I have been feeding Cobalt large cichlid sinking pellets for about a year now. My two have been very happy since the change. I have had people jump my butt because they say this food is horrible for goldfish. When I ask why, they cannot give me an answer backed up with scientific data. I cannot find any research data that would indicate that this food would be detrimental to my fin babies. What are your thoughts? Thank you.
I have silver sharks red tailed sharks rainbow sharks and golden Rainbow sharks and a goldfish and a angelfish And the goldfishes old tank mate but my going to Sarah’s stay have babies so they are in the different tank
Hello. Don’t laugh … I’m a grown woman who has had a lifelong fear of fish. Sounds hilarious, I know. A flopping or dead fish creates pure terror. Watching and educating myself about goldfish is a self-imposed therapy for me and I appreciate your channel. Thank you!
While I do not have a gold fish, I want to thank you for this video and sharing your experience and expertise! I would encourage those with fish to listen to Cory... his advice has saved me tons of money hahaha
I grew up with fish tanks in the 1980s because of my Dad and am getting back into it now.....just wanted to say aquarium coop is AMAZING!! Brings back memories and learning so much more😀😀
Honestly, goldfish are already so beautiful on there own, why do people push poor goldfish to to high temps, or other fish to to low, when you could just have a hill stream loach or two, and your goldfish, boom! Great looking tank!
kurt zingler Thats very true, it’s just important to recognize that you can have more than just a hill stream loach. Dojo loaches and plenty of other fish do better at a cooler temperature as well. You don’t have to push things to the limit and make things stressed in order to have additional fish in your tank
@@KuchiKopi179 but you can put double tail goldfish with single tail goldfish, I got a goldfish with big eyes and its double tail and another fish but idk what it is but its double tail
I have 3 comet goldfish (feeder rescues) with 9 golden white clouds, lots of plants. No problems, and they look great together. The colors blend nicely, contrast beautifully with the green plants. Fairly low maintenance, minimal water changes needed, probably because of all the plants, which my Goldie’s don’t bother with much, including lots of hanging roots from water lettuce. Very relaxing aquarium to sit and watch.
I kept gold mystery snails & golden algae eaters in a small (100 gal) , planted and filtered pond with 3 to 4 fancy goldfish. I hope that they were nearly as happy as they made me. 🙂
Thanx Cory. Never knew you could keep so many different fish with goldfish. I was under the impression that pretty much they had to be kept alone because they were a colder water fish. Glad you cleared that up. 👍😎✌🍄
I was about to but some otocinclus for my goldfish tank and I'm really glad I watched this video before I did. Thanks for saving me and my fish a lot of potential trouble, I love this channel so much!
I have three goldfish (two comets and an oranda). Their only current tank mate is a pleco. I love the idea of adding in a dojo loach! I’ll have to look into them some more.
I feel like a rare case then!! My goldfish were feeder fish until we saved them and put them in an outdoor pond. Once the pond was at risk to freezing we put the fish with our cichlids cause we thought we would just try. And they love it!!! Haven’t had any issues and it’s been over a year! Some other tank mates are 2 clown loaches, 3 HUGE plecos, and a red tail blue loach!
Love this! Been thinking about getting a hillstream loach or bristlenose for my goldfish tank for a while. I keep variatus platties (sunburst wag tails) with my 4 shubunkins in a planted 75 gallon at the moment and they've slowly expanded their population but most fry get eaten (as intended). It sounds like a hillstream loach or 2 is probably the way to go for me, although the blue eye lemon longfin bristlenose is really eye catching... almost like a gold colored koi or something.
From personal experience White Cloud minnows work so wonderful with goldfish. Mine are definitely too big to be eaten and its so cute watching them try to follow my fancy 😂💕
I have a question… that tank behind you is like my dream but I’ve had a 20 gallon and only had 2 at all times and cleaning was insane. I was cleaning it every week, if I remember correctly, or once a month but the waste would mess a lot with water levels. What is the best fish/fishes that actually help with maybe eating that waste. Or maybe I’m asking the question wrong.. How do you keep your water levels perfect all the time with all the waste from the fancies? Bristle nose plenco?? Also is having no gravel on the bottom easier for clean up? I think this channel is great thank you for the videos.. huge help!
There is nothing you can add to your tank to remove wastes unfortunately as all living beings produce their own waste too. That just means you either need to do multiple water changes a week or get a bigger tank so it takes longer for those wastes to build up. 🙂
I love watching your videos. I have developed MTS from you and I'm loving it, also have tried my first plants ever thanks to your easy products and tutorials keep up the amazing work.
I just found your channel , subbed and notified right away. My first ever fish went in my 40 gallon aquarium yesterday. Thems goldfish , 5 put in there. Hoping you continue to post very informative videos .Thank you very very much. From an older guy up in Canada.
In my 65, I currently have a single ranchu, two medium dojo’s, and a small school of white clouds. This tank was originally just a grow out tank for three baby ranchu before they get moved out to my pond, but tragedy struck this summer and I lost all of my goldfish except the one ranchu when my city did something weird with the water supply. The poor lone ranchu was depressed until I moved in some buddies from my other tanks and now he is so happy derping around the tank with the other fish. Multiple water tests make me think there is heavy metal or something else that doesn’t come up on my tests. I just can’t do water changes during the summer now. 2020 happened, so my pond is drained until spring and this little ranchu is stuck in the house until then too.
