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Goldfish Pond- Cleaning and Pond Spring Start Up Tips

Now that spring has arrived your going to need to clean your goldfish pond and get it already for the pond season. Pond maintenance is needed and you will need to clean your goldfish pond of any debris and organic matter that has decomposed over winter. If you did not cover your goldfish pond last year with a pond netting you will need to scoop up all the leaves that are decaying. This decaying matter is prime areas for when goldfish diseases and parasites occur. Remove all the sludge at the bottom of your goldfish pond to prevent diseases and parasite outbreaks.

For small ponds you can completely clean your pond rinse it out and refill it. If you have goldfish in your pond simply remove them and place them in an indoor aquarium until you finish cleaning your pond. It would be best to keep them in a fish tank for about 3-4 days before you re-introduce them to your pond. This would be a great time for you to observe your fish and look for any signs or symptoms of diseases and parasites. If you notice any sick fish treat them as needed.

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For any pond plants that you have in your pond such as water lilies and other marginals, this is a great time to divide them. Simply divide and re-pot your pond plants and fertilize them as well. When you clean your pond for spring this is the ideal time for dividing your pond plants and water lilies and you can place them where you want in your garden pond.

For larger ponds which you may not be able to drain your pond and clean it completely make sure you remove as much as the sludge as possible. Do a partial water change and remove about 25% of the water.

Now that your pond is cleaned out your going to need to start up your pond for the season. Now you can hook up your pond pump and filter and get the water circulating. Be sure to add beneficial bacteria to get your biological filter working properly. Also add water conditioner to remove chlorine from the water to make it safe for your goldfish.

In spring is when people tend to have problems with algae blooms with their goldfish pond. After you have finished cleaning your pond and hooking up your pond pump and filter add a bag of barley to your pond. A bag of barley right by the pond pump will help reduce the the chance of algae. Barley works great for algae control in ponds. Simply add barley straw, barley extract or pellets in your pond at the beginning of spring and this will help your pond stay clear.

After you have cleaned your pond and started it up for spring most people want to start feeding their fish. Remember you can only start feeding your fish when it warms up to about 55 degrees Fahrenheit. Some fish foods on the market today you can feed your fish at 45 degrees but general rule is about 55 degrees you can start feeding your goldfish. When you do start feeding your goldfish in your pond start feeding them a wheat germ food that fish can easily digest. Feed them once a day and then as summer approaches you can switch fish foods later. Remember goldfish in a pond don’t really need to be fed, their is plenty of food in the pond for them.

Now that your goldfish pond is all cleaned out and ready for the season you can start to enjoy it. To fully enjoy your water garden make sure you have enough pond plants, water lilies and floating aquatic plants. Having your pond about 70% full of plants will help keep your water crystal clear all summer long. Make sure you have great pond filter as well as consider buying a UV sterilizer for your pond will help keep your water quality perfect all summer. Enjoy your goldfish pond and get your pond started up for spring for another pond season

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Goldfish Care Information Blog Hits 100,000 Visitors

By Jamie Boyle

Wow, what a last year and a half! My Goldfish Care Information Blog hit 100,000 visitors here today on March 31, 2009. This goldfish blog has come a long way as it first began September 15th, 2007. I would like to thank everyone for visiting my goldfish blog for all their questions they have concerning goldfish care and how to treat against various goldfish diseases and parasites.

 I consider this a goldfish milestone! My goldfish blog started off with mimimum traffic and now has become one of the sites to go to for questions concerning goldfish care and how to treat them. Now I get about 500 hits a day with up to 1000 page views. If this traffic keeps up I will double the traffic and get close to 200,000 visitors in one year. It’s crazy as I remember when I first started there was minimum traffic but now lots of people have visited this goldfish blog and there are many websites and blogs linking back to it.

Goldfish Care Information Blog Hits 100,000th Visitor

I would like to thank everyone for coming and visiting my goldfish blog over the last year and a half. I am just glad that I am able to help you with your questions and hope that you all have learned a thing or two about goldfish. This goldfish blog wouldn’t have grown like it did without all of you asking questions, so thanks and I look forward to helping many more people here in 2009. I am very happy with the results I’ve had with this blog and the feedback I get as I truly enjoy helping you with all your questions. As you can tell, this hobby is a real passion of mine and a hobby that I really enjoy. I’m just happy that this blog has been able to help so many people with their goldfish.

