I have been feeding Cobalt large cichlid sinking pellets for about a year now. My two have been very happy since the change. I have had people jump my butt because they say this food is horrible for goldfish. When I ask why, they cannot give me an answer backed up with scientific data. I cannot find any research data that would indicate that this food would be detrimental to my fin babies. What are your thoughts? Thank you.
I have silver sharks red tailed sharks rainbow sharks and golden Rainbow sharks and a goldfish and a angelfish And the goldfishes old tank mate but my going to Sarah’s stay have babies so they are in the different tank
Hello. Don’t laugh … I’m a grown woman who has had a lifelong fear of fish. Sounds hilarious, I know. A flopping or dead fish creates pure terror. Watching and educating myself about goldfish is a self-imposed therapy for me and I appreciate your channel. Thank you!
While I do not have a gold fish, I want to thank you for this video and sharing your experience and expertise! I would encourage those with fish to listen to Cory... his advice has saved me tons of money hahaha
I grew up with fish tanks in the 1980s because of my Dad and am getting back into it now.....just wanted to say aquarium coop is AMAZING!! Brings back memories and learning so much more😀😀
Honestly, goldfish are already so beautiful on there own, why do people push poor goldfish to to high temps, or other fish to to low, when you could just have a hill stream loach or two, and your goldfish, boom! Great looking tank!
kurt zingler Thats very true, it’s just important to recognize that you can have more than just a hill stream loach. Dojo loaches and plenty of other fish do better at a cooler temperature as well. You don’t have to push things to the limit and make things stressed in order to have additional fish in your tank
I have 3 comet goldfish (feeder rescues) with 9 golden white clouds, lots of plants. No problems, and they look great together. The colors blend nicely, contrast beautifully with the green plants. Fairly low maintenance, minimal water changes needed, probably because of all the plants, which my Goldie’s don’t bother with much, including lots of hanging roots from water lettuce. Very relaxing aquarium to sit and watch.
@@KuchiKopi179 but you can put double tail goldfish with single tail goldfish, I got a goldfish with big eyes and its double tail and another fish but idk what it is but its double tail
I kept gold mystery snails & golden algae eaters in a small (100 gal) , planted and filtered pond with 3 to 4 fancy goldfish. I hope that they were nearly as happy as they made me. 🙂
Thanx Cory. Never knew you could keep so many different fish with goldfish. I was under the impression that pretty much they had to be kept alone because they were a colder water fish. Glad you cleared that up. 👍😎✌🍄
Love this! Been thinking about getting a hillstream loach or bristlenose for my goldfish tank for a while. I keep variatus platties (sunburst wag tails) with my 4 shubunkins in a planted 75 gallon at the moment and they've slowly expanded their population but most fry get eaten (as intended). It sounds like a hillstream loach or 2 is probably the way to go for me, although the blue eye lemon longfin bristlenose is really eye catching... almost like a gold colored koi or something.
I was about to but some otocinclus for my goldfish tank and I'm really glad I watched this video before I did. Thanks for saving me and my fish a lot of potential trouble, I love this channel so much!
I have three goldfish (two comets and an oranda). Their only current tank mate is a pleco. I love the idea of adding in a dojo loach! I’ll have to look into them some more.
From personal experience White Cloud minnows work so wonderful with goldfish. Mine are definitely too big to be eaten and its so cute watching them try to follow my fancy 😂💕
I feel like a rare case then!! My goldfish were feeder fish until we saved them and put them in an outdoor pond. Once the pond was at risk to freezing we put the fish with our cichlids cause we thought we would just try. And they love it!!! Haven’t had any issues and it’s been over a year! Some other tank mates are 2 clown loaches, 3 HUGE plecos, and a red tail blue loach!
I just found your channel , subbed and notified right away. My first ever fish went in my 40 gallon aquarium yesterday. Thems goldfish , 5 put in there. Hoping you continue to post very informative videos .Thank you very very much. From an older guy up in Canada.
I love watching your videos. I have developed MTS from you and I'm loving it, also have tried my first plants ever thanks to your easy products and tutorials keep up the amazing work.
Thank you so much! I was hoping you would do a goldfish tankmates video.i have giant danios in my goldfish tank so also a great tankmate they are even breeding in my tank.
I have a question… that tank behind you is like my dream but I’ve had a 20 gallon and only had 2 at all times and cleaning was insane. I was cleaning it every week, if I remember correctly, or once a month but the waste would mess a lot with water levels. What is the best fish/fishes that actually help with maybe eating that waste. Or maybe I’m asking the question wrong.. How do you keep your water levels perfect all the time with all the waste from the fancies? Bristle nose plenco?? Also is having no gravel on the bottom easier for clean up? I think this channel is great thank you for the videos.. huge help!
There is nothing you can add to your tank to remove wastes unfortunately as all living beings produce their own waste too. That just means you either need to do multiple water changes a week or get a bigger tank so it takes longer for those wastes to build up. 🙂
I appreciate this video very very much! I'm adopting a Shubunkin that I've set up a 75 gallon for and I've been trying to figure out good tank mates for her that aren't just the pair of golden loaches she's already buddies with. The longfin rosy barbs sound to me like a great long term plan if the bio-load ends up being light enough to handle her, her buddies, and the snails I'm planning on adding in. I also considered the hillstream loaches, and it's really nice to finally hear someone say they can work with goldfish.
