in fish bowls.
Goldfish
do not do well in fish bowls. Even one small goldfish,
if provided with adequate food and care, will soon
grow too big for any fish bowl. Click
here
for more information about Fish Bowls.
One
Male Betta or one
Female Betta, plus three
Ghost Shrimp, one
Black Mystery Snail, and a few
Live Plants will do well in a one-gallon fish
bowl without any extra equipment. Click
here for more information about Fish Bowl Kit,
and click
here
for more about Good Fish for Fish Bowls.
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2. Cool Water Aquariums
A Cool Water Aquarium is easier to keep than a Fish
Bowl. Your Cool Water Aquarium should have an
external
power filter with a BIO-Wheel. Fish can live
in an aquarium without gravel, without a cover,
without a light, and without ornaments, but every
aquarium should have a good external filter not
just an air-stone or bubble-wand. Click
here for more information about Cool Water Aquariums.
So
the life support system in a Cool Water Aquarium
is better and more expensive than in a Fish Bowl.
Click
here for more information about Cool Water Aquariums.
Fancy Fantail Goldfish,
White Clouds, Crabs, Ghost Shrimp, Tadpoles, Mystery
Snails, and Live Plants all do well in a cool water
aquarium, and all can eat the same food such as
TetraFin Flakes. Click
here for more about good fish for Cool Water
Aquariums.
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3. Warm Water Aquariums
A Warm Water Aquarium is more expensive and requires
more skill to maintain than a Cool Water Aquarium.
The water is usually kept in the temperature range
of 78 to 80 degrees F. by an aquarium heater which
is adjusted by looking at a small thermometer kept
in the aquarium. Click
here for more information about Warm Water Aquariums.
The heater and thermometer
add to the expense and complexity of the aquarium.
The higher temperature makes things happen faster
in a Warm Water Aquarium where the fish are usually
more active, often more aggressive, and problems
occur more frequently and progress faster. Click
here for more information about Warm Water Aquariums.
It's
easier to start with a fish bowl or a Cool Water
Aquarium, then after you've gained some experience,
graduate to the increased complexity of a Warm Water
Aquarium.
The
advantage of a Warm Water Aquarium is the greater
variety of fish with increased color, odd shapes,
and interesting behaviors. Click
here for more information about good fish for
Warm Water Aquariums.
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4. Fish Ponds
Fish Ponds can vary from half an old whiskey barrel
with a plastic liner to huge concrete structures.
Click
here to see pictures of my Pond in a barrel.
Very
rarely do Ponds have a heater but some Ponds do
have a filter or a pump with recirculating water
that increases the number of fish the Pond can accommodate.
There are two good
groups of fish for fish Ponds. The first group includes
Pond Comets and Koi, the second group includes Fantails
and other Fancy Goldfish.
These two groups
are not compatible with each other because the fish
in the first group swim faster and are more aggressive
than fish in the second group.
Often the fish in
the first group eat most of the food and nip the
fins of the fish in the second group. Click
here for more information about these two groups
of Goldfish and some additional information about
a third group.
Click
here
for more information about Ponds and keeping fish
in Ponds.
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Click
here
to read Customer Comments and our Replies about
Choosing a Home for Your Fish. |
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About our Fish Photographs ...
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Almost all the photographs and videos, shown on this web site, were taken
by us in our aquariums of our fish. Compare the healthy,
beautiful, energetic fish in our beautiful aquariums to the
fish in our competitors pictures. Their fish often look thin
with clamped fins and poor color.
We buy the highest quality fish, produced by the best fish
farms or caught by the best collectors of wild fish, then we take incredibly good care of our fish in our beautiful aquariums. If you compare the pictures on this site to our competitors pictures, you can instantly see, our fish and aquariums are better!
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