For everyone else who doesn’t know already I have also set up a goldfish forum where you can go and upload your goldfish pictures, koi pictures, pond photos and talk and communicate with others in the hobby. Feel free to check it out over at Pet Goldfish Forum.

Thanks again for visiting my goldfish care information blog and I’ll talk to you all soon!

Sincerely,

Jamie Boyle
The Goldfish Guy

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Goldfish Video Clips of Aquarium and Healthy Goldfish

This goldfish video clip was shared to me by a member of my Goldfish Forum of his beautiful aquarium and his healthy goldfish. Now this is what a fish tank should look like. You can tell how well it is maintained and kept up and the fish are amazing. He has beautiful fish including orandas, shubunkin, lionhead and a pleco. His aquarium is very well set up and maintained. Great job in taking care of his goldfish.

Take a look at these goldfish video clips courtesy of Klaas:


See how beautiful this aquarium is and how healthy the fish tank looks. If you want to see more goldfish videos, pictures and more information go to PetGoldfishForum.com and join today. You can chat with Klaas forum name “sejp” and other people involved in the goldfish hobby as well as myself.

Hope you enjoyed these goldfish video clips and see you all on the fish forum!

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Do Goldfish Need An Air Pump In Fish Bowl or Aquarium?

By Jamie Boyle

Do goldfish need an aquarium air pump? Yes and no really. If you want your goldfish to live a long healthy life then go with an air pump. Having an air pump in the aquarium or goldfish bowl helps in so many ways. It creates gas exchange and helps add oxygen to the water. Some people believe that goldfish will live just fine without an air pump and that may be so. For instance if you have an aquarium and have a filter running this helps add oxygen to the water. The water flowing in forces oxygen into the water increasing the oxygen level that fish need.

Goldfish need oxygen too. For instance on hot sunny days in goldfish ponds you may see your fish coming to the surface gasping for air. This happens especially when you have green algae blooms. GoldfishWhat you need to do is add oxygen quickly to the water. Spray a hose directly into the water will help increase the oxygen level. In warm hot sunny days the oxygen level is low as the temperature of the water is high. In cold water is where you see an abundance of oxygen available. There is more oxygen in cold water then there is warm water. So in reference to aquarium air pumps they are highly beneficial to a properly functional goldfish tank.

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Goldfish need plenty of oxygen and an aquarium air pump is highly recommended as it helps reduce stress too. As we all know with stress can come sickness and diseases so it is always best to take all necessary steps to keeping goldfish healthy. I mentioned about a goldfish pond in the summer just to explain a little more on this subject. As far as goldfish bowls and aquariums are concerned it is to your best option to go and equip your fish tank with an air pump. The agitation that happens at the surface of the water will add oxygen to your fish tank. This will create a healthier home for your fish and will reduce stress. If people are planning on having good luck taking care of goldfish then I would suggest not to go and try and keep them in a goldfish bowl. It’s just too small and in order to have great luck with fish keeping I would get all the proper equipment needed such as air pump, filter and aquarium gravel. With basically everything in life things need oxygen to live and goldfish are much the same. Also beneficial bacteria in your filter need oxygen to live and reproduce. Air pumps can help in so many ways in keeping an aquarium healthy. I hope this helps give you more of an idea on why people should really have an air pump in their fish tank. Your goldfish will like you for it and you will have better luck with your overall experience in fish keeping. Having an air pump in your goldfish aquarium is absolutely necessary towards optimum fish health.

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Fish Tank Light Starts Fire In Tracy Morgan’s New York Home

By Jamie Boyle

Earlier this week some of you may have heard that a fish tank light actually caused a small fire in comedian-actor Tracy Morgan’s New York City Apartment. The good news is that the fire was contained and no one was hurt, not even the fish in his aquarium. Firefighters were called and were able to get control of the fire quick before it was able to spread any further. Reports say that the fire was put out within 30 minutes.

