Right. The decision has been made. The fish are moving to one of the residential offices here, back to their original owner (with supervision!).
Am a bit sad :|
But for now, if anyone would like to help me put together a list of 'this is what you need to do, how much and why', that would be really appreciated (as I'm sure I haven't yet learnt enough about goldfish to do a full and proper list)
So far I have:
- get a 130l + tank for them within the next year
- buy a water testing kit. keep checking water daily until the tank has cycled
- how to tell if a tank has cycled (er, I find this bit tricky to explain...)
- buy a book on how to care for goldfish
- add tap conditioner whenever doing water change
- 50% water change every week once cycled until bigger tank is obtained
- put them somewhere not too busy, not too hot, not in a window
- make sure one person is consistently responsible for them
What else? I'm sure that's not enough! And yes, this is partially because I am really fretting about them not being in my care any more
as I tend not to trust other people to be competent