I added feeder fish, most were eaten but not all of them. Some have now grown to pretty much to full size and make a lovely addition to my small ponds (including some long-tailed ones). I added four rosy barbs to the pond that has the larger fish, and they all seem to get along just fine 🙂. I’ve got an array of goldfish, too, including plain old comets, blackmoors, telescopics, orandas, subunkins, pearl scales, bubble eyes, celestial eyes, one angel tail and one ryukin. I inherited most of the goldfish when we moved here, a couple of years ago, but I’ve found a nice balance of varieties of gold- and other fish, snails, vegetation, algae and pond visitors (like the tree-frogs who come down to lie on the water for a drink, or mosquitoes who venture too close to the surface of the water, for too long). I’m going to get some more fish, now that I’ve seen this; I’ve watched lots of so-called experts who warned against so many things that appeared would work, and suggested so many things that really couldn’t work (I had to double check their facts as I don’t really know much about fish other than keeping hardy, cold-water fish alive in a small, outdoor setting, the benefit of which is that I don’t need to keep the glass immaculately clean because the algae helps create a more natural environment for all manner of life in there). Thank you for reiterating the principles of finding tank-mates for goldfish and explaining the facts and logic behind it all 🙂 xxxoooxxx ❤️
This goldfish tank has made you a personal hero of mine. The variatus platy being cold hardy was something i did not know. On a related note Ive got a gold dojo loach i put in my 120 about a week ago, (plan on adding another pair soon) last few days he has taken to swimming into the current from the HOB and then abruptly doing what I can only describe as playing possum. He will float stiff as a board for a few moments, then take off. I do not believe it is a swim bladder issue, he can stay on the bottom whenever he wants, but coming home to see your loach "stuck" to the filter does nothing good for my blood pressure. Otherwise he is very active, burrowing in the gravel occasionally, absolutely destroys his food. Only tank mates are goldies and a bristlenose I haven't seen since I put in a month ago. Anybody else had this behavior? Looked about online and answers were all over the place.
Thank you so much! I was hoping you would do a goldfish tankmates video.i have giant danios in my goldfish tank so also a great tankmate they are even breeding in my tank.
To feel my bristlenoses (babies at the moment 5mths old), i have a skull ornament they hide in, so every second day i put a vegie wafer into the eye hole of the skull where the goldfish can't get into. When they get to big to hide in the skull i will have to come up with a new plan. I also put some sinking food into the bushy plant hoping they get some of that to.
Great video! :) Another species that seems to work really well in a goldfish tank (at least with single-tailed goldfish and wakins) is the siamese algae eater. They're very friendly tank mates with a "food response" that is similar to that of goldfish, so they don't get outcompeted at feeding time. Goldfish are also effective dither fish for the SAE's, making them feel more at ease. Other species my goldfish are currently kept with are panda garras, hoplo cats and some corydoras (large enough to be a safe combo). Very peaceful tank. 👌
@@Aqua_Gino well I heard that Chinese algae eaters are not safe to have with goldfish because they tend suck the slime coat even if you feed them separately. I believe petco sells them with goldfish. I don't know if there is a difference or not
@@brickosaurus2276 Oh I see. Yeah I would never trust a Chinese algae eater with peaceful/vulnerable fish like goldfish. The scientific name of the species you don't want is Gyrinocheilus aymonieri. If you compare it closely to a Crossocheilus species (the ones you want) you'll learn to spot the difference. 🙂
By the way, sometimes the Chinese algae eater is labeled as "Siamese". And there are species which look like the actual Siamese algae eaters but which are not. There are some articles on the internet which explain the difference nicely.
Thank you for this video! I have a 75 gallon tank I'm setting up with an Oranda and a Ryukin fancy. my plan is to have pearlweed and S. Repens carpet the bottom as a buffer between the open water and the bottom as well as a cavernous rocky area to the side with space for the smaller fish to enter/exit but not the goldfish, I want to get a couple dojo loaches to live down there and some white clouds or variatus platys
I currently have pictus cats, yo-yo loaches, otocinclus and a mystery snail, with my two fancy goldfish. I got the otocinclus before I saw this video. Started with four and currently at two otos. Never found the two missing otos, so possibly eaten. Thanks for this helpful video!
I appreciate this video very very much! I'm adopting a Shubunkin that I've set up a 75 gallon for and I've been trying to figure out good tank mates for her that aren't just the pair of golden loaches she's already buddies with. The longfin rosy barbs sound to me like a great long term plan if the bio-load ends up being light enough to handle her, her buddies, and the snails I'm planning on adding in. I also considered the hillstream loaches, and it's really nice to finally hear someone say they can work with goldfish.
Hi I’ve got. 1 common GF, 2 comet GF, 3 fantails GF, 2 wood shrimp, 4 sunset plates, 5 S&P corries 5 albino corries 1 zebra snail, Temperature is at 23c with 2 heaters in a aqua one AR850 165lt tank. No problems with clouding and my nitrates at 0, @ph7. 2 goldfish at at 3” noise to tail. Working for me so far.
@@feitanportor9780 thanks! I was looking at mollies I think they’re really nice. I ended up just getting a few Cory catfish and they all get along in harmony lol
I have 4 otocinclus and a bristlenose pleco with my goldfish. My goldfish is so bulky that he can't swim that fast, and my otocinclus are SO fast. They cross the tank in the blink of an eye. I can't see him ever catching them. I also have a ton of plants for them to hide in, too, though. My pleco has never sucked on my goldfish, but he's really well fed. My goldfish used to nip my plants and rip them up until I started mixing veggies into his diet just FYI for people having the same problem. If you keep them well fed and satisfy their craving for veggies they won't terrorize your plants as bad.
