If your New Year’s resolutions embrace caring for a pet in 2022, you may discover it laborious to go previous the standard goldfish. And you wouldn’t be alone.
According to the newest report from Animal Medicines Australia, fish possession is on the rise with 11 per cent of Australian households having a mixed complete of 11.3 million fish,
With 39 per cent of householders sighting the highest purpose for getting fish is for rest, PETstock’s aquatic specialist Kyri Pantelidis says Aussies have a renewed curiosity in low-maintenance pets resembling Siamese combating fish and goldfish.
“Fish make implausible pets as they’re comparatively simple pets to maintain and are more and more common decisions for would-be pet house owners in search of companionship.
“They are available so many shapes, sizes and colors. Some have stunning colors like African Cichlids and Discus, and others have nice personalities like Oscars.
“Fish make a striking feature for any home and are a great first pet, particularly for kids learning about pet care,” he says.
The firm has seen a 30 per cent improve in fish gross sales, with aquatic tanks, fish meals and equipment additionally on the rise.
Other low-maintenance pets which are rising in reputation embrace reptiles and chickens.
Fun fish information:
• Those who maintain pet fish are extra possible than others to be residing in NSW (13% of households vs. 11% nationally), residing in a
suburban space (13%), or Gen X – i.e. aged 40-54 years (15%)
• The majority of pet fish are stored in tanks indoors (69%)
• For the primary time, fish house owners had been requested in regards to the sorts of fish they stored, with fishbowl /chilly water tank breeds essentially the most
common (46%) – adopted by tropical freshwater breeds (34%), pond fish (26%), and marine species (6%)
• On common, pet house owners have been protecting fish for over 5 years, with longer-term house owners balanced out by the 16% of households who’ve solely had fish for lower than a 12 months
• Across Australia, 22% of households have stored pet fish in some unspecified time in the future, together with 27% of those that don’t at present have any
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