How many

[cuba408]

How many cory fish can i place in a 50 gallon tank with 5 small fancy goldfish

 

[breezer40]

No expert on gold fish but they are coldwater fish and corys are tropical so the two wouldn't really mix.

 

[Bloo]

How many cory fish can i place in a 50 gallon tank with 5 small fancy goldfish

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I think you'll find most people will say none
Firstly, Goldies are cold water fish and cories are tropical.

Secondly, traditionally fancy goldfish require 20 gallons per fish as they are such heavy waste producers.

 

[cuba408]

the tank is at a constant 78 degrees and ive got plenty of filtration. what im asking it how many should i place in a 50 gallon tank with 5 VERY SMALL GOLDIES?

Thanks

 

[pica_nuttalli]

small goldies turn into big goldies at a pretty high rate of speed, so none. you're full.

 

[cuba408]

NEVERMIND

 

[breezer40]

You asked for advice and thats what we tryed to give

 

[cuba408]

ok i dont even have my goldfish in there yet

Ok lets start all over


How many corys can i fit in a 50 gallon tank?

 

[Bloo]

Some people seems to ask questions only to to affirm their thoughts. If they don't like what they hear, they are not open to constructive criticism and stomp off.

There are those who want to broaden their horizons with open mind - and there are those with tunnel vision (or in select cases have blindness ).

C'est la vie.

 

[cuba408]

My tank is empty (except for the starter fish) my maneguensse just died and i cleaned out the tank. i want to start a community tank and i was just wondering about the cory fish. i wanted to put in goldfish but maybe i wont. how many corys would be a good number for a 50 gallon tank? AGAIN

 

[Bloo]

well, in an empty 50 gallon I'd say a school of 6.
Because presumably you'd want a few mid swimming fish too and need to account some space for them too

 

[pica_nuttalli]

ah, see that's what you should have said to start with

most commonly available cories have an adult size of about 3 inches and of course, the more the merrier for these little schooling fish. no fewer than 4 and probably no more than 10 if you want to have something else besides cory cats! remember, cory cats need a very fine substrate or else they will wear off their barbels and die of starvation. most cory cats have a natural lifespan of ten years or more, but that does vary across the species.

i actually seem to remember reading that bronze cories (C. aneaus) do fine in temperatures as low as 75 F, but don't hold me to that.

if you really want a coldwater bottom-dweller that exhibits a lot of the same behavior as a cory, you should consider a small group of dojo loaches. HOWEVER, dojos get quite large (a foot long!) so you could only have only a couple with no more than 3 goldies. but that could in turn make for a beautiful tank... you should double-check this recommendation; i'm by no measure a coldwater expert.

 

[cuba408]

your right pica i should have mentioned that i didnt have any goldfish yet.

SORRY YALL

sounds good ill post up any updated as i go along whenever the water is ready.

 

[jfrancho]

I have vivid recollections of extracting a cory cat from the mouth of a friend's prized oranda. I don't think the goldfish was really trying to eat the little cat, but in his normal foraging, sucked the unsuspecting (sleeping?) cory up. The cory did what was natural, which ended with the spiney fins of the cathish spearing through all that soft mouth tissue. Both lived, lesson learned.

 

[J_acon]

50 gallons just for cory's you can put up 50 inches worth of corys in there, maybe 10 inches more.