I have found that clownplecos do really well with goldfish. The fancy ones anyways. You have to balance the temp a bit more, but in between 70-80 seems to make them all fairly happy 🧡
I keep 3 hillstream loaches with 3 goldfish in a 30 gallon tank. I have them for 1 month now and I am wondering how can I feed them and what? Goldfish will not allow a algae wafer to exist over 2 minutes, they eat eveything!! Any advice?
I keep a goldfish with mollies, they are decent size so they don’t get eaten, peaceful and while they are tropical fish, they can go a little bit colder than most trivial fish.
WARNING!!! The very first fish tank I had (40L) with a small black Moor + a butterfly telescope + a bristlenose pleco I noticed the pleco wasn't getting enough food so I brought algae sinking pellets. A couple days after I started feeding the pellets I realised that my black Moor was eating them and overfeeding way too much. Soon after my black Moor got dropsy from overeating and died. Easy mistake for beginners just thought I'd put this out there. I rehomed the pleco.
Adult white clouds are working with the fancy gold fish, if you have a lot of water change and good water flow, it works. 🙂 But they will eat them, if they are to small.
Rhodeus spp (cool water). - Its a cool looking, Barb like schooling fish. It gets a bit chunky so it would be hard for a Goldfish to swallow and it also has a very interesting breeding strategy, reminiscent of the shell dwellers.
Same rules apply. If the fish can't fit it in it's mouth then yes. The problem is they don't clean poo and that's the main problem with goldfish. Cleaning the substrate and water changes are your only real options for a clean tank. That being said I won a comet goldfish at a fair six years ago and with little effort the fish thrives. I have had snails but never tried other fish because of the added poo.
we have a park witha big pond in town here. there has to be about 200 huge gold fish just schooling around. take the children to feed the ducks and the fish. the city even got a big fountian to keep the pond ice free (mostly ice free) in the winter months
Hello I would recommend looking into a video he made about snails and goldfish they can choke up on the baby's so a nerite would be better they only breed in salted water
I kept some mystery snails with my bubble eye goldfish and the poor snails spent most the time cooped up in their shell because the goldfish would try and eat their antennae and face. I felt bad for them, and they ate my water lettuce so I did not feel they were a good mix.
Tankmate suggestion for the 800 goldfish tank... Danio danglia, Moustache Danio. BIG active peaceful schoolers (larger than giant danio). I think a big group of about 40 or 50 would look amazing in there. They're also very fast; no way a goldfish can catch them.
I'm not sure I could say it's a huge no like the other commentor. However it wouldn't be the easiest combo. You'd want to run the temps at about 74-75. Your pea puffers may torment the dojo loach by nipping. However they might never do that either. If you did try it, you'd need to be ready to take action. My advice would be find different fish to keep in the 40, and do a pea puffer tank dedicated down the road.
@Aquarium Co-Op I've got 37 gallon tank and I've got 5 small orandas but they makes water cloudy very fast just in about 5 day. I feed them 3 times a day which they can finish in about 4 min. I've got a box filter but I don't think it’s enough. Can you please suggest me a good one for me? Thanks love from Uk.
Hey everyone! I have currently got a smaller tank with a couple of variatus platys and a few danios, as well as a couple of amano shrimp I rescued from a friends tank. In the near future I plan on upgrading to a 55 gallon (200L) tank of my dreams. I really want to begin that tank with 2 fancy goldfish (a black moor and a fantail) and was thinking about repeating my current set up of variatus platys and danios. Really glad to see the variatus platys are in this video, but I was just wondering on people’s thoughts on danios? Like the white clouds obviously they are a schooling fish and are pretty fast - so they would likely dodge being eaten in my opinion! But any reasons why I should/shouldn’t would be ace, thanks!
I've had super great success with koi swordtails, with both fancy and very large comets. The swordtails grew from 6 to probably close to 100 over the summer, and voraciously attack food with the goldfish, which is fun to watch. The platy's population only went from 6 to about 9 over the summer. In the month I've brought the platy's inside to their own tank, they're populations at about 40 now, and some fry are free swimming with the adults. Not sure how the swordtail fry were so successful with the goldfish...
I had a 150 gallon tank with 2 angelfish, a single fantail goldfish to eat the snail population boom (he loved them), 6 Blue spotted sunfish (North American native), cory catfish, and a ton of platy/swordtail hybrids. Yeah, the platy babies would get eaten, but they always bred faster than they got predated.
Any suggestion for a 55 gallon that has 2 fancy Goldfish and 2 Dojo loaches - algae eater? I added mystery snails, but they will not live in there (I find empty shells), LFS thinks loaches ate them, live...ICK!
Love this! Currently deciding between two setups for my 36 gallon bowfront. 1. 2 or 3 young angelfish, a snowball pleco and a few khuli loaches. 2. 2 Smaller Oranda goldfish and some hillstream loaches. Anyone wanna vote? 1 or 2?
Sorry to bother you , I have bought a second hand tank, it has come with everything I need. I would like to know if I can use the filter the way it came. Or should I throw all the filter material away, sterilising the new unit then put new filter material in. Thanks in advance.
