What is the longest living pet fish that you can buy and is cheap?
Posted on November 3rd, 2009 by admin
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A fish you can buy in a pet store and isn’t too big.
Also it is cheap and some what interesting.
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A fish you can buy in a pet store and isn’t too big.
Also it is cheap and some what interesting.
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Goldfish- they can live past 10yrs i have a pair that are 5yrs. they will get bigger but they will stop growing if you dont put them in a bigger tank i started with 6 in a 30gal tank and only 2 are still living. hope this helps in your choices.
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I suggest a goldfish because they do live very long. They are common, but they quite interesting. If you looking for a very beautiful, smaller fish try a betta. They are many different colors and are tropical fish. They are fighting fish, but if you get females you may be alright. If you get a male betta you should get guppies as another fish. Goldfish are common but bettas leave with just getting guppies. Those are my choices.
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I’ve had fun fair/carnival feeder fish live over 13 years. I’ve had tetras live 7, White Clouds 5-6. Fish will live a long time if you keep up on water changes, understock the aquarium and feed good quality foods of a large variety.
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Goldfish are cheap (under 10 cents for a feeder goldfish) and long-lived (the record is over 30 years), but they don’t meet the “isn’t too big” requirement. No, it’s not true that they will stop growing if you keep them in a cramped tank, except of course because dead fish don’t grow. That’s like trying to keep a Great Dane small by keeping it in a shoebox! The reason most of Cassy’s goldfish have died (4 out of 6, I believe it is?) is probably because they’re in too small of a tank. A healthy goldfish can grow to a foot long, and need a huge tank.
Bettas are a good choice — inexpensive, hardy, interesting, and moderately long-lived. Another option would be keeping a colony of fish, such as guppies, that replace themselves over time. You won’t have the same individual fish, of course, but the colony can continue for decades.
If one of your biggest concerns is price, though, you should really re-think whether you’re ready for fish at all. The actual fish are a small part of the cost of setting up an aquarium. Just one of my aquariums, if I’d bought it new (I actually got lucky on a used one) would have cost over $200 to keep $50 worth of fish, not to mention what I spend on fish food, water testing kits, and other odds and ends. Trying to set up an aquarium on the cheap isn’t fair to the fish or worthwhile for you. Get a subscription to a good fish magazine and enjoy that until you have the resources to do it right.
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