Comments on: Goldfish Compatible Fish

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:40:28 +0000

In addition to my 7 fancy goldfish, I also keep white clouds, a plecostomus and have 5 female bettas. The water temperature is maintained at about 72-74 F, I have a well planted tank with lots of areas for the bettas to have a time out from the much larger (but much slower) goldfish. Their blue and red collors as well as their interactions with each other add a lot of interest to my aquarium. I believe the bettas would prefer a warmer temperature however they seemed completely normal and very active after about 1-2 weeks acclimitizing to the new tank.

Good Luck!
Jeff

By: Mohit Chawla

Mohit Chawla — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:03:20 +0000

Hi Guys,

I have three gold fishes, 1 Black ghost, 1 Sucker, Few Pearl Scale gold fishes, 4 Angel and 2 Black Moor in a same tank.

Today i found Black Moor dead as some other fish has eaten their fins and 6 Pearl scale were also dead. Please let me know which all fishes are compatible…..

By: Holly

Holly — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 04:36:05 +0000

I have had a problem with the cory eating the coating off gold fish. It took us a couple of months and quiet a few fish to figure this out. The cory would suck on the fish as to cleaning the fish within two days the goldfish was dead.

By: FilterGuy

FilterGuy — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:28:21 +0000

A 5 gallon is way too small for a single goldfish.

By: matt

matt — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:05:50 +0000

i’m looking for a pet to clean my tank that has one goldfish in it. the tank is 5 gallons, has live plants, and the temperature is between 72F and 82F. recent posts have talked about snails, but with certain specifications of the tank. does anyone have any suggestions for what kind of snail i should get?

By: Dee-Anira

Dee-Anira — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:45:59 +0000

You can keep slow or disabled goldfish with White Cloud Minnows. I’ve never had, say, a Black Moor try to munch on a minnow.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:21:46 +0000

Thank you for your comment pappyy3, it is very knowledgeable.

Evidence for corys eating goldfish slime coat is anecdotal at best, we agree.

However, corys have been kept alongside goldfish very successfully at temperatures of around 20-22 celsius, which is comfortable for goldfish.

We also agree with the point you made about Chinese Algae Eaters. It was not made forcefully enough in the original blog post. They are totally unsuitable for goldfish tanks, and as you rightly stated will eat slime coat.

Also good point about the snails increasing in number quickly. They are very easy to breed!

By: pappyy3

pappyy3 — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:26:27 +0000

Thanks for the interesting article. I have been keeping and breeding a great variety of fish over the last 35 Years and would like to point out that some points outlined in your post, may be mis-leading to newbies in terms of compatible fish to keep with goldfish:

Corys

There are no cories that I know of that are sold for goldfish tanks (nor should they be). They are tropical fish, and as such require warmer water thatn is normally recommended for goldfish.

Kept correctly (in schools of 4 to 6 fish), they can be very active.

They generally get on well with goldfish, if the goldfish are kept in a heated aquarium. I have NEVER experienced a Cory Catfish eating the slimecoat of Goldfish or any other fish for that matter. Not sure where you researched your information from.

Chinese Algae Eater

This is one fish I would definitely NOT recommend keeping with goldfish. They are fine when they are small, but become aggressive as they get larger, and these fish WILL try to eat the slimecoat on your goldfish! Definitely not recommended for Goldfish tanks.

Snails

Unless you keep goldfish in heated aquariums, the Golden Apple snail will not survive. They require very warm water to thrive. In some common snails that are suited to coldwater tanks are the pond snails and the Red Ramshorn snails. The only drawback with these is that they overtake your aquarium (numbers) in a short space of time unless you keep them under control.

Hope the above helps