I have Flying fox, zebra danios, white cloud minnows with my group of 4 shubunkin/2 koi and 2 small comets. In a 29 gallon for over the winter. They were usually in a turtle pond for the warmer seasons. Now I gotta build a secondary because my turtle has tasted blood. all my fish get along perfectly fine. Building a canopy for it, will probably make a video showing my winter-over stocked tank.
The staff at a well known fancy Goldfish shop/importer (who grow them the size of softballs) recommends 80 degrees F for growing them big. I was surprised.
Thai Goldfish for sure, local shop by my house keeps it's stores tanks all 79 degrees. I had alot of swim bladder issues at 70-75 with them, I switched to 79 and swim bladder issues are way less frequent, they need the higher temps for digestion.
So I have a 60 gallon tank currently with one ranchu goldfish, soon to be followed by a second fancy, a few snails and a lone amano shrimp. I’m currently working on setting up a large piece of driftwood and then I will be adding some anubius, Java fern and Amazon sword plants. Once I do I would like to get a cleaner type fish and a schooling fish. The school will most likely be the white cloud or rice fish, and I liked the idea of a hoplo. But I’m not sure how many I should get, any advice would be awesome
I had a male Bristlenose Pleco that definitely did NOT get along with goldfish (Sarasa Comets). He wasn't underfed and he wasn't sucking on their slime coat. He spent most of his time under a piece of driftwood, and whenever my goldfish (larger than himself) would get too close, he would dart out and chase them away. A short time later the goldfish would return and he would repeat the performance. They never did learn to avoid his hiding place. Eventually, it escalated to the point where he started actually attacking the goldfish and ripping off scales and I had to separate them. I later kept that same Bristlenose with a variety of small tropical fish (Zebra Danios, Cory Catfish, Neon Tetras, etc.) with no problems.
Just picked up a dojo loach, was gonna build a tank for a few of them, but I didn't really want a goldfish for tankmates...any recommendations for a dojo loach tank? I would like to see what you think, but I haven't been able to find a video on your opinion on this
*Not sure what foods to feed your goldfish and their tank mates? Check out our favorites: **geni.us/GoldfishFood*
I have been feeding Cobalt large cichlid sinking pellets for about a year now. My two have been very happy since the change. I have had people jump my butt because they say this food is horrible for goldfish. When I ask why, they cannot give me an answer backed up with scientific data. I cannot find any research data that would indicate that this food would be detrimental to my fin babies. What are your thoughts? Thank you.
Aquarium Co-Op Cory have ever raised Tripp’s can you make a video about their care and tank mates?
I just saw the video... they have a hillstream loach as a pleco... comments are turned off too
I think large danios, not giant are good mates. They are fast and hardy.
I have silver sharks red tailed sharks rainbow sharks and golden Rainbow sharks and a goldfish and a angelfish And the goldfishes old tank mate but my going to Sarah’s stay have babies so they are in the different tank
Hello. Don’t laugh … I’m a grown woman who has had a lifelong fear of fish. Sounds hilarious, I know. A flopping or dead fish creates pure terror. Watching and educating myself about goldfish is a self-imposed therapy for me and I appreciate your channel. Thank you!
How did it work out for you? Still have fear of fish?
I just wanted to say that your channel inspired me to get fish of my own......... and it was the best decision I’ve ever made😀😀😀
Me too! And here I am 2 years and three tanks later! Welcome to being broke!
@@shanecoffey7665 RIP YOUR BILLS
thats why i only have 1 tank ;00
I love reading comments like this!
@@shanecoffey7665 Definitely, I thought I spent a lot on my first planted tank ($150), but when I got to my third planted tank….hoo boy ($500)
Fish reduce stress/anxiety which is good for the heart and they are low in cholesterol which is good for heart health as well. 🐟
While I do not have a gold fish, I want to thank you for this video and sharing your experience and expertise! I would encourage those with fish to listen to Cory... his advice has saved me tons of money hahaha
A big school of White Clouds would look great in the 800.
A big school of small schooling fish in a huge tank always make for some of the best spectacles in the whole World.
Finally! This should always be on top of the “Tankmates for Goldfish” algorithm.
It was at the top of mine
I grew up with fish tanks in the 1980s because of my Dad and am getting back into it now.....just wanted to say aquarium coop is AMAZING!! Brings back memories and learning so much more😀😀
Honestly, goldfish are already so beautiful on there own, why do people push poor goldfish to to high temps, or other fish to to low, when you could just have a hill stream loach or two, and your goldfish, boom! Great looking tank!
kurt zingler Thats very true, it’s just important to recognize that you can have more than just a hill stream loach. Dojo loaches and plenty of other fish do better at a cooler temperature as well. You don’t have to push things to the limit and make things stressed in order to have additional fish in your tank
I’ve got golden dojo’s and a baby bristlenose with them
I agree... Wish i would have just kept it gold fish
kurt zingler why do people put goldfish and bettas in bowls with no filters or adequate space, and for bettas no heater, answer: people are idiots
Paige Hudgins I wouldn’t say they’re idiots. Just misinformed. It’s easy to do stuff like that when you see a lot of other people doing it
Best tank mates
1-10: Other goldfish
WOW So impressed...........
But, it depends on the type of goldfish, fancies with fancies, single tails, with single tails.
