For now, “us” means mostly me, but I hope that more of you will join the idea of creating an online European community for fancy goldfish keepers, who will promote correct and respectful lives for these fantastic fish!
A place for Fancy Goldfish owners in Europe!
Who is this for?
To start with, I wanted to create a place where people can share their passion. From there, we can go anywhere!
I hope that you will use this website to share your own passion for fancy goldfish. Whether it is by writing serious blog posts about goldfish, product reviews, creative ideas, or laid back updates about your day to day experiences with your fish. It really does not matter much. You could even just run a journal of your tanks, or maybe describe your routines. We love to read and watch anything about goldfish!
Whatever you choose to share, just keep in mind that it is for a European audience.
Serious or funny blog posts about fancy goldfish
Your videos about goldfish
Photo-updates, or galleries of your fish and fish keeping
Distributor updates about new stock or new imports
Is it free?
Yes! I don’t want to make money from this. I don’t even want to become famous or influential. I just wanted a place for us to share our passion.
Basically because they don’t work. Many of the modern social media have great communities that often get eaten up by toxicity or aggressive moderation. Creating one more, won’t make it better. On top of that, I feel that information gets lost or is really difficult to find, once it is a few days old. Lastly, the tracking by the owners of social media was to me a turn off. In the long run, maybe we can setup an online community like the old forums, but just more modern, or maybe even an official club with proper membership and organized activities across Europe!
Why is this only for Europeans?
First of all, this is not a hard rule. Anybody is welcome to join, as long as they respect that the main audience and target group are European goldfish keepers. I wanted to create a group for European goldfish keepers, because we face a series of very particular challenges, such as EU limitations when it comes to importing, medication rules, limited distribution network and specific market regulations. I also feel that fancy goldfish are really not as popular in Europe as it could be. I believe that we need to help each other, to strengthen the hobby of keeping fancy goldfish in Europe.
What are the commercial interests?
Personally I am not making this to make money. I am also really trying to not include any technology that will track users on the website. Your data is not for sale! That said, I wish that commercial partners will join in, and back the idea up, both financially and practically. I would love of retailers, breeders, manufacturers to share their updates and products here, as long as they are relevant to the European users.
Can I crosspost??
Yes! actually, if you already have your own WordPress website, we can set your website up so that you can multipost the posts you want to share with EuroGoldfish. If you don’t have your own blog, you are welcome to use EuroGoldfish for it. We can create a landing page for your profile with all your posts. You are also welcome to create posts to simply share your videos, images, and product reviews that you have shared in other groups or pages.