It just goes to show people how important it is to make sure your aquarium equipment is working properly. This could have turned out worse but luckily it was taken care of quickly. The fire here that occurred in Tracy Morgan’s New York City Apartment on Feb. 18th, 2009 was due to a faulty fish tank light. Tracy Morgan fish tank light causes fire in his New York City ApartmentIt is unknown whether or not he leaves his aquarium fish tank light on continuously but this is not recommended. Fish tank lights should only be on for about 8 hrs a day.

A good tip for aquarium owners is to make sure to check your aquarium equipment often to make sure it’s working properly. This can avoid possible fires in case of faulty equipment. An example of checking the equipment is to make sure you check the filters after a power outage. Power outages can cause the filter to lose its prime and cause them to run dry overheating and potentially catch fire. Trust me when they run dry they get very hot if you don’t know. Fish Tank Including LightIt has happened to me several times when the power has gone out and they were extremely hot.

All I can say is Tracy Morgan was lucky that this never spread further. It would be interesting to know what aquarium fish tank light or brand he had on his fish tank. I can’t imagine him having an old fish tank light on it. Maybe there are some faulty defective fish tank lights on the market that should be looked at further. The good news is that know one was hurt and I guess the fish in the aquarium had a little luck on their side that day too.

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Prevent Ich Fish Disease – How To Prevent Ich ( White Spot Disease)

By Jamie Boyle

Many people often wonder ” How Do I Prevent Ich ” from reaching my aquarium and infecting my fish. There are ways in which you can prevent ich from reaching your tank. Here are some simple ich preventative measures you can do to keep ich away and how to prevent white spot disease from reaching your fish:

1. Never buy fish from an aquarium that contain sick fish at a pet store. Look for signs of ich, other external parasites or fish diseases before you make a fish purchase. You may be bringing home more then fish, some hitch hikers as well.

Sarassa Comets2. Before adding new fish to your aquarium or pond you need to quarantine new arrivals for minimum 2-4 weeks to make sure fish are okay and healthy. If not, you may be introducing ich, other external parasites or fish diseases to already healthy fish.

3. When buying aquarium plants or pond plants be sure to disinfect them before placing them in your tank or pond. To do so you can use Potassium Permanganate solution and dip the water plants in it. By doing so you can reduce the chance of introducing ich and other parasites to your aquarium.

4. Never add water to your aquarium or pond from the pet store where you may have bought fish or water plants. Fish should be netted out and water discarded. Water may contain parasites like ich (white spot disease) or other external parasites.

5. Never use the same netting and equipment from other tanks if you have more then one. By using the same net from one tank to another you risk introducing ich and other parasites from a tank that may have been sick. Have a seperate net for each tank.

6. Use an ultraviolet steriliser to help kill ich parasites. As the free swimming ich parasites known as tomites gets killed as they pass through. This may be away to help prevent ich or white spot disease in a way but there is no sure way that all tomites have been killed or destroyed. May help prevent ich but not a 100% sure way to do so.

7. Use CopperSafe From Mardel Labs fish medication to help prevent ich from occuring. One treatment last over a month. It not only helps prevent against ich but velvet and other external parasites as well.

These are just some simple ways you can help reduce the risk, and prevent ich disease from infecting your fish. Preventative measures are the best way to prevent against ich or white spot disease. In case your fish have developed ich or white spots seek ich medication and begin treatment right away.

Sincerely,

Jamie Boyle
The Goldfish Guy
“Helping Goldfish Owners With Advice, Fish Care and Fish Medication Treatments for Goldfish Diseases, Illnesses and Parasites”

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Kordon Malachite Green Fish Medication For Ich and External Parasites

By Jamie Boyle

Kordon Malachite Green Disease Treatment is an effective fish medication used to treat a wide variety of fish diseases for both freshwater and saltwater. Malachite Green is a medication that I’ve been using for fish treatment for years due to it’s effectiveness at healing and treating fish diseases and parasites including ich.

Kordon Malachite Green treats the following common protozoan parasites: Ichthyophthirius (freshwater ich) , Chilodonella, Costra, Epistylis, Ambiphyra, Oodinium, Cryptocaryon (marine ich) and Trichodina. Malachite Green not only treats against ich and other external parasites but is very effective against fungal infections. Kordon Malachite Green Fish Medication For Ich and External ParasitesThis fish medication works well to control against fungus on fish eggs after fish breeding. By using Malachite Green it helps increase the hatching rate of fish eggs as left untreated the fungus would take over the eggs and kill the baby fry.