@@KuchiKopi179 but you can put double tail goldfish with single tail goldfish, I got a goldfish with big eyes and its double tail and another fish but idk what it is but its double tail
cool
@@crockdog9838 yh i have a fantail with comets it’s just as fast
I have 3 comet goldfish (feeder rescues) with 9 golden white clouds, lots of plants. No problems, and they look great together. The colors blend nicely, contrast beautifully with the green plants. Fairly low maintenance, minimal water changes needed, probably because of all the plants, which my Goldie’s don’t bother with much, including lots of hanging roots from water lettuce. Very relaxing aquarium to sit and watch.
how many gallons. I got two comets, and I'm thinking about 100 gallons
@@processrauwill7922 my 2 gold fish are in a 5 gallon tank
@@braydenroberts7297 that’s definitely not enough lol
@@processrauwill7922 im getting a 10 gallon today i have a fancy gold fish and a comet
@@braydenroberts7297 make that a 20 probably
I kept gold mystery snails & golden algae eaters in a small (100 gal) , planted and filtered pond with 3 to 4 fancy goldfish. I hope that they were nearly as happy as they made me. 🙂
My outdoor pond goldfish love their new rosy red minnow friends. They play nice and I've seen absolutely no aggression.
Glad I found this video - just upgraded the filtration system on my 55g goldfish tank and want to add a bit more fish. Thanks!
That’s always a fun thing to do honestly, I just did the same with my 75 gallon…..
Thanx Cory. Never knew you could keep so many different fish with goldfish. I was under the impression that pretty much they had to be kept alone because they were a colder water fish. Glad you cleared that up. 👍😎✌🍄
I was about to but some otocinclus for my goldfish tank and I'm really glad I watched this video before I did. Thanks for saving me and my fish a lot of potential trouble, I love this channel so much!
I have three goldfish (two comets and an oranda). Their only current tank mate is a pleco. I love the idea of adding in a dojo loach! I’ll have to look into them some more.
I feel like a rare case then!! My goldfish were feeder fish until we saved them and put them in an outdoor pond. Once the pond was at risk to freezing we put the fish with our cichlids cause we thought we would just try. And they love it!!! Haven’t had any issues and it’s been over a year! Some other tank mates are 2 clown loaches, 3 HUGE plecos, and a red tail blue loach!
Haha well if you put them in almost freezing water I can see why’d they prefer the tank
Love this! Been thinking about getting a hillstream loach or bristlenose for my goldfish tank for a while. I keep variatus platties (sunburst wag tails) with my 4 shubunkins in a planted 75 gallon at the moment and they've slowly expanded their population but most fry get eaten (as intended). It sounds like a hillstream loach or 2 is probably the way to go for me, although the blue eye lemon longfin bristlenose is really eye catching... almost like a gold colored koi or something.
From personal experience White Cloud minnows work so wonderful with goldfish. Mine are definitely too big to be eaten and its so cute watching them try to follow my fancy 😂💕
Thanks so much! I have been looking for tank members for my goldfish and this really helped
I have a question… that tank behind you is like my dream but I’ve had a 20 gallon and only had 2 at all times and cleaning was insane. I was cleaning it every week, if I remember correctly, or once a month but the waste would mess a lot with water levels. What is the best fish/fishes that actually help with maybe eating that waste. Or maybe I’m asking the question wrong.. How do you keep your water levels perfect all the time with all the waste from the fancies? Bristle nose plenco?? Also is having no gravel on the bottom easier for clean up? I think this channel is great thank you for the videos.. huge help!
There is nothing you can add to your tank to remove wastes unfortunately as all living beings produce their own waste too. That just means you either need to do multiple water changes a week or get a bigger tank so it takes longer for those wastes to build up. 🙂
Just subscribed! I'm new in the fish hobby and loving it so far I started a channel and you inspired me!
I love your common sense approach!
Looking for a few friend to help keep my 12 year old common goldfish’ tank clean. This really helped!
I love watching your videos. I have developed MTS from you and I'm loving it, also have tried my first plants ever thanks to your easy products and tutorials keep up the amazing work.
I just found your channel , subbed and notified right away. My first ever fish went in my 40 gallon aquarium yesterday. Thems goldfish , 5 put in there.
Hoping you continue to post very informative videos .Thank you very very much. From an older guy up in Canada.
Upgrade the tank when they grow that's really too small
My go to guy for aquarium tips. Very knowledgeable fella
Now I want a hillstream loach
I have 3😊
In my 65, I currently have a single ranchu, two medium dojo’s, and a small school of white clouds. This tank was originally just a grow out tank for three baby ranchu before they get moved out to my pond, but tragedy struck this summer and I lost all of my goldfish except the one ranchu when my city did something weird with the water supply. The poor lone ranchu was depressed until I moved in some buddies from my other tanks and now he is so happy derping around the tank with the other fish. Multiple water tests make me think there is heavy metal or something else that doesn’t come up on my tests. I just can’t do water changes during the summer now. 2020 happened, so my pond is drained until spring and this little ranchu is stuck in the house until then too.
In Australia the Tandanus catfish is a great tankmate for goldfish, can go outside year round in temperate regions as well.
"a hotdog with fins".
I love that line to makes me laugh every time
Lovely Orandas behind you. I love the full round fins.
