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Floating food like bloodworms should be placed in a feeding cone, and the feeding cone should of course always be placed at the same feeding spot.ĭidn't find the info you were looking for? Register for free and ask your question in our Aquarium forum ! Always place the feeding clip at the same spot. When you feed your Telescope Goldfish vegetables like cucumber and lettuce you can use a feeding clip.

Your Telescope Goldfish will eventually understand that food can be found on the bottom and will spend his time carefully searching that area in his own pace. One other method is to use sinking pellets, and always place them at the same spot in the aquarium or pond. One of the best methods is to get the fish used to your hand, since this allows you to control exactly how much food your Telescope Goldfish gets and prevent other fish from stealing it from him or her. Fortunately, there are several methods that you can try in order to help your Telescope Goldfish. Due to its visual handicap, it is very hard for a Telescope Goldfish to chase food or even noticing it. The hard part is to get your Telescope Goldfish to actually find the food. Getting you Telescope Goldfish to accept different kinds of food such as flakes, pellets, frozen food and vegetables, is not a problem. Filter intake tubes should ideally be covered in aquarium sponge or similar. Avoid placing plants or ornaments with sharp edges in the aquarium or pond, since the Telescope Goldfish can easily damage its eyes on such objects. It is therefore more advisable to keep your Telescope Goldfish with others of the same kind, or with other fish with equally poor eyesight such as Bubble Eye Goldfish and Celestial Goldfish. Fast fish, such a Comet Goldfish, Oranda Goldfish and Koi, will eat all the food before the Telescope Goldfish get a chance to find it. The bad eye sight also limits the number of suitable companions for a Telescope Goldfish. Others use pond netting to keep cats and birds away from the fish. Some aquarists keep Telescope Goldfish in ponds at patio areas, where birds are unlikely to venture. You can keep your Telescope Goldfish in a pond, be remember that they might be caught by birds of prey or other predators since their telescope eyes limit their eye sight. The Telescope Goldfish in not one of the largest goldfish variants, but it still requires plenty of space to do well. 10 gallons should be viewed as an absolute minimum, and the more room you can provide your Telescope Goldfish with, the better. Just like other types of goldfish, the Telescope Goldfish produces quite a lot of waste products and should not be kept in less than 10 gallons of water. There is also a beautiful, but rare, Telescope Goldfish variation that is chocolate coloured with orange pompons. The black and white combination is often referred to as Panda Telescope Goldfish. Today you can find red, white, red/white, black/white, calico coloured, tri-coloured, chocolate and bluescale Telescope Goldfish. The Telescope Goldfish comes in many different colours and sizes, but all Telescope Goldfish have the protruding eyes and the long and flowing fins in common. The fish should have long and flowing fins, and the caudal fin comes in several variations: normal Oranda tail, broadtail, veiltail and butterfly. The body depth of a Telescope Goldfish should ideally be larger than 2/3 of the body length. Regardless of the shape of the eyes, they should always be equal in size and protrude outwards.Ī Telescope Goldfish has an egg-shaped body with a double caudal fin. Just like the name suggest, flat eyes are somewhat flattened at the top. The dome shaped eyes are wider at the base of the eye and becomes narrower at the top. Some Telescope Goldfish have round eyes that look like they are about to float away from the fish, while others have more than half of the eye attached to the head. The round eyes can be found in various degrees of attachment to the head of the fish. The dome shaped eye, the flat eye and the simple, round eye. There are three acceptable eye-shapes for the Telescope Goldfish. The Telescope Goldfish is known by several other names as well, such as Globe Eye Goldfish, Dragon Eye Goldfish and the Japanese word Demekin. The Telescope Goldfish derives its name form its large and protruding eyes.
