Hello everyone. I'm new on the site and to fish-keeping.
I started wanting an aquarium cos winters are too long and dark, intending to take my time about it, but we had the opportunity to take on someone's fish so we leapt right in.
We've got a couple of ordinary-looking goldfish that apparently had been living in the bowl that came with them for 7 years. One's a bit bigger than the other but they're about 3-4 inches. They came in a plastic bag accompanied by the bowl and gravel (still damp) so we dumped the gravel into a small tank we'd already acquired, topped up halfway with filtered tap water warmed to room temp and bunged in the fish before they suffocated. We topped up the tank in stages over the next day or so till we could turn the filter on. For the first day or so they were a bit stunned but once the filter was on they started charging round like nutters.
The tank we first put them in was bigger than the bowl but at 17 litres was till far too small; so after about a month we moved 36l tank. After the initial fill-up we've been using a dechlorinator on the water.
My biggest question at this point is - will they start growing now or is 7 years long enough to permanently restrict their size?
I started wanting an aquarium cos winters are too long and dark, intending to take my time about it, but we had the opportunity to take on someone's fish so we leapt right in.
We've got a couple of ordinary-looking goldfish that apparently had been living in the bowl that came with them for 7 years. One's a bit bigger than the other but they're about 3-4 inches. They came in a plastic bag accompanied by the bowl and gravel (still damp) so we dumped the gravel into a small tank we'd already acquired, topped up halfway with filtered tap water warmed to room temp and bunged in the fish before they suffocated. We topped up the tank in stages over the next day or so till we could turn the filter on. For the first day or so they were a bit stunned but once the filter was on they started charging round like nutters.
The tank we first put them in was bigger than the bowl but at 17 litres was till far too small; so after about a month we moved 36l tank. After the initial fill-up we've been using a dechlorinator on the water.
My biggest question at this point is - will they start growing now or is 7 years long enough to permanently restrict their size?