I added feeder fish, most were eaten but not all of them. Some have now grown to pretty much to full size and make a lovely addition to my small ponds (including some long-tailed ones). I added four rosy barbs to the pond that has the larger fish, and they all seem to get along just fine 🙂. I’ve got an array of goldfish, too, including plain old comets, blackmoors, telescopics, orandas, subunkins, pearl scales, bubble eyes, celestial eyes, one angel tail and one ryukin. I inherited most of the goldfish when we moved here, a couple of years ago, but I’ve found a nice balance of varieties of gold- and other fish, snails, vegetation, algae and pond visitors (like the tree-frogs who come down to lie on the water for a drink, or mosquitoes who venture too close to the surface of the water, for too long). I’m going to get some more fish, now that I’ve seen this; I’ve watched lots of so-called experts who warned against so many things that appeared would work, and suggested so many things that really couldn’t work (I had to double check their facts as I don’t really know much about fish other than keeping hardy, cold-water fish alive in a small, outdoor setting, the benefit of which is that I don’t need to keep the glass immaculately clean because the algae helps create a more natural environment for all manner of life in there). Thank you for reiterating the principles of finding tank-mates for goldfish and explaining the facts and logic behind it all 🙂 xxxoooxxx ❤️
This goldfish tank has made you a personal hero of mine. The variatus platy being cold hardy was something i did not know. On a related note Ive got a gold dojo loach i put in my 120 about a week ago, (plan on adding another pair soon) last few days he has taken to swimming into the current from the HOB and then abruptly doing what I can only describe as playing possum. He will float stiff as a board for a few moments, then take off. I do not believe it is a swim bladder issue, he can stay on the bottom whenever he wants, but coming home to see your loach "stuck" to the filter does nothing good for my blood pressure. Otherwise he is very active, burrowing in the gravel occasionally, absolutely destroys his food. Only tank mates are goldies and a bristlenose I haven't seen since I put in a month ago. Anybody else had this behavior? Looked about online and answers were all over the place.
Thank you so much! I was hoping you would do a goldfish tankmates video.i have giant danios in my goldfish tank so also a great tankmate they are even breeding in my tank.
Troy Johnson same bro
Awesome video man definitely gave me some great ideas for what is possible.
To feel my bristlenoses (babies at the moment 5mths old), i have a skull ornament they hide in, so every second day i put a vegie wafer into the eye hole of the skull where the goldfish can't get into. When they get to big to hide in the skull i will have to come up with a new plan.
I also put some sinking food into the bushy plant hoping they get some of that to.
Interesting tips. As always good with general guidelines and what to keep in mind.
Great tank mates video and information 😎👍🏻
Thank you Cory you are the go to guys for knowledge!!!
Can I put a tetra with a gold fish like a black stripe tetra
Reticulated hillstream loaches ROCK!
Thanks for the nice videos all the time. I hope your back heals very quickly.
Thank you for this video! Great info!
I have some snails for my fish and they are very calming and have no aggression
fathead minnows, do really good with comets. cheap (feeders) and are very active.
FINALLY. Someone else that keep those. When we do our pond we're running shubunkin and white minnow. Will also be growing koi to sell at size.
I have those in my pond in Denver with my goldfish and koi. They made it through the winter here without any extra heat.
Great video! :) Another species that seems to work really well in a goldfish tank (at least with single-tailed goldfish and wakins) is the siamese algae eater. They're very friendly tank mates with a "food response" that is similar to that of goldfish, so they don't get outcompeted at feeding time. Goldfish are also effective dither fish for the SAE's, making them feel more at ease. Other species my goldfish are currently kept with are panda garras, hoplo cats and some corydoras (large enough to be a safe combo). Very peaceful tank. 👌
Are those the same as Chinese algae eaters?
@@brickosaurus2276 Which ones specifically do you mean? :)
@@Aqua_Gino well I heard that Chinese algae eaters are not safe to have with goldfish because they tend suck the slime coat even if you feed them separately. I believe petco sells them with goldfish. I don't know if there is a difference or not
@@brickosaurus2276 Oh I see. Yeah I would never trust a Chinese algae eater with peaceful/vulnerable fish like goldfish. The scientific name of the species you don't want is Gyrinocheilus aymonieri. If you compare it closely to a Crossocheilus species (the ones you want) you'll learn to spot the difference. 🙂
By the way, sometimes the Chinese algae eater is labeled as "Siamese". And there are species which look like the actual Siamese algae eaters but which are not. There are some articles on the internet which explain the difference nicely.
Thank you for this video! I have a 75 gallon tank I'm setting up with an Oranda and a Ryukin fancy. my plan is to have pearlweed and S. Repens carpet the bottom as a buffer between the open water and the bottom as well as a cavernous rocky area to the side with space for the smaller fish to enter/exit but not the goldfish, I want to get a couple dojo loaches to live down there and some white clouds or variatus platys
Fish co-op really amazing .
I have two gold fish and along with them are 4 mollies 8 guppys 2 sword tail and 2 tank cleaners
I used to keep rosey barbs. Used to bite my fingers when cleaning
I currently have pictus cats, yo-yo loaches, otocinclus and a mystery snail, with my two fancy goldfish. I got the otocinclus before I saw this video. Started with four and currently at two otos. Never found the two missing otos, so possibly eaten. Thanks for this helpful video!
I appreciate this video very very much! I'm adopting a Shubunkin that I've set up a 75 gallon for and I've been trying to figure out good tank mates for her that aren't just the pair of golden loaches she's already buddies with. The longfin rosy barbs sound to me like a great long term plan if the bio-load ends up being light enough to handle her, her buddies, and the snails I'm planning on adding in. I also considered the hillstream loaches, and it's really nice to finally hear someone say they can work with goldfish.
