(09-01-2012, 09:26 AM)Ram Wrote: The best way to cease the pain of losing a pet fish is to get another pet fish. Soon your kid will get attached to the new fish if you get one same specie with similar appearance to the old one.
How big was the tank by the way?
While 5 years might be ok for some fish, goldfish are known to have natural life span of decades. Find out the cause of the fish's death might help to get the next fish last longer.
We had a 20 gallon tank and the reason we had one goldfish in there is that I compulsively Google everything and I read that one goldfish needs a big tank because they get stunted if the tank is too small. In 5 years, our guy grew pretty big. Now I'm going to be wondering what I did wrong. We are having a brutally hot summer in Florida so I wonder if the temperature in his tank was too high. I never did anything special to control the water temperature, I always just left it up to the weather.
