{"id":3296,"date":"2015-09-25T09:08:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T14:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=3296"},"modified":"2015-08-15T20:47:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T01:47:53","slug":"its-friday-again-so-have-some-more-fish-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=3296","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Friday Again, So Have Some More Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?attachment_id=3313\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3313\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3313\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?attachment_id=3313\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/veiltailed-goldfish.jpg?fit=259%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"259,194\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"veiltailed goldfish\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/veiltailed-goldfish.jpg?fit=259%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/veiltailed-goldfish.jpg?fit=259%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3313\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/veiltailed-goldfish.jpg?resize=259%2C194&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"veiltailed goldfish\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These beautiful veil-tailed gold fish are very popular, being easy for amateurs to care for in a properly set up tank. \u00a0Care includes cleaning the sides of the tank of algae each week or so. \u00a0They&#8217;re pretty hardy, going by the experience we had when our 3-4 y.o. son \u00a0decided at around 6am one morning that he&#8217;d clean out their tank as he&#8217;d watched\/helped his father do. \u00a0 Our reasonably sized tank held 6 comfortably, and was positioned up on the kitchen counter. \u00a0By the time we emerged to organise breakfast, there was our son , standing on a stool, moving the fish about in the tank with his hand to catch them &#8211; most had been dropped at least once before landing in a holding basin, but two were still in the tank. \u00a0All 6 \u00a0had at least one damaged fin or tail part, and could be said to be &#8216;limping a bit&#8217;. \u00a0We intervened, and removed the sodium bicarb cloudy water (he&#8217;d &#8216;fed&#8217; them!) and added fresh water to the tank, after which they looked a little less stressed. \u00a0Within a few short weeks all fish were still alive and tails and fins had fully recovered. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u00a0<\/span><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">I can totally recommend these hardy beautiful fish as family pets.<\/span> \u00a0<\/em>We had them for years and handed them on to another family when we left for northern Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These beautiful veil-tailed gold fish are very popular, being easy for amateurs to care for in a properly set up tank. \u00a0Care includes cleaning the sides of the tank of algae each week or so. \u00a0They&#8217;re pretty hardy, going by the experience we had when our 3-4 y.o. son \u00a0decided at around 6am one morning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[281,280],"class_list":["post-3296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-perfect-pets","tag-veil-tailed-goldfish"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-Ra","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3296"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3333,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions\/3333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}