In my 65, I currently have a single ranchu, two medium dojo’s, and a small school of white clouds. This tank was originally just a grow out tank for three baby ranchu before they get moved out to my pond, but tragedy struck this summer and I lost all of my goldfish except the one ranchu when my city did something weird with the water supply. The poor lone ranchu was depressed until I moved in some buddies from my other tanks and now he is so happy derping around the tank with the other fish. Multiple water tests make me think there is heavy metal or something else that doesn’t come up on my tests. I just can’t do water changes during the summer now. 2020 happened, so my pond is drained until spring and this little ranchu is stuck in the house until then too.
This goldfish tank has made you a personal hero of mine. The variatus platy being cold hardy was something i did not know. On a related note Ive got a gold dojo loach i put in my 120 about a week ago, (plan on adding another pair soon) last few days he has taken to swimming into the current from the HOB and then abruptly doing what I can only describe as playing possum. He will float stiff as a board for a few moments, then take off. I do not believe it is a swim bladder issue, he can stay on the bottom whenever he wants, but coming home to see your loach "stuck" to the filter does nothing good for my blood pressure. Otherwise he is very active, burrowing in the gravel occasionally, absolutely destroys his food. Only tank mates are goldies and a bristlenose I haven't seen since I put in a month ago. Anybody else had this behavior? Looked about online and answers were all over the place.
Thank you for this video! I have a 75 gallon tank I'm setting up with an Oranda and a Ryukin fancy. my plan is to have pearlweed and S. Repens carpet the bottom as a buffer between the open water and the bottom as well as a cavernous rocky area to the side with space for the smaller fish to enter/exit but not the goldfish, I want to get a couple dojo loaches to live down there and some white clouds or variatus platys
I added feeder fish, most were eaten but not all of them. Some have now grown to pretty much to full size and make a lovely addition to my small ponds (including some long-tailed ones). I added four rosy barbs to the pond that has the larger fish, and they all seem to get along just fine 🙂. I’ve got an array of goldfish, too, including plain old comets, blackmoors, telescopics, orandas, subunkins, pearl scales, bubble eyes, celestial eyes, one angel tail and one ryukin. I inherited most of the goldfish when we moved here, a couple of years ago, but I’ve found a nice balance of varieties of gold- and other fish, snails, vegetation, algae and pond visitors (like the tree-frogs who come down to lie on the water for a drink, or mosquitoes who venture too close to the surface of the water, for too long). I’m going to get some more fish, now that I’ve seen this; I’ve watched lots of so-called experts who warned against so many things that appeared would work, and suggested so many things that really couldn’t work (I had to double check their facts as I don’t really know much about fish other than keeping hardy, cold-water fish alive in a small, outdoor setting, the benefit of which is that I don’t need to keep the glass immaculately clean because the algae helps create a more natural environment for all manner of life in there). Thank you for reiterating the principles of finding tank-mates for goldfish and explaining the facts and logic behind it all 🙂 xxxoooxxx ❤️
I currently have pictus cats, yo-yo loaches, otocinclus and a mystery snail, with my two fancy goldfish. I got the otocinclus before I saw this video. Started with four and currently at two otos. Never found the two missing otos, so possibly eaten. Thanks for this helpful video!
I have 4 otocinclus and a bristlenose pleco with my goldfish. My goldfish is so bulky that he can't swim that fast, and my otocinclus are SO fast. They cross the tank in the blink of an eye. I can't see him ever catching them. I also have a ton of plants for them to hide in, too, though. My pleco has never sucked on my goldfish, but he's really well fed. My goldfish used to nip my plants and rip them up until I started mixing veggies into his diet just FYI for people having the same problem. If you keep them well fed and satisfy their craving for veggies they won't terrorize your plants as bad.
I was not aware variatus & rosey barbs were tolerant of cooler waters. Great list brother, got to add this to one of my playlist. With the fancy, I was able to keep guppies. Mind you, I was a preteen novice when I did this, but they kept breeding & outlived the fancies. I also kept a betta with my comets till I had to expel this one grey comet that kept picking at it. Definitely not the best choice for a comet tank since those long fancy fins are kind like a matadors Cape daring them to charge.🤷🏾♂️ You live & you learn, you know?
there are a lot of cooler water fish, its kind of my own little hobby running unheated aquariums. right now i have a cherry barb, harlequin rasbora and white cloud tank and emperor tetra, black skirt tetra, and pencilfish in the other. if i let them go below 60 the emperors start getting listless, but have had them for years, throw some guppy grass in and they make babies and keep stocked up.
I have found that clownplecos do really well with goldfish. The fancy ones anyways. You have to balance the temp a bit more, but in between 70-80 seems to make them all fairly happy 🧡
Great video! :) Another species that seems to work really well in a goldfish tank (at least with single-tailed goldfish and wakins) is the siamese algae eater. They're very friendly tank mates with a "food response" that is similar to that of goldfish, so they don't get outcompeted at feeding time. Goldfish are also effective dither fish for the SAE's, making them feel more at ease. Other species my goldfish are currently kept with are panda garras, hoplo cats and some corydoras (large enough to be a safe combo). Very peaceful tank. 👌
@@Aqua_Gino well I heard that Chinese algae eaters are not safe to have with goldfish because they tend suck the slime coat even if you feed them separately. I believe petco sells them with goldfish. I don't know if there is a difference or not
@@brickosaurus2276 Oh I see. Yeah I would never trust a Chinese algae eater with peaceful/vulnerable fish like goldfish. The scientific name of the species you don't want is Gyrinocheilus aymonieri. If you compare it closely to a Crossocheilus species (the ones you want) you'll learn to spot the difference. 🙂
By the way, sometimes the Chinese algae eater is labeled as "Siamese". And there are species which look like the actual Siamese algae eaters but which are not. There are some articles on the internet which explain the difference nicely.
