lilacamy931
Starting again
At the moment my obsession with fish as new to the hobby and have managed to infect other people into getting fish! Most are being responsible and researching or asking me to look up on particular species.
One person I work with, happened to look into a local fish store and ended up buying a special deal which I cringed with when she told me but not being expert on goldfish don't know what to advise. The deal was a 12.99 deal that had teh container, food, gravel and 2 goldfish supplied. She bought one of these deals, I do not believe that it has a filter.
She had them about a week, one fish has now died and the water apparently went cloudy, the other fish was also subdued. She explained that she had put the remaining fish in a bowl and that she had scrubbed and cleaned the tank out entirely and probably was not going to put the fish back into the tank as she thought it might have a disease and she may get more.
I explained frequent water changes were essential, she didnt appear to know what a filter was so tried to explain. I also asked her to contact the store and explain about the dead fish as I wanted her to talk to someone "expert" as what I said quite gently did not appear to sink in.
I assumed filters are essential for all fish to have a good quality of life, am I wrong. I also had someone else I worked with talk to her as this lady had 4 massive sized grown fish that are about 15 years old to try and make reality hit home.
Have I done all I can? The only other thing I thought of is that if there was a simple beginner set out guide that I could print off for her for basic care on goldfish that had these facts perhaps that would also help?
Sorry to blab on, im really new to fish but have never liked anything to suffer.
One person I work with, happened to look into a local fish store and ended up buying a special deal which I cringed with when she told me but not being expert on goldfish don't know what to advise. The deal was a 12.99 deal that had teh container, food, gravel and 2 goldfish supplied. She bought one of these deals, I do not believe that it has a filter.
She had them about a week, one fish has now died and the water apparently went cloudy, the other fish was also subdued. She explained that she had put the remaining fish in a bowl and that she had scrubbed and cleaned the tank out entirely and probably was not going to put the fish back into the tank as she thought it might have a disease and she may get more.
I explained frequent water changes were essential, she didnt appear to know what a filter was so tried to explain. I also asked her to contact the store and explain about the dead fish as I wanted her to talk to someone "expert" as what I said quite gently did not appear to sink in.
I assumed filters are essential for all fish to have a good quality of life, am I wrong. I also had someone else I worked with talk to her as this lady had 4 massive sized grown fish that are about 15 years old to try and make reality hit home.
Have I done all I can? The only other thing I thought of is that if there was a simple beginner set out guide that I could print off for her for basic care on goldfish that had these facts perhaps that would also help?
Sorry to blab on, im really new to fish but have never liked anything to suffer.