Haplo catfish sometimes scream when you catch them they press air trough their gills
its weird to hear them scream like they do
I keep my lion head ranchu with some rainbow fish they do very well together in my personal experience so far
Hi I’ve got.
1 common GF,
2 comet GF,
3 fantails GF,
2 wood shrimp,
4 sunset plates,
5 S&P corries
5 albino corries
1 zebra snail,
Temperature is at 23c with 2 heaters in a aqua one AR850 165lt tank. No problems with clouding and my nitrates at 0, @ph7. 2 goldfish at at 3” noise to tail. Working for me so far.
I want to mix some fish with a BIG mystery snail. 10 gallon tank. Any recommendations??
Mollies should be good
@@feitanportor9780 thanks! I was looking at mollies I think they’re really nice. I ended up just getting a few Cory catfish and they all get along in harmony lol
@@franklinfocus that’s great!😊 you should do a RUclips video on it!
So something like a Striped Raphael Catfish would be a good match?
Thank you. I been wanting to upgrade my tank and your video has been very informative. 😃 you answered every question I had
I have 4 otocinclus and a bristlenose pleco with my goldfish. My goldfish is so bulky that he can't swim that fast, and my otocinclus are SO fast. They cross the tank in the blink of an eye. I can't see him ever catching them. I also have a ton of plants for them to hide in, too, though. My pleco has never sucked on my goldfish, but he's really well fed. My goldfish used to nip my plants and rip them up until I started mixing veggies into his diet just FYI for people having the same problem. If you keep them well fed and satisfy their craving for veggies they won't terrorize your plants as bad.
How do you feed both the hillstream loach and the goldfish together?
could ghost shirmp work? looking for non agressive bottom cleaning tank mates
What are you’re thoughts about a Fancy goldfish and Rainbow fish aquarium?
I have found that clownplecos do really well with goldfish. The fancy ones anyways. You have to balance the temp a bit more, but in between 70-80 seems to make them all fairly happy 🧡
I like your funny words magic man
I keep 3 hillstream loaches with 3 goldfish in a 30 gallon tank. I have them for 1 month now and I am wondering how can I feed them and what? Goldfish will not allow a algae wafer to exist over 2 minutes, they eat eveything!! Any advice?
I keep a goldfish with mollies, they are decent size so they don’t get eaten, peaceful and while they are tropical fish, they can go a little bit colder than most trivial fish.
WARNING!!! The very first fish tank I had (40L) with a small black Moor + a butterfly telescope + a bristlenose pleco
I noticed the pleco wasn't getting enough food so I brought algae sinking pellets.
A couple days after I started feeding the pellets I realised that my black Moor was eating them and overfeeding way too much. Soon after my black Moor got dropsy from overeating and died. Easy mistake for beginners just thought I'd put this out there. I rehomed the pleco.
Hi thanks can a molly handle cooler water? Are they the same as a platty?
Adult white clouds are working with the fancy gold fish, if you have a lot of water change and good water flow, it works. 🙂 But they will eat them, if they are to small.
Rhodeus spp (cool water). - Its a cool looking, Barb like schooling fish. It gets a bit chunky so it would be hard for a Goldfish to swallow and it also has a very interesting breeding strategy, reminiscent of the shell dwellers.
Thanks Cory for the tips. Have never mixed other fish with my goldfish.
Hey! Do you think it would work as well with a longfin bristlenose?
Thinking about the tail, that they might nag on it
I have been running pictus catfish with a common gold fish for a while now at about 74 degrees. All are very happy in a 40 gal.
Thanks, very interesting.
Can u put cleaner snails in a gold fish tank I’m looking for a cleaner
Same rules apply. If the fish can't fit it in it's mouth then yes.
The problem is they don't clean poo and that's the main problem with goldfish. Cleaning the substrate and water changes are your only real options for a clean tank.
That being said I won a comet goldfish at a fair six years ago and with little effort the fish thrives.
I have had snails but never tried other fish because of the added poo.
Mine have some mystery snails and whiteclouds with them. So far so good
I’m a beginner, thank you so much for this! ❤️
we have a park witha big pond in town here. there has to be about 200 huge gold fish just schooling around. take the children to feed the ducks and the fish. the city even got a big fountian to keep the pond ice free (mostly ice free) in the winter months
So my roomate got a ciclied and put it with my gold fish it hasn't been aggressive so far should i leave it in or take it out
Opinion on keeping Mystery, Apple, Snails. I have 4 gold snails in my 40g breeder with 2 ranchu goldfish & 7ish gold white clouds.
Hello I would recommend looking into a video he made about snails and goldfish they can choke up on the baby's so a nerite would be better they only breed in salted water
I kept some mystery snails with my bubble eye goldfish and the poor snails spent most the time cooped up in their shell because the goldfish would try and eat their antennae and face. I felt bad for them, and they ate my water lettuce so I did not feel they were a good mix.
I swear you look like someone I knew in the Army. Birdwell 82nd ABN 😂.
Great vids. Keep em going.
Hi!! Are Molly’s aggressive or not? I keep reading different opinions and I have them in a tank with my goldfish
Tankmate suggestion for the 800 goldfish tank... Danio danglia, Moustache Danio.
BIG active peaceful schoolers (larger than giant danio).
I think a big group of about 40 or 50 would look amazing in there.
They're also very fast; no way a goldfish can catch them.