Nice list Cory, I've kept zebra danios with mine for a few years, definitely brought my goldfish out of their shells a bit, can't say I noticed much aggression from the danios towards the ranchus, worked well for me 👍
I had considered them as well. I Just wasn't sure how well they would work for a majority of people due to how fast they eat. But yes I believe danios are worth trying a swell.
Keep my Orandas in the pond with my White Clouds in the Summer without issues. Bring the Orandas in for the Winter but the White Clouds thrive out there.
To feel my bristlenoses (babies at the moment 5mths old), i have a skull ornament they hide in, so every second day i put a vegie wafer into the eye hole of the skull where the goldfish can't get into. When they get to big to hide in the skull i will have to come up with a new plan. I also put some sinking food into the bushy plant hoping they get some of that to.
Love this! Currently deciding between two setups for my 36 gallon bowfront. 1. 2 or 3 young angelfish, a snowball pleco and a few khuli loaches. 2. 2 Smaller Oranda goldfish and some hillstream loaches. Anyone wanna vote? 1 or 2?
WARNING!!! The very first fish tank I had (40L) with a small black Moor + a butterfly telescope + a bristlenose pleco I noticed the pleco wasn't getting enough food so I brought algae sinking pellets. A couple days after I started feeding the pellets I realised that my black Moor was eating them and overfeeding way too much. Soon after my black Moor got dropsy from overeating and died. Easy mistake for beginners just thought I'd put this out there. I rehomed the pleco.
Tankmate suggestion for the 800 goldfish tank... Danio danglia, Moustache Danio. BIG active peaceful schoolers (larger than giant danio). I think a big group of about 40 or 50 would look amazing in there. They're also very fast; no way a goldfish can catch them.
Rhodeus spp (cool water). - Its a cool looking, Barb like schooling fish. It gets a bit chunky so it would be hard for a Goldfish to swallow and it also has a very interesting breeding strategy, reminiscent of the shell dwellers.
I keep 3 hillstream loaches with 3 goldfish in a 30 gallon tank. I have them for 1 month now and I am wondering how can I feed them and what? Goldfish will not allow a algae wafer to exist over 2 minutes, they eat eveything!! Any advice?
I keep a goldfish with mollies, they are decent size so they don’t get eaten, peaceful and while they are tropical fish, they can go a little bit colder than most trivial fish.
I've had super great success with koi swordtails, with both fancy and very large comets. The swordtails grew from 6 to probably close to 100 over the summer, and voraciously attack food with the goldfish, which is fun to watch. The platy's population only went from 6 to about 9 over the summer. In the month I've brought the platy's inside to their own tank, they're populations at about 40 now, and some fry are free swimming with the adults. Not sure how the swordtail fry were so successful with the goldfish...
I had a 150 gallon tank with 2 angelfish, a single fantail goldfish to eat the snail population boom (he loved them), 6 Blue spotted sunfish (North American native), cory catfish, and a ton of platy/swordtail hybrids. Yeah, the platy babies would get eaten, but they always bred faster than they got predated.
I have Flying fox, zebra danios, white cloud minnows with my group of 4 shubunkin/2 koi and 2 small comets. In a 29 gallon for over the winter. They were usually in a turtle pond for the warmer seasons. Now I gotta build a secondary because my turtle has tasted blood. all my fish get along perfectly fine. Building a canopy for it, will probably make a video showing my winter-over stocked tank.
we have a park witha big pond in town here. there has to be about 200 huge gold fish just schooling around. take the children to feed the ducks and the fish. the city even got a big fountian to keep the pond ice free (mostly ice free) in the winter months
If you go on the goldfish subreddit, there's someone who posts there semi-frequently with an oranda they rescued that loves to be hand fed and actually gets upset when it isn't played with. Look up glocket's posts, they post videos and they're there BEST part of my day!
Adult white clouds are working with the fancy gold fish, if you have a lot of water change and good water flow, it works. 🙂 But they will eat them, if they are to small.
my plecois mildly terrified of the goldfish brood 😀 my goldfish, are very kind to even the tiny goldfish. As long as they’re well fed. I don’t know how they would be if people don’t feed them well, but otherwise they’re pretty friendly with each other. I would give anything to get a Hillstream loach. It’s a goal. Those tubby corys are darling lol.
The staff at a well known fancy Goldfish shop/importer (who grow them the size of softballs) recommends 80 degrees F for growing them big. I was surprised.
Thai Goldfish for sure, local shop by my house keeps it's stores tanks all 79 degrees. I had alot of swim bladder issues at 70-75 with them, I switched to 79 and swim bladder issues are way less frequent, they need the higher temps for digestion.
You say the names of the less common fish like those reticulated loaches so fast that most people won't be able to find them in their fish stores. You need to list them or link to a list of them.
on your laptop, as the video plays, the little time indicator bar moves across the bottom showing how much of the video has played. you can hover your mouse here and it will show each fish name per the section it is mentioned in.
Hey everyone! I have currently got a smaller tank with a couple of variatus platys and a few danios, as well as a couple of amano shrimp I rescued from a friends tank. In the near future I plan on upgrading to a 55 gallon (200L) tank of my dreams. I really want to begin that tank with 2 fancy goldfish (a black moor and a fantail) and was thinking about repeating my current set up of variatus platys and danios. Really glad to see the variatus platys are in this video, but I was just wondering on people’s thoughts on danios? Like the white clouds obviously they are a schooling fish and are pretty fast - so they would likely dodge being eaten in my opinion! But any reasons why I should/shouldn’t would be ace, thanks!
