IloveGouramis
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I was thinking of starting a 10 gallon tank with gold fish. Here are some of the stuff i need/want
No questions about:
10 gallon tank
Hood with light
Black/Blue background
Stand
Bubble wall
Questions:
Fake Plants
Should i use fake plants such as plastic ones? or do gold fish need real ones to survive?
Tahitian Moon Sand
So should i keep sand with goldfish? i dont really know if that is a good idea because i heard that goldfish give off a lot of waste and so if i wanted to filter out the muln, i would also suck out a good about of sand. And that sand does not compact.
Filter
I want to keep sand so i dont think an under groud filter would work =[. i dont think canister filters go to as small as 10 gallons so the only thing left is hang-on filters. Should i use 10 gallon ones or 20 gallons so that more of the tank is filtered? Or should i go higher?i just dont want to get one too high that will give off to much water current which in turn will maybe damage the fish or stir of the sand. And does anyone know a good style i should use as in a certain company that makes good products but are still cheap?
food
Does flake food work ok for gold fish? or should i buy pellets, maybe even both? :3
hideouts (clay pots, drift wood, rocks etc)
Do i really need it? im not saying that i dont want to buy it but are goldfish very timid?
Heater
I live in FLorida and it can get burning in the summer so should i get a heater (or coolerXD)and put it on whatever temp goldfish need. What is it anyways :3 ?
and last but not least, the fish themselves
Is 10 gallons to small to keep gold fish in the first place? i hope not because i really like the color of some. And do goldfish require other goldfish to live with or do they do ok by themselves? I was also thinking of getting one clown plec but if i shouldnt because they grow up to 4 inches and if you use the 1gallon per inch rule, thats only 6 left lol. I dont want the regular comet goldfish because in all my lfs's, they are sold as feeder fish and are very unhealthy. I was thinking somewhere in the margins of fantail or butterfly goldfish because i admire their fins. I was thinking something like this
which is a Calico Fantail goldfish but i dont know how big they grow. I have read up on the fishless cycle already so that wont be much of a problem with the ammonia/nitrites/nitrates.
I would love it if someone could post different pictures of gold fish.
Thanks in advance for any help
*researches some more*
Edit: i just found this fish, anyone know what it is? on the pic, it says its an American Fantail Goldfish, is that its real name? Heres a pic:
No questions about:
10 gallon tank
Hood with light
Black/Blue background
Stand
Bubble wall
Questions:
Fake Plants
Should i use fake plants such as plastic ones? or do gold fish need real ones to survive?
Tahitian Moon Sand
So should i keep sand with goldfish? i dont really know if that is a good idea because i heard that goldfish give off a lot of waste and so if i wanted to filter out the muln, i would also suck out a good about of sand. And that sand does not compact.
Filter
I want to keep sand so i dont think an under groud filter would work =[. i dont think canister filters go to as small as 10 gallons so the only thing left is hang-on filters. Should i use 10 gallon ones or 20 gallons so that more of the tank is filtered? Or should i go higher?i just dont want to get one too high that will give off to much water current which in turn will maybe damage the fish or stir of the sand. And does anyone know a good style i should use as in a certain company that makes good products but are still cheap?
food
Does flake food work ok for gold fish? or should i buy pellets, maybe even both? :3
hideouts (clay pots, drift wood, rocks etc)
Do i really need it? im not saying that i dont want to buy it but are goldfish very timid?
Heater
I live in FLorida and it can get burning in the summer so should i get a heater (or coolerXD)and put it on whatever temp goldfish need. What is it anyways :3 ?
and last but not least, the fish themselves
Is 10 gallons to small to keep gold fish in the first place? i hope not because i really like the color of some. And do goldfish require other goldfish to live with or do they do ok by themselves? I was also thinking of getting one clown plec but if i shouldnt because they grow up to 4 inches and if you use the 1gallon per inch rule, thats only 6 left lol. I dont want the regular comet goldfish because in all my lfs's, they are sold as feeder fish and are very unhealthy. I was thinking somewhere in the margins of fantail or butterfly goldfish because i admire their fins. I was thinking something like this
I would love it if someone could post different pictures of gold fish.
Thanks in advance for any help
*researches some more*
Edit: i just found this fish, anyone know what it is? on the pic, it says its an American Fantail Goldfish, is that its real name? Heres a pic:
/www.fishforums.net/Gold-fish-in-tanks-t43980.html
. Invest in as strong filtration as you can, its best to over-filter goldfish tanks as goldfish produce a lot of waste in comparsion to a lot of other fish.
This is completely untrue, there are also hundreds of people here on the forum who have sand in their freshwater tanks (including me), i would also go so far to say that sand is actually a better substrate for goldfish as it is easier to keep clean and the goldfish do not risk choking on it (which can happen with some types of gravel) when they look for food in the substrate.
So if you have sand insded of gravel is it ok to put a 'under gravel filter'.??
