Pet fish...or w/e you call them...

[cvec7]

I like this site for info: http://fins.actwin.com/index.php

 

[.21Rc10GT]

Awesome site Cvec7. I just got home from petco, and ended up getting to little "suckers". lol... My parents said we are going to up grade when they need it... So it will work out fine... thanks for the help guys...

 

[olds97_lss]

Actually, Oscars don't go well with gold fish... they eat goldfish. And if you feed them live stuff all the time, the tank gets pretty messy and it gets pricey.

Pretty much any community type fish will work well with gold fish. Clown loach, weather loach, cory cats, angel fish, ghourami's, molly's... just go to petco and pretty much anything freshwater and community (non-aggressive and territorial) will be fine. Cichlids are not part of the "friendly" group. When they grow up, they kill pretty much anything thats their size or smaller. Even other Cichlids if you don't keep them well fed.

One plecostimous should be good for that tank. I have a 50g tall tank. My plecostimous grew from 2 inches to about 12 inches over a course of a few years, but he grew pretty quick in the first year or so. I also have a Chinese algae eater which are a nicer looking sucker fish. But a sail fin pleco doesn't look to bad either, except you rarely see them all fanned out.

 

[.21Rc10GT]

Yeah, i got 2 plecos... They wont be eating my goldfish... prolly the other way around if anything... I have a 46gal tank and 2 gold fish... one of em is a little more than a foot long and the other is close to 9 inches... The little plecos are scared... LOL

 

[RatzoRC]

I had a tank a few years ago, till my dog started gnawing on the tank stand causing a disaster.
It was a 110 gallon long tank.
I started out with the typical angel fish, some neons, and gold fish and so on.
I soon grew bored, and bought a Jack Dempsey, and a green terra.
Bad move.
They quickly began destroying the other fish.
So I figured that since I was going in that direction, I would buy a few Oscars.
They were tiny. About the size of my thumb nail, or a quarter.
Some were albino, most were black.
I started feeding them ciklid tablets....no good.
Then small amounts of baby gold fish....WOW! they wiped them out fast.
Some of the Oscars were getting bigger than the others and started eating them.
I moved onto Pacu's (a form of pirrana). They took care of the rest of the Oscars except for the two big ones.
2 big Oscars, 2 big Pacu's. I needed more fish.
I bought 2 snake heads. Nasty mothers. The fish would fight from time to time, but nothing serious.
But after a while,
Little by little, the fish were being killed by the snake heads.
But the sole survivor was one of the Pacu's.
He killed everything in the tank.
And yes, I fed them A LOT!
Hundreds of gold fish a week.
Now I had this giant tank, with one big fish that killed everything. I was affraid to put my hand in the tank.
What to do???
I bought a wolf fish. Holy poop! killed the Pacu in one day.
He was the sole survivor.
After that, much later, the tank fell over, and that was that.
Thats was a long post. sorry.

 

[.21Rc10GT]

That must have been a giant mess!!!

 

[jammin]

can i request a fish site, i used to work here it is the largest pet supplier in the world. The fish experts that work here are amazing, it is a huge hobby.

www.Drsfostersmith.com Click on fish it brings you to live aquaria.

I had a lobster which crawled out of the tank and know i am planning on getting freshwater stingrays. there about the size of a half dollar. hope that helps a little

 

[RatzoRC]

That must have been a giant mess!!!

LOL.
I had to section off the tank for cleaning.
I had to clean it often.
When the tank fell over.....Yes it was a mess.

Nothing like 110 gallons of water in your house.

 

[.21Rc10GT]

Nothing like 110 gallons of water in your house.

Flash Flood!!! :clap:

 

[RatzoRC]

My front steps were wet when I came home.
I said "WTF is that"?
I found out.
The wolf fish lost his last fight to the dog.

 

[.21Rc10GT]

Well, the new Plecos arent dead... I havent seen the goldfish go after em, so hopefully they will survive. I have some algea tablets... i dont really know how to use em... There arent instructions on the package... someone help? The tank has a bunch of algea on the back, and thats where they are hangin out...

 

[cvec7]

Ya, Your gold fish might eat the tiny plecos. I had two gold fish once and one tiny pleco, and I went out one day, and came back in the evening (i did feed them that day) and they friggin ate the pleco. They were still pickin at the bones when I got home too...

 

[Plaidfish]

Oscars rule.....you can feed em bugs you find around the house......mine got about 12" and were way cool to watch.....I could hold apple chunks out over the water and they jump for em......aggresive fish are too cool.....

 

[Revo Rancher]

Olds, the goldfish are HUGE, one is a foot long, almost a flippin carp! Any fish is going to have a hard time in that tank unless it is large enough. I did not recommend Oscars be mixed in with the GF, but it would be interesting! Most of the fish you mention might not make it as they are not big fish to begin with and do not grow much more than they are at the store bought stage.

Ratzo, great story.

I once had a blue damsel that kept being very agressive with all my other fish, chasing around the other damsels and humbugs, eating the fins off my yellow and blue tangs and puffer, stuff like that. I threw him from the saltwater tank into the oscar tank, which was 150 gals and had three foot long Tiger Oscars in it that were raised to jump a foot out of the tank for live goldfish. Sucker lived for three days without getting eaten, so I gave him mercy and threw him back in the SW tank. He lived for another year (about) after that! Toughest little fish I have ever seen.

 

[.21Rc10GT]

Yeah, my gold fish are 7 yrs old... They started out as those little .05 cent feeder fish.. My first ones died in a tank my grandparents gave us (my grandpa washed the tank with soap and water... not a good idea). So these current gold fish were the testers in that tank to see if it was safe. Well, it seemed ok, so we put all my fish in there. Well, they all died except 2... Now we just have 2 goldfish and to plecos (which are alive, but dont like to move around the tank. I think its a size thing)...

 

[Revo Rancher]

21rc, you'll be lucky if you see the plechs very often. They prefer the night to do their activities, and even then they are not 'swimming' fish like most others are.

 

[FRIDGE]

wow it seems like i missed out on a good thread. i have 1-55 gallon tank of african cichlids.. crazy little fishes try to bite my fingers! I'm surrently in the rpocess of setting up a FO SW tank. whoever said nitrates dont kill fish in freshwater tanks is crazy. i lost 4 africans it was the only water parameter high. also for alot of the live plants they require a lot of light. he live plants are good because they use the nitrate in the tank. I'm not a fish expert but i could tal about them forever.

 

[.21Rc10GT]

21rc, you'll be lucky if you see the plechs very often. They prefer the night to do their activities, and even then they are not 'swimming' fish like most others are.

ALright. I wasn't too sure about that. I just changed the water today (about a 90% change) and everything seems good. We are going to upgrade the tank size in about a year. Gonna try to sell this tank with it's stand and use that as a payment for a new tank. Leaning towards a 110+ gallon tank... The plecos get up to 1.5ft long, and the goldfish are almost there... Is there any other fish that can go with these? Like bala shark or something? Nothing aggresive, but just somethin cool looking...

 

[Revo Rancher]

Yeah, forgot about the Bala Shark(not a real shark, BTW). They come in small sizes, but I have seen some that were up to about 8 inches big. They are constant swimmers, too. Better than a large Angel fish!

 

[.21Rc10GT]

Would the Bala Shark (Actually part of the catfish familiy), be ok with the goldfish and plecos? When we get a bigger tank, i want some more fish in there!