Directions: Use 1 teaspoon per every 10 gallons of water. Remove carbon from filter. Perform water 25% water change daily and repeat dosage until fish are treated. Kordon Malachite Green is a very effective fish medication for treatment of ich and other external parasites including fungus found on fish. This is one product that I recommend when fish treatment is needed.

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CopperSafe From Mardel Labs- Fish Medication For Ich, Velvet and Other External Parasites

By Jamie Boyle

Mardel CopperSafe safely medicates fish suffering from ich (small white spots), velvet (yellow-white spots, loss of color), and other external parasites (visible spots, worms, rapid breathing, extra mucous). For salt and freshwater. Unique non-staining liquid. One treatment is effective for over a month. Very effective ich medication treatment. Ingredients: Chelated Copper Sulfate. Instructions: Use 5mL for 4 gallons of water. Treats water for 1 month.

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CopperSafe From Mardel Labs- Fish Medication For Ich, Velvet and Other External Parasites

Sincerely,

Jamie Boyle
The Goldfish Guy
“Helping Goldfish Owners With Advice, Fish Care and Fish Medication Treatments for Goldfish Diseases, Illnesses and Parasites”

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Kordon Prevent Ich Fish Disease Inhibitor and Preventative Fish Medication

By Jamie Boyle

A 100% organic solution to help prevent fish diseases caused by ich, fungus, protozoans, and dinoflagellates. Safe for all freshwater and saltwater aquariums, including reef and live rock aquariums. Also safe for ornamental ponds use. Non-toxic to all biological filters, fishes, amphibians, and turtles. Not intended for fishes intended for human consumption. Active Ingredients: Includes 5% multiple natural herbals containing Naphthoquinone.

Instructions: As a preventative, add one teaspoonful of Prevent Ich for every 10 gallons of water. If ich is present, add one teaspoonful of Prevent Ich for every 10 gallons of water and repeat dosage daily for one week, or longer if needed. Size: 16 fl. oz. container treats up to 960 gallons.

Kordon Prevent Ich Fish Disease Inhibitor and Preventative Fish Medication

Kordon Prevent Ich Fish Disease Inhibitor and Preventative

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Jamie Boyle
The Goldfish Guy
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Maracide From Mardel Labs – Fish Medication For Ich, Velvet and Other External Parasites

By Jamie Boyle

Liquid effective fish medication used against ick, trichodina, chilodinella and related parasites. With Biospheres&reg spot-on technology so it is automatically attracted to the fish. Maracide makes use of a revolutionary technology that delivers the treatment directly to the fish. Multi-layered microspheres attach to the fish and break down one layer at a time releasing the treatment in a controlled regulated manner. A filming agent, Chitosan, which has a molecular structure similar to the natural mucous coat of a fish, seals the treatment in contact with the tissue surface. Active Ingredients: Malachite Green, Chitosan Additional Information: Maracide should be used when a diagnosis of the fishes illness indicates the presence of Ick, chilodinella, Velvet / Protozoan Diseases and other related freshwater parasites. Maracide contains Malachite green and Biospheres&reg technology. During treatment U.V. sterilization should be discontinued. There is no need to disconnect wet/dry or diatomaceous filters during treatment. Maracide may cause an adverse reaction with some sensitive invertebrates. Invertebrates without an exoskeleton such as jellyfish, anemones etc. should be removed before treatment. Maracide should not be used in conjunction with any other parasitic treatments. Because of the unique action of the microspheres contained in Biospheres&reg products, care should be used when combining Maracide with medications from other sources. Maracide is safe to use with plants. Care should be taken when treating scaleless fish due to the sensitivity of these fish. For use in freshwater only. Instructions: Shake well before use. Use 2 capfuls per 10 gallons of water. Treat on days 1,3 and 5. Size: 16 fl oz

Maracide From Mardel Labs Fish Medication Used To Treat Ich and Other External Parasites

Maracide from Mardel Labs

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Jamie Boyle
The Goldfish Guy
“Helping Goldfish Owners With Advice, Fish Care and Fish Medication Treatments for Goldfish Diseases, Illnesses and Parasites”

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