Please Help

[Rayne]

i have a large 50 gal tank currently housing tropicals. I am bring the tropicals back to the store and planning to go back to goldfish. I have a big black moor in another tank and plan to rehouse him in the 50 gal.

my question is can i house small fancy golfish in the 50 with a black moor thats about 5-6 inches? I want to make sure that the moor wont eat the smaller fish, although there is a beta in with him not and they are like best friends!!I know all the rules about inches of fish per gal and i am also aware that gold fish are dirty and need more room per inch than tropicals.

I plan to get 6-7 new fancys and and raise them till they get big enough to be in a year round pond. Where i live it costs a fortune to buy larger fish for a pond so i plan to raise fish until they are big enough to go in a pond and give them to friends and family who have ponds but don't want to spend hundreds of dollars stocking them. It may take a few years to help everybody out but i get to enjoy raising the fish till then. I will keep getting little ones as the others are big enough.

 

[black angel]

It should be ok to put the big one with smaller fish as long as the smaller ones are at least 2 inches long. To avoid adding disease quarantine any new arrivals for a month to make sure they are disease and parasite free. For a 50 gallon tank with one already in, I think 4 others would grow quite quickly to a desired size for you.

 

[jackobean]

it should be okay as the bigger fish will be slower than the small fancy fish, am i right?