Hey cory! if i have a dojo loach in the 40 gallon would i be able to keep a few dwarf pea puffers? not planning on it just an interesting concept
Pea puffers need really warm water, dojos need it cooler. Thats a huge no
I'm not sure I could say it's a huge no like the other commentor. However it wouldn't be the easiest combo. You'd want to run the temps at about 74-75. Your pea puffers may torment the dojo loach by nipping. However they might never do that either. If you did try it, you'd need to be ready to take action. My advice would be find different fish to keep in the 40, and do a pea puffer tank dedicated down the road.
Aquarium Co-Op sounds good!
@Aquarium Co-Op I've got 37 gallon tank and I've got 5 small orandas but they makes water cloudy very fast just in about 5 day. I feed them 3 times a day which they can finish in about 4 min. I've got a box filter but I don't think it’s enough. Can you please suggest me a good one for me? Thanks love from Uk.
Hey everyone! I have currently got a smaller tank with a couple of variatus platys and a few danios, as well as a couple of amano shrimp I rescued from a friends tank. In the near future I plan on upgrading to a 55 gallon (200L) tank of my dreams. I really want to begin that tank with 2 fancy goldfish (a black moor and a fantail) and was thinking about repeating my current set up of variatus platys and danios. Really glad to see the variatus platys are in this video, but I was just wondering on people’s thoughts on danios? Like the white clouds obviously they are a schooling fish and are pretty fast - so they would likely dodge being eaten in my opinion! But any reasons why I should/shouldn’t would be ace, thanks!
I've had super great success with koi swordtails, with both fancy and very large comets. The swordtails grew from 6 to probably close to 100 over the summer, and voraciously attack food with the goldfish, which is fun to watch. The platy's population only went from 6 to about 9 over the summer. In the month I've brought the platy's inside to their own tank, they're populations at about 40 now, and some fry are free swimming with the adults. Not sure how the swordtail fry were so successful with the goldfish...
I had a 150 gallon tank with 2 angelfish, a single fantail goldfish to eat the snail population boom (he loved them), 6 Blue spotted sunfish (North American native), cory catfish, and a ton of platy/swordtail hybrids. Yeah, the platy babies would get eaten, but they always bred faster than they got predated.
Any suggestion for a 55 gallon that has 2 fancy Goldfish and 2 Dojo loaches - algae eater? I added mystery snails, but they will not live in there (I find empty shells), LFS thinks loaches ate them, live...ICK!
I have 10 dwarf pale blue ghromie s in a 55 gallon tank with 2 ivory/ peach fancy goldfish. 6 Coriadoras help to keep the tank clean..
Love this! Currently deciding between two setups for my 36 gallon bowfront.
1. 2 or 3 young angelfish, a snowball pleco and a few khuli loaches.
2. 2 Smaller Oranda goldfish and some hillstream loaches.
Anyone wanna vote? 1 or 2?
Sorry to bother you , I have bought a second hand tank, it has come with everything I need. I would like to know if I can use the filter the way it came. Or should I throw all the filter material away, sterilising the new unit then put new filter material in. Thanks in advance.
You'd be fine to just start it up with the old media.
Only think Ive put with my goldfish was a pleco & applesnails. The applesnails got huge!!
I have Flying fox, zebra danios, white cloud minnows with my group of 4 shubunkin/2 koi and 2 small comets.
In a 29 gallon for over the winter.
They were usually in a turtle pond for the warmer seasons. Now I gotta build a secondary because my turtle has tasted blood.
all my fish get along perfectly fine.
Building a canopy for it, will probably make a video showing my winter-over stocked tank.
I have two comet goldfish in a 55 gallon tank. What would you recommend putting with them as tankmates? I
Maybe watch the video And see how you like it
The staff at a well known fancy Goldfish shop/importer (who grow them the size of softballs) recommends 80 degrees F for growing them big. I was surprised.
Thai Goldfish for sure, local shop by my house keeps it's stores tanks all 79 degrees. I had alot of swim bladder issues at 70-75 with them, I switched to 79 and swim bladder issues are way less frequent, they need the higher temps for digestion.
I have a 60 gallon tank with 2 fancy goldfish, will a school of minnows work well? Possibly a zebra danio?
So I have a 60 gallon tank currently with one ranchu goldfish, soon to be followed by a second fancy, a few snails and a lone amano shrimp. I’m currently working on setting up a large piece of driftwood and then I will be adding some anubius, Java fern and Amazon sword plants. Once I do I would like to get a cleaner type fish and a schooling fish. The school will most likely be the white cloud or rice fish, and I liked the idea of a hoplo. But I’m not sure how many I should get, any advice would be awesome
I had a male Bristlenose Pleco that definitely did NOT get along with goldfish (Sarasa Comets). He wasn't underfed and he wasn't sucking on their slime coat. He spent most of his time under a piece of driftwood, and whenever my goldfish (larger than himself) would get too close, he would dart out and chase them away. A short time later the goldfish would return and he would repeat the performance. They never did learn to avoid his hiding place. Eventually, it escalated to the point where he started actually attacking the goldfish and ripping off scales and I had to separate them. I later kept that same Bristlenose with a variety of small tropical fish (Zebra Danios, Cory Catfish, Neon Tetras, etc.) with no problems.
Plecos are tropical, their temp needs don't match a goldfish at all.
Just picked up a dojo loach, was gonna build a tank for a few of them, but I didn't really want a goldfish for tankmates...any recommendations for a dojo loach tank? I would like to see what you think, but I haven't been able to find a video on your opinion on this