fish store. The idea is that a pet fish would be an ideal tidy
little pet that would not require a lot of maintenance.
Fish are beautiful and come in a lot of colors. Children respond
to pets. Having a pet is said to teach responsibility to a child.
Fish are the perfect first pet because a child can actually care
for the fish. We decided to get some fresh water fish as opposed
to salt water. This was our first time owning a fish so we did not
want to buy fish that we could not care for.
Fish do not require heavy maintenance. It was easy to have the
pet store show my son what he should do each day to make
sure the fish was taken care of.
We purchased two goldfish. We were not trying to innovative or
buy some rare tropical fish. All we wanted was a couple of healthy
fish.
We chose a small Aquarium that fit the size and number of the two
gold fish we selected. It was interesting to watch the transformation
when my son developed from a little boy to the proud owner and
caretaker for the fish.
The supplies for our little pet fish costs over $100.00, We just
wanted to put the fish in a little bowl but were persuaded to
purchase an aquarium that included all of the following items to make the
fish more comfortable.
Aquarium hoods
- Aquarium Plants
- Aquarium Water Conditioners
- Aquarium Thermometers
- Aquarium Lights
- Aquarium Filters
- Aquarium Air Pumps
- Aquarium Heaters
- Aquarium Fish Nets
- Aquarium Gravel
In addition to all those items we had to buy fish food. I did not
know that goldfish are omnivores. That means they eat either other animals
or plants. To think that gold fish actually eat vegetables and meat made
me squeamish. I opted to purchase the little flakes. I kept this
information about the meat eaters to myself. I told my son
that he could be almost exclusively responsible for feeding
the new gold fish. Naturally this filled him with some great delight.
We took the fish, the aquarium and all the associated equipment
home. We started immediately putting the ac together.
The aquarium was really beautiful with the plants, castles
and brightly colored stones. We followed the instructions
that we were given .
The store's customer service representative encouraged us
to slowly introduce the fish to its new environment
It took over an hour to get the aquarium set up.
We dropped the fish into the tank still in the plastic bag
filled with water. The fish were a beautiful gold color.
We purchased a book on goldfish. I read the instructions and
information about this breed of fish. I discovered that the name
goldfish is a misnomer as all fish of that breed are not gold in
color. Some goldfish have different patches of black or silver.
We had just added new members to our family. We were responsible
for feeding these omnivores food on a daily basis. We had to keep
the water clean. There are a lot of health hazards that we needed to
be aware of and the fish food needed to be of high quality.
The temperature in the house had to be level.