Cool! I've been looking for something like this for ever. I have a comet goldfish and he's about 8" (huge). And he tears up everything. Very hard to keep live plants in there with him and there was other fish in there but they all died off, and I'm looking for a friend for him. He lives with a regular pleco and they are good together but I wanted a swimmer for him. Definitely going to pick something from this list, thanks 👍
Q1.Can you feed freshwater copepods to fantail gold fish aside from their usual diet? Q2. Can you put angelfish with fantail goldfish? ... Kinda a beginner and need a some answers to help setup a tank for my relatives as a present.
I have a 150 gallon tank with 11 comet's and a common placo named sam (my little sister and her friends snuck out to a carnival and won a bunch of fish my dad wouldn't let her keep them and I live on my own Sam had the whole 150 gallon to himself for a year because I didn't know what I wanted to add to the tank but he loves his goldfish friends and the goldfish are now getting way bigger happier and healthier
And yes I do know it's not ideal to have 11 goldfish in a 150 but they were pushed on me or they would have been flushed (my family aren't animal people unfortunately) I do have plans to start up another tank soon I just want to make sure they'll have plenty of space to thrive
My Goldfish Pond has 9 fancys, 1 Golden Sucking Catfish, 1 common Brown Sucking Catfish, 6 Rosy barbs, 6 Glowlight Chilli Rosy Barbs, 6 Zebra Danios and they all get along great. :P I was considering chucking a pleco or 2 in there too. There's plenty of algae and biofilm to go around. Lol.
Hi I’ve got. 1 common GF, 2 comet GF, 3 fantails GF, 2 wood shrimp, 4 sunset plates, 5 S&P corries 5 albino corries 1 zebra snail, Temperature is at 23c with 2 heaters in a aqua one AR850 165lt tank. No problems with clouding and my nitrates at 0, @ph7. 2 goldfish at at 3” noise to tail. Working for me so far.
I had a male Bristlenose Pleco that definitely did NOT get along with goldfish (Sarasa Comets). He wasn't underfed and he wasn't sucking on their slime coat. He spent most of his time under a piece of driftwood, and whenever my goldfish (larger than himself) would get too close, he would dart out and chase them away. A short time later the goldfish would return and he would repeat the performance. They never did learn to avoid his hiding place. Eventually, it escalated to the point where he started actually attacking the goldfish and ripping off scales and I had to separate them. I later kept that same Bristlenose with a variety of small tropical fish (Zebra Danios, Cory Catfish, Neon Tetras, etc.) with no problems.
Due to tanks being merged, I have kept 2 fancy goldfish with 3 Cories, 1 f Platy, 1 f betta, 2 black neons, 1 danio, and 3 white clouds for months now in a 29 gallon tank, and all are happy.
yeahh sure the tropical fish and cold water fish are soooo hapoy to be stuck in everyone's extreme. just because they are alive syre means they are so happy in your overstocked little puddle..
Any suggestion for a 55 gallon that has 2 fancy Goldfish and 2 Dojo loaches - algae eater? I added mystery snails, but they will not live in there (I find empty shells), LFS thinks loaches ate them, live...ICK!
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I have been feeding Cobalt large cichlid sinking pellets for about a year now. My two have been very happy since the change. I have had people jump my butt because they say this food is horrible for goldfish. When I ask why, they cannot give me an answer backed up with scientific data. I cannot find any research data that would indicate that this food would be detrimental to my fin babies. What are your thoughts? Thank you.
Aquarium Co-Op Cory have ever raised Tripp’s can you make a video about their care and tank mates?
I just saw the video... they have a hillstream loach as a pleco... comments are turned off too
I think large danios, not giant are good mates. They are fast and hardy.
I have silver sharks red tailed sharks rainbow sharks and golden Rainbow sharks and a goldfish and a angelfish And the goldfishes old tank mate but my going to Sarah’s stay have babies so they are in the different tank
Hello. Don’t laugh … I’m a grown woman who has had a lifelong fear of fish. Sounds hilarious, I know. A flopping or dead fish creates pure terror. Watching and educating myself about goldfish is a self-imposed therapy for me and I appreciate your channel. Thank you!
I just wanted to say that your channel inspired me to get fish of my own......... and it was the best decision I’ve ever made😀😀😀
Me too! And here I am 2 years and three tanks later! Welcome to being broke!
@@shanecoffey7665 RIP YOUR BILLS
thats why i only have 1 tank ;00
I love reading comments like this!
@@shanecoffey7665 Definitely, I thought I spent a lot on my first planted tank ($150), but when I got to my third planted tank….hoo boy ($500)
Fish reduce stress/anxiety which is good for the heart and they are low in cholesterol which is good for heart health as well. 🐟
While I do not have a gold fish, I want to thank you for this video and sharing your experience and expertise! I would encourage those with fish to listen to Cory... his advice has saved me tons of money hahaha
I grew up with fish tanks in the 1980s because of my Dad and am getting back into it now.....just wanted to say aquarium coop is AMAZING!! Brings back memories and learning so much more😀😀
Honestly, goldfish are already so beautiful on there own, why do people push poor goldfish to to high temps, or other fish to to low, when you could just have a hill stream loach or two, and your goldfish, boom! Great looking tank!
kurt zingler Thats very true, it’s just important to recognize that you can have more than just a hill stream loach. Dojo loaches and plenty of other fish do better at a cooler temperature as well. You don’t have to push things to the limit and make things stressed in order to have additional fish in your tank
I’ve got golden dojo’s and a baby bristlenose with them
I agree... Wish i would have just kept it gold fish
kurt zingler why do people put goldfish and bettas in bowls with no filters or adequate space, and for bettas no heater, answer: people are idiots
Paige Hudgins I wouldn’t say they’re idiots. Just misinformed. It’s easy to do stuff like that when you see a lot of other people doing it
A big school of White Clouds would look great in the 800.
