Articles for tag: Goldfish, Healthy Fish, Spawning

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Goldfish Reproductive Behavior

It’s three in the morning. You can’t sleep because the goldfish are chasing each other, kicking up gravel and tearing up decorations. You consider hiring an exorcist. Your goldfish are possessed, not by evil spirits but by the urge to spawn. Goldfish that live in ponds tend to only spawn in spring or summer, but ...

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The Basics of Fishing for Small Mouth Bass

Like so many people who love to fish, I started out as a kid, encouraged by my father. We spent many hours trying to catch Small Mouth bass. Over time, we learned plenty about this fish. Much of this information about how to find and catch this often elusive fish could come in handy on ...

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How to Breed Oscar Fish

Oscars (also known as velvet cichlids or Astronotus ocellatus) breed extremely well in captivity. In fact, they breed so well that often 90% of eggs lain turn into thriving and growing baby Oscars. Considering that a female Oscar can lay anywhere up to 3000 eggs, this means you will have a lot of baby Oscars ...

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Striped Bass Fishing Seasons

On the striper coast or East Coast of the United States the striped bass species (morone saxatilis) ranges from the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Nova Scotia south to the Florida / Georgia border. On the Southern U.S. Gulf coast, the distribution is from the Suwannee River, Florida, to eastern Texas. Only two East Coast ...

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Breeding the Dwarf Gourami

Sexing The male Dwarf Gouramis of all the colour variations are brightly coloured, while the females of most colour variations are relatively drab in appearance. However, the Coral Blue Dwarf Gourami is an exception to this in that the Female is also a beautiful Coral Blue colour and is scarcely inferior in colour to the ...

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How to Breed Pleco Fish

Plecos are a great fish for any aquarium, not just because they have a unique, armored look, but also because they keep the tank sparkling clean. They’re algae eaters, though the limited size of an aquarium means that they need supplemental food as well. The general name pleco is popularly used to cover many species ...

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Gold Barb Fact Sheet

Gold Barb Fact Sheet The “Gold Barb”, “Puntius semifasciolatus” is an excellent little aquarium fish. It usually grows to about two inches long (5cm) although I have seen ones nearer 4 inches (10cm). The Gold Barb is from Asia although the actual Gold form does not exist in the wild. Their usual life span is ...