To the Top of this Page. I started out planning for goldfish. Thank you for your great site with all that advice and any future advice you may be able to give me. Sincerely, Leslie 1. Match the Fish with the Appropriate Home.
Fish are hardy and have the capacity to adjust to many changes in their environment.
Fish show Signs of Stress and Disease when their environment lacks something essential such as oxygen, or their environment has an excess of something intolerable such as fish waste. With good planning and systematic maintenance the fish's environment can be controlled and most fish problems can be avoided. Click here for information about stress and disease in fish. The most important factor in successfully keeping any fish is to match that fish with an appropriate environment which has enough space, the proper equipment, and compatible tank mates. Choose a group of compatible fish first then get an appropriate home for that group of fish, or choose the home first then get an appropriate group of fish for that home.