A big school of small schooling fish in a huge tank always make for some of the best spectacles in the whole World.
Finally! This should always be on top of the “Tankmates for Goldfish” algorithm.
It was at the top of mine
I have 3 comet goldfish (feeder rescues) with 9 golden white clouds, lots of plants. No problems, and they look great together. The colors blend nicely, contrast beautifully with the green plants. Fairly low maintenance, minimal water changes needed, probably because of all the plants, which my Goldie’s don’t bother with much, including lots of hanging roots from water lettuce. Very relaxing aquarium to sit and watch.
how many gallons. I got two comets, and I'm thinking about 100 gallons
@@processrauwill7922 my 2 gold fish are in a 5 gallon tank
@@braydenroberts7297 that’s definitely not enough lol
@@processrauwill7922 im getting a 10 gallon today i have a fancy gold fish and a comet
@@braydenroberts7297 make that a 20 probably
Best tank mates
1-10: Other goldfish
WOW So impressed...........
But, it depends on the type of goldfish, fancies with fancies, single tails, with single tails.
@@KuchiKopi179 but you can put double tail goldfish with single tail goldfish, I got a goldfish with big eyes and its double tail and another fish but idk what it is but its double tail
cool
@@crockdog9838 yh i have a fantail with comets it’s just as fast
I kept gold mystery snails & golden algae eaters in a small (100 gal) , planted and filtered pond with 3 to 4 fancy goldfish. I hope that they were nearly as happy as they made me. 🙂
Glad I found this video - just upgraded the filtration system on my 55g goldfish tank and want to add a bit more fish. Thanks!
That’s always a fun thing to do honestly, I just did the same with my 75 gallon…..
My outdoor pond goldfish love their new rosy red minnow friends. They play nice and I've seen absolutely no aggression.
Thanx Cory. Never knew you could keep so many different fish with goldfish. I was under the impression that pretty much they had to be kept alone because they were a colder water fish. Glad you cleared that up. 👍😎✌🍄
Love this! Been thinking about getting a hillstream loach or bristlenose for my goldfish tank for a while. I keep variatus platties (sunburst wag tails) with my 4 shubunkins in a planted 75 gallon at the moment and they've slowly expanded their population but most fry get eaten (as intended). It sounds like a hillstream loach or 2 is probably the way to go for me, although the blue eye lemon longfin bristlenose is really eye catching... almost like a gold colored koi or something.
I was about to but some otocinclus for my goldfish tank and I'm really glad I watched this video before I did. Thanks for saving me and my fish a lot of potential trouble, I love this channel so much!
I have three goldfish (two comets and an oranda). Their only current tank mate is a pleco. I love the idea of adding in a dojo loach! I’ll have to look into them some more.
From personal experience White Cloud minnows work so wonderful with goldfish. Mine are definitely too big to be eaten and its so cute watching them try to follow my fancy 😂💕
I feel like a rare case then!! My goldfish were feeder fish until we saved them and put them in an outdoor pond. Once the pond was at risk to freezing we put the fish with our cichlids cause we thought we would just try. And they love it!!! Haven’t had any issues and it’s been over a year! Some other tank mates are 2 clown loaches, 3 HUGE plecos, and a red tail blue loach!
Haha well if you put them in almost freezing water I can see why’d they prefer the tank
Just subscribed! I'm new in the fish hobby and loving it so far I started a channel and you inspired me!
I just found your channel , subbed and notified right away. My first ever fish went in my 40 gallon aquarium yesterday. Thems goldfish , 5 put in there.
Hoping you continue to post very informative videos .Thank you very very much. From an older guy up in Canada.
Upgrade the tank when they grow that's really too small
I love watching your videos. I have developed MTS from you and I'm loving it, also have tried my first plants ever thanks to your easy products and tutorials keep up the amazing work.
Thanks so much! I have been looking for tank members for my goldfish and this really helped
Great tank mates video and information 😎👍🏻
Thank you so much! I was hoping you would do a goldfish tankmates video.i have giant danios in my goldfish tank so also a great tankmate they are even breeding in my tank.
Troy Johnson same bro
Looking for a few friend to help keep my 12 year old common goldfish’ tank clean. This really helped!
Interesting tips. As always good with general guidelines and what to keep in mind.
I love your common sense approach!
Lovely Orandas behind you. I love the full round fins.
I have a question… that tank behind you is like my dream but I’ve had a 20 gallon and only had 2 at all times and cleaning was insane. I was cleaning it every week, if I remember correctly, or once a month but the waste would mess a lot with water levels. What is the best fish/fishes that actually help with maybe eating that waste. Or maybe I’m asking the question wrong.. How do you keep your water levels perfect all the time with all the waste from the fancies? Bristle nose plenco?? Also is having no gravel on the bottom easier for clean up? I think this channel is great thank you for the videos.. huge help!
There is nothing you can add to your tank to remove wastes unfortunately as all living beings produce their own waste too. That just means you either need to do multiple water changes a week or get a bigger tank so it takes longer for those wastes to build up. 🙂
Now I want a hillstream loach
I have 3😊
Thank you Cory you are the go to guys for knowledge!!!
Thanks for the nice videos all the time. I hope your back heals very quickly.
My go to guy for aquarium tips. Very knowledgeable fella
"a hotdog with fins".
