{"id":87043,"date":"2022-04-22T12:05:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T12:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/are-goldfish-better-alone-or-in-pairs\/"},"modified":"2022-04-22T12:05:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T12:05:45","slug":"are-goldfish-better-alone-or-in-pairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/are-goldfish-better-alone-or-in-pairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Are goldfish better alone or in pairs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_17 counter-hierarchy counter-decimal ez-toc-grey\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" style=\"display: none;\"><i class=\"ez-toc-glyphicon ez-toc-icon-toggle\"><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class=\"ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1\"><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/are-goldfish-better-alone-or-in-pairs\/#Are_goldfish_better_alone_or_in_pairs\" title=\"Are goldfish better alone or in pairs?\">Are goldfish better alone or in pairs?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/are-goldfish-better-alone-or-in-pairs\/#Is_it_OK_to_have_just_one_goldfish\" title=\"Is it OK to have just one goldfish?\">Is it OK to have just one goldfish?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/are-goldfish-better-alone-or-in-pairs\/#Do_goldfish_care_if_they_are_alone\" title=\"Do goldfish care if they are alone?\">Do goldfish care if they are alone?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/are-goldfish-better-alone-or-in-pairs\/#Do_goldfish_need_tank_mates\" title=\"Do goldfish need tank mates?\">Do goldfish need tank mates?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/are-goldfish-better-alone-or-in-pairs\/#Is_it_better_to_have_1_or_2_goldfish\" title=\"Is it better to have 1 or 2 goldfish?\">Is it better to have 1 or 2 goldfish?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Are_goldfish_better_alone_or_in_pairs\"><\/span>Are goldfish better alone or in pairs?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Keeping at least two goldfish in an aquarium is recommended to provide companionship and promote activity. Solitary fish can exhibit depression and lethargy. Goldfish are generally not aggressive so they can be kept with most community fish provided the other fish are larger than the size of the goldfish&#8217;s mouth.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Is_it_OK_to_have_just_one_goldfish\"><\/span>Is it OK to have just one goldfish?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>To answer the question: <b>Yes, goldfish can live alone. In fact, many goldfish can live long, healthy, happy lives all on their own. Just remember, though, not all goldfish will be happy on their own, and some would prefer the company of other tank mates.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Do_goldfish_care_if_they_are_alone\"><\/span>Do goldfish care if they are alone?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>What is this? Goldfish are just not the same as humans  they&#8217;re not social animals in the same way that we are, and they don&#8217;t have the same capacity to get bored or long for companionship. In fact, <b>many of the longest living goldfish have been kept alone, with no obvious harm to their well being.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Do_goldfish_need_tank_mates\"><\/span>Do goldfish need tank mates?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Keep tank mates that can live in the same conditions as goldfish. Goldfish mainly prefer cooler temperatures from 50-70xb0F and can live at room temperature without a heater.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Is_it_better_to_have_1_or_2_goldfish\"><\/span>Is it better to have 1 or 2 goldfish?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Keeping at least two goldfish in an aquarium is recommended to provide companionship and promote activity. Solitary fish can exhibit depression and lethargy. Goldfish are generally not aggressive so they can be kept with most community fish provided the other fish are larger than the size of the goldfish&#8217;s mouth.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Table of Contents Are goldfish better alone or in pairs?Is it OK to have just one goldfish?Do goldfish care if they are alone?Do goldfish need tank mates?Is it better to have 1 or 2 goldfish? Are goldfish better alone or in pairs? Keeping at least two goldfish in an aquarium is recommended to provide companionship&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}