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AQUA





























                                       ‘MAKE YOUR



                           GOLDFISH LIVE FOR




                                          15 YEARS’
                                           THE EXPERT GUIDE




                                                  By Shahu Sardar*
















         Goldfi sh! World's  fi rst  ornamental   class people's homes.  Soon it became   this article!

         fish and today one of the  most    a status symbol and a very engaging
         popular aquarium fi sh all around the   hobby; later spread to rest of Asia and   Actually, goldfish are bred in huge

         world. 1500 years ago the fi sh keeping   Europe too.                numbers throughout the world that
         hobby was born and with that came                                   makes them super common, cheap,

         the  first selectively bred aquarium   The longest living goldfish till now is   and available at anytime. So no one

         fish – Goldfi sh.                   Tish, from the UK. And he lived for 43   actually bothers about ‘basic needs

                                           years! But maybe your goldfi sh didn't   of a goldfi sh’, and what we do is, just
         It was  first bred, in ancient China   even live for a week. But why is it so?   put in another fish if one dies. No one



         from existing carps, as a fi sh to keep   Why do goldfish die so easily? This   would do it with an Arowana, but the

         in ponds and water gardens at upper-  is what we are going to talk about in   commonness of goldfish makes it so.
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