I love that line to makes me laugh every time
I appreciate this video very very much! I'm adopting a Shubunkin that I've set up a 75 gallon for and I've been trying to figure out good tank mates for her that aren't just the pair of golden loaches she's already buddies with. The longfin rosy barbs sound to me like a great long term plan if the bio-load ends up being light enough to handle her, her buddies, and the snails I'm planning on adding in. I also considered the hillstream loaches, and it's really nice to finally hear someone say they can work with goldfish.
Awesome video man definitely gave me some great ideas for what is possible.
Thank you for this video! Great info!
Thank you. I been wanting to upgrade my tank and your video has been very informative. 😃 you answered every question I had
In Australia the Tandanus catfish is a great tankmate for goldfish, can go outside year round in temperate regions as well.
In my 65, I currently have a single ranchu, two medium dojo’s, and a small school of white clouds. This tank was originally just a grow out tank for three baby ranchu before they get moved out to my pond, but tragedy struck this summer and I lost all of my goldfish except the one ranchu when my city did something weird with the water supply. The poor lone ranchu was depressed until I moved in some buddies from my other tanks and now he is so happy derping around the tank with the other fish. Multiple water tests make me think there is heavy metal or something else that doesn’t come up on my tests. I just can’t do water changes during the summer now. 2020 happened, so my pond is drained until spring and this little ranchu is stuck in the house until then too.
I have some snails for my fish and they are very calming and have no aggression
Fish co-op really amazing .
I have two gold fish and along with them are 4 mollies 8 guppys 2 sword tail and 2 tank cleaners
I like your funny words magic man
Reticulated hillstream loaches ROCK!
This goldfish tank has made you a personal hero of mine. The variatus platy being cold hardy was something i did not know. On a related note Ive got a gold dojo loach i put in my 120 about a week ago, (plan on adding another pair soon) last few days he has taken to swimming into the current from the HOB and then abruptly doing what I can only describe as playing possum. He will float stiff as a board for a few moments, then take off. I do not believe it is a swim bladder issue, he can stay on the bottom whenever he wants, but coming home to see your loach "stuck" to the filter does nothing good for my blood pressure. Otherwise he is very active, burrowing in the gravel occasionally, absolutely destroys his food. Only tank mates are goldies and a bristlenose I haven't seen since I put in a month ago. Anybody else had this behavior? Looked about online and answers were all over the place.
Thank you for this video! I have a 75 gallon tank I'm setting up with an Oranda and a Ryukin fancy. my plan is to have pearlweed and S. Repens carpet the bottom as a buffer between the open water and the bottom as well as a cavernous rocky area to the side with space for the smaller fish to enter/exit but not the goldfish, I want to get a couple dojo loaches to live down there and some white clouds or variatus platys
I added feeder fish, most were eaten but not all of them. Some have now grown to pretty much to full size and make a lovely addition to my small ponds (including some long-tailed ones). I added four rosy barbs to the pond that has the larger fish, and they all seem to get along just fine 🙂. I’ve got an array of goldfish, too, including plain old comets, blackmoors, telescopics, orandas, subunkins, pearl scales, bubble eyes, celestial eyes, one angel tail and one ryukin. I inherited most of the goldfish when we moved here, a couple of years ago, but I’ve found a nice balance of varieties of gold- and other fish, snails, vegetation, algae and pond visitors (like the tree-frogs who come down to lie on the water for a drink, or mosquitoes who venture too close to the surface of the water, for too long). I’m going to get some more fish, now that I’ve seen this; I’ve watched lots of so-called experts who warned against so many things that appeared would work, and suggested so many things that really couldn’t work (I had to double check their facts as I don’t really know much about fish other than keeping hardy, cold-water fish alive in a small, outdoor setting, the benefit of which is that I don’t need to keep the glass immaculately clean because the algae helps create a more natural environment for all manner of life in there). Thank you for reiterating the principles of finding tank-mates for goldfish and explaining the facts and logic behind it all 🙂 xxxoooxxx ❤️
I currently have pictus cats, yo-yo loaches, otocinclus and a mystery snail, with my two fancy goldfish. I got the otocinclus before I saw this video. Started with four and currently at two otos. Never found the two missing otos, so possibly eaten. Thanks for this helpful video!
I’m a beginner, thank you so much for this! ❤️
Thanks Cory for the tips. Have never mixed other fish with my goldfish.
I have 4 otocinclus and a bristlenose pleco with my goldfish. My goldfish is so bulky that he can't swim that fast, and my otocinclus are SO fast. They cross the tank in the blink of an eye. I can't see him ever catching them. I also have a ton of plants for them to hide in, too, though. My pleco has never sucked on my goldfish, but he's really well fed. My goldfish used to nip my plants and rip them up until I started mixing veggies into his diet just FYI for people having the same problem. If you keep them well fed and satisfy their craving for veggies they won't terrorize your plants as bad.
fathead minnows, do really good with comets. cheap (feeders) and are very active.
FINALLY. Someone else that keep those. When we do our pond we're running shubunkin and white minnow. Will also be growing koi to sell at size.
I have those in my pond in Denver with my goldfish and koi. They made it through the winter here without any extra heat.
I was not aware variatus & rosey barbs were tolerant of cooler waters. Great list brother, got to add this to one of my playlist.
With the fancy, I was able to keep guppies. Mind you, I was a preteen novice when I did this, but they kept breeding & outlived the fancies. I also kept a betta with my comets till I had to expel this one grey comet that kept picking at it. Definitely not the best choice for a comet tank since those long fancy fins are kind like a matadors Cape daring them to charge.🤷🏾♂️
You live & you learn, you know?
deadfred821 I got them recently the goldfish seem to be scared always hiding, Corey any advice?
