It sometimes appears to me that the indoor goldfish get blase', bored. I change around their decorative rocks from time to time to change up their environment, create a new swimming obstacle. This week I added a well-washed plastic Dole cup (the kind fruit comes in). It floats around til it hits the waterfall flow, then swoons down in the current. Blitzen, our largest goldfish, seems to like sticking his head into it, bopping it. Shebunkin, the one who I was specifically hoping to amuse, doesn't pay one bean of attention to it at all. I'm still looking for toy ideas for him....
Update on the Dole Play-Cup - I wouldn't recommend it! Poor little Brutus somehow got himself entirely into the cup as it floated upward to the top of the tank, then rode in it like a floating child's boat. His flopping was reducing the amount of water in the floating upright cup when we heard and realized what was happening. Good thing we were home!
ReplyDeleteI guess I should have added the disclaimer "Don't try this at home" to the above post!
as you said great that you where at home when that happened imagine how bad you would have felt if something went wrong...
ReplyDeletedid you found some other tools for them to play with? ever heard bout the fish school kit? I don't know if it really works but on the vids they show how to train your fish to bring back a ball you throw in the water..
just google it you'll see
I'll make a vid of my fishes and post it here aswell..
here you go a link to my fishes
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qp3lMDCisA
Sopje, your fish are GORGEOUS!! It almost looks like they were watching the tv? Your shubunkin has a beautiful tail.
ReplyDeleteI had not heard of fish school kit, but will definitely check it out and google it, thank you!
The plants in your tank: are they real or artificial? They look so pretty.
this is the link for the school kit
ReplyDeletehttp://www.fish-school.com/
the plant you can see in my tank is an artificial one. I normally use real plants but i have had an algue plague and for now i decided till i'm sure that one is gone that i'm going to use artificial as i can clean those when they are algued :D
ReplyDeleteThank you for the fish-school link :) It is quite the package. Thinking maybe rig a few little hoops and tunnels up myself...hmmm...
ReplyDeleteI looked at your video again.....gorgeous orange and chocolate colour, love her "lipstick"
I saw on tv that goldfish knows how to play soccer if you train them like a dog.
ReplyDeleteits true and they are nosey enough to challenge anything interesting. like a ping pong ball...
Deletei have 2-15 inch common goldfish in a 60 gallon tank just scored a 135 acrylic tank for my commons... i live in an up stairs apartment worried about 1100 lbs so need to even out weight so i must make my own stand even though i do have original. ANY SUGGESTIONS??????? I THOUGHT OF 4 BY 4 BOARD ON FLOOR 7 or 8 feet TO SPREAD OUT ALL THAT WEIGHT. i want tank maybe 2 feet off ground so easier to clean.
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