The 5 Best Live Plants for Goldfish Tanks

Tweet By Matt Leighton, vivofish.com Goldfish are some of the most beautiful and intelligent aquatic creatures you will ever meet. They are also notoriously mischievous and persistent when it comes to digging up live plants. Nevertheless, in natural aquatic settings, plants play several key roles in the chain of life. This includes: ● Breaking down […]

The 8 Most Popular Man-made Animals

Man-made animals are real live animals!… not animal wannabes like chia pets, furbies, or virtual pets. Some of the most popular and favored animals that we encounter everyday are basically man-made. These animals are not a new phenomenon; many have been around for thousands of years. Today’s domestic pets are some earliest animals to be […]

Goldfish Identity Crisis! Which Fish is which?

Goldfish of all kinds! You may think you know what a goldfish is but hold on to your hat… knowing which fish is which is no simple task! Everybody knows what a goldfish is, right? After all, we’ve all read “The Cat in the Hat” by Dr. Seuss, and watched the wild ride of that […]

Featured Pet of the Week: The Common Goldfish

The Featured Pet of the Week is: The Common Goldfish! Goldfish are well known fish that are great pets because they are very attractive, have great personalities with their keepers, and are “easy” to keep. This is definitely true, and for this reason the common goldfish, Carassius auratus auratus, is actually a great fish for […]