@@funguscordyceps6150 Got what recently; guppies or bettas?
there are a lot of cooler water fish, its kind of my own little hobby running unheated aquariums. right now i have a cherry barb, harlequin rasbora and white cloud tank and emperor tetra, black skirt tetra, and pencilfish in the other. if i let them go below 60 the emperors start getting listless, but have had them for years, throw some guppy grass in and they make babies and keep stocked up.
@@Gee-xb7rt you should make a video, would love to see it
@@nivalis3904 haha, they are a mess 1/2 the time. i like low maintenance a little too much.
I have found that clownplecos do really well with goldfish. The fancy ones anyways. You have to balance the temp a bit more, but in between 70-80 seems to make them all fairly happy 🧡
Great video! :) Another species that seems to work really well in a goldfish tank (at least with single-tailed goldfish and wakins) is the siamese algae eater. They're very friendly tank mates with a "food response" that is similar to that of goldfish, so they don't get outcompeted at feeding time. Goldfish are also effective dither fish for the SAE's, making them feel more at ease. Other species my goldfish are currently kept with are panda garras, hoplo cats and some corydoras (large enough to be a safe combo). Very peaceful tank. 👌
Are those the same as Chinese algae eaters?
@@brickosaurus2276 Which ones specifically do you mean? :)
@@Aqua_Gino well I heard that Chinese algae eaters are not safe to have with goldfish because they tend suck the slime coat even if you feed them separately. I believe petco sells them with goldfish. I don't know if there is a difference or not
@@brickosaurus2276 Oh I see. Yeah I would never trust a Chinese algae eater with peaceful/vulnerable fish like goldfish. The scientific name of the species you don't want is Gyrinocheilus aymonieri. If you compare it closely to a Crossocheilus species (the ones you want) you'll learn to spot the difference. 🙂
By the way, sometimes the Chinese algae eater is labeled as "Siamese". And there are species which look like the actual Siamese algae eaters but which are not. There are some articles on the internet which explain the difference nicely.
I swear you look like someone I knew in the Army. Birdwell 82nd ABN 😂.
Great vids. Keep em going.
I love my dojos and hi fin banded loaches
Nice list Cory, I've kept zebra danios with mine for a few years, definitely brought my goldfish out of their shells a bit, can't say I noticed much aggression from the danios towards the ranchus, worked well for me 👍
I had considered them as well. I Just wasn't sure how well they would work for a majority of people due to how fast they eat. But yes I believe danios are worth trying a swell.
Not so much zebra danios as my larger ones ate them. Had the giant danios with mine for about 3 years no problem.
Keep my Orandas in the pond with my White Clouds in the Summer without issues. Bring the Orandas in for the Winter but the White Clouds thrive out there.
how’s ur winter temps?
To feel my bristlenoses (babies at the moment 5mths old), i have a skull ornament they hide in, so every second day i put a vegie wafer into the eye hole of the skull where the goldfish can't get into. When they get to big to hide in the skull i will have to come up with a new plan.
I also put some sinking food into the bushy plant hoping they get some of that to.
I keep my lion head ranchu with some rainbow fish they do very well together in my personal experience so far
What are you’re thoughts about a Fancy goldfish and Rainbow fish aquarium?
Love this! Currently deciding between two setups for my 36 gallon bowfront.
1. 2 or 3 young angelfish, a snowball pleco and a few khuli loaches.
2. 2 Smaller Oranda goldfish and some hillstream loaches.
Anyone wanna vote? 1 or 2?
WARNING!!! The very first fish tank I had (40L) with a small black Moor + a butterfly telescope + a bristlenose pleco
I noticed the pleco wasn't getting enough food so I brought algae sinking pellets.
A couple days after I started feeding the pellets I realised that my black Moor was eating them and overfeeding way too much. Soon after my black Moor got dropsy from overeating and died. Easy mistake for beginners just thought I'd put this out there. I rehomed the pleco.
Tankmate suggestion for the 800 goldfish tank... Danio danglia, Moustache Danio.
BIG active peaceful schoolers (larger than giant danio).
I think a big group of about 40 or 50 would look amazing in there.
They're also very fast; no way a goldfish can catch them.
Rhodeus spp (cool water). - Its a cool looking, Barb like schooling fish. It gets a bit chunky so it would be hard for a Goldfish to swallow and it also has a very interesting breeding strategy, reminiscent of the shell dwellers.
I keep 3 hillstream loaches with 3 goldfish in a 30 gallon tank. I have them for 1 month now and I am wondering how can I feed them and what? Goldfish will not allow a algae wafer to exist over 2 minutes, they eat eveything!! Any advice?
I keep a goldfish with mollies, they are decent size so they don’t get eaten, peaceful and while they are tropical fish, they can go a little bit colder than most trivial fish.
I've had super great success with koi swordtails, with both fancy and very large comets. The swordtails grew from 6 to probably close to 100 over the summer, and voraciously attack food with the goldfish, which is fun to watch. The platy's population only went from 6 to about 9 over the summer. In the month I've brought the platy's inside to their own tank, they're populations at about 40 now, and some fry are free swimming with the adults. Not sure how the swordtail fry were so successful with the goldfish...
I had a 150 gallon tank with 2 angelfish, a single fantail goldfish to eat the snail population boom (he loved them), 6 Blue spotted sunfish (North American native), cory catfish, and a ton of platy/swordtail hybrids. Yeah, the platy babies would get eaten, but they always bred faster than they got predated.
