Goldfish Babies

[dulce]

Hi this could be a REALLY silly question, i keep tropicals and there are TINY baby goldfish in my mums pond, they keep getting all eaten as she just cleared out some of her pond weed, would it harm the fish to put them in a tropical for about a month so they are big enough to go in our smaller pond (there are newts which will eat them at the moment) but the newts are not that big so i think they only need a month or so ?? would it be too hot ??

thanks

 

[black angel]

I wouldnt risk putting them in with the tropicals because they may bring disease in and the temperature wont be to the goldies liking either.
How many are there? Usually people leave them and the strongest and fittest survive but if you dont want to do that then you would need to buy either a tank or something large to hold them in.
I'm sure other pond owners will be able to offer more advice though

 

[bribones]

a lot will depend on how tropical your tank is and the type of fish you keep in there as some of the tropicals will eat the fry,you would have to float the fry to aclaimatise them to the tank temprature,they should be ok at low 70s,but id just put them into the smaller pond most should survive the onslaught of the newts

 

[black angel]

You cant put fish from a pond into an already established aquarium. It doesnt matter if it was a coldwater tank or not, theres so many diseases and viruses that pond fish carry that would wipe out an aquarium.

 

[dulce]

its just a guppy fry grow out tank, i often bring in the oxygenating weed and they seem fine with it, and my puffers eat the snails and dont have any bother..

So the general opinion is let them take their chances ??
they are so small and cute and such pretty colours !

 

[black angel]

how big is the grow out tank? I was thinking it was a big community tank lol.

 

[dulce]

oh its not my biggest tank its like 60litres - my first tank i bought ! only wanted to put them in for a month i know its not big enough for goldfishes !

 

[black angel]

Its only about 13 gallons and theres still the risk of disease.
I would say no, but the final decision of course is up to you.

 

[sylvia]

You also need to consider that you're going to have to keep them for a bit more than just a month as winter's coming and you realy cannot move a goldfish (particularly one living in tropical temps) out in the middle of winter and expect it (particularly these young ones) to survive the huge change. If you were to keep them in the tank for much longer you'll find they grow incredibly quickly and will soon be over-stocked and over-crowded severely - to the point, possibly, where they are permanently damaged health-wise. Those are reasons besides the fact that any other fish in the tank are likely to end up dead from introduced pathogens and the fact that goldfish shouldn't be kept in a tropical tank.