Haplo catfish sometimes scream when you catch them they press air trough their gills
its weird to hear them scream like they do
I have Flying fox, zebra danios, white cloud minnows with my group of 4 shubunkin/2 koi and 2 small comets.
In a 29 gallon for over the winter.
They were usually in a turtle pond for the warmer seasons. Now I gotta build a secondary because my turtle has tasted blood.
all my fish get along perfectly fine.
Building a canopy for it, will probably make a video showing my winter-over stocked tank.
we have a park witha big pond in town here. there has to be about 200 huge gold fish just schooling around. take the children to feed the ducks and the fish. the city even got a big fountian to keep the pond ice free (mostly ice free) in the winter months
Thanks, very interesting.
I would *love* to get some oranda and lion head gold fish someday. They just look so fun and full of personality 😊
If you go on the goldfish subreddit, there's someone who posts there semi-frequently with an oranda they rescued that loves to be hand fed and actually gets upset when it isn't played with. Look up glocket's posts, they post videos and they're there BEST part of my day!
Adult white clouds are working with the fancy gold fish, if you have a lot of water change and good water flow, it works. 🙂 But they will eat them, if they are to small.
my plecois mildly terrified of the goldfish brood 😀 my goldfish, are very kind to even the tiny goldfish. As long as they’re well fed. I don’t know how they would be if people don’t feed them well, but otherwise they’re pretty friendly with each other. I would give anything to get a Hillstream loach. It’s a goal. Those tubby corys are darling lol.
The staff at a well known fancy Goldfish shop/importer (who grow them the size of softballs) recommends 80 degrees F for growing them big. I was surprised.
Thai Goldfish for sure, local shop by my house keeps it's stores tanks all 79 degrees. I had alot of swim bladder issues at 70-75 with them, I switched to 79 and swim bladder issues are way less frequent, they need the higher temps for digestion.
I used to keep rosey barbs. Used to bite my fingers when cleaning
Very help full❤️
You say the names of the less common fish like those reticulated loaches so fast that most people won't be able to find them in their fish stores. You need to list them or link to a list of them.
on your laptop, as the video plays, the little time indicator bar moves across the bottom showing how much of the video has played. you can hover your mouse here and it will show each fish name per the section it is mentioned in.
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Nice sharing my friend...❤️
Beautiful fish
Hey Cory! Would love to see a follow up to this video
Hey everyone! I have currently got a smaller tank with a couple of variatus platys and a few danios, as well as a couple of amano shrimp I rescued from a friends tank. In the near future I plan on upgrading to a 55 gallon (200L) tank of my dreams. I really want to begin that tank with 2 fancy goldfish (a black moor and a fantail) and was thinking about repeating my current set up of variatus platys and danios. Really glad to see the variatus platys are in this video, but I was just wondering on people’s thoughts on danios? Like the white clouds obviously they are a schooling fish and are pretty fast - so they would likely dodge being eaten in my opinion! But any reasons why I should/shouldn’t would be ace, thanks!
Cool! I've been looking for something like this for ever. I have a comet goldfish and he's about 8" (huge). And he tears up everything. Very hard to keep live plants in there with him and there was other fish in there but they all died off, and I'm looking for a friend for him. He lives with a regular pleco and they are good together but I wanted a swimmer for him. Definitely going to pick something from this list, thanks 👍
Q1.Can you feed freshwater copepods to fantail gold fish aside from their usual diet?
Q2. Can you put angelfish with fantail goldfish?
... Kinda a beginner and need a some answers to help setup a tank for my relatives as a present.
I have a 150 gallon tank with 11 comet's and a common placo named sam (my little sister and her friends snuck out to a carnival and won a bunch of fish my dad wouldn't let her keep them and I live on my own Sam had the whole 150 gallon to himself for a year because I didn't know what I wanted to add to the tank but he loves his goldfish friends and the goldfish are now getting way bigger happier and healthier
And yes I do know it's not ideal to have 11 goldfish in a 150 but they were pushed on me or they would have been flushed (my family aren't animal people unfortunately) I do have plans to start up another tank soon I just want to make sure they'll have plenty of space to thrive
My Goldfish Pond has 9 fancys, 1 Golden Sucking Catfish, 1 common Brown Sucking Catfish, 6 Rosy barbs, 6 Glowlight Chilli Rosy Barbs, 6 Zebra Danios and they all get along great. :P
I was considering chucking a pleco or 2 in there too. There's plenty of algae and biofilm to go around. Lol.
Hi I’ve got.
1 common GF,
2 comet GF,
3 fantails GF,
2 wood shrimp,
4 sunset plates,
5 S&P corries
5 albino corries
1 zebra snail,
Temperature is at 23c with 2 heaters in a aqua one AR850 165lt tank. No problems with clouding and my nitrates at 0, @ph7. 2 goldfish at at 3” noise to tail. Working for me so far.
I had a male Bristlenose Pleco that definitely did NOT get along with goldfish (Sarasa Comets). He wasn't underfed and he wasn't sucking on their slime coat. He spent most of his time under a piece of driftwood, and whenever my goldfish (larger than himself) would get too close, he would dart out and chase them away. A short time later the goldfish would return and he would repeat the performance. They never did learn to avoid his hiding place. Eventually, it escalated to the point where he started actually attacking the goldfish and ripping off scales and I had to separate them. I later kept that same Bristlenose with a variety of small tropical fish (Zebra Danios, Cory Catfish, Neon Tetras, etc.) with no problems.
Plecos are tropical, their temp needs don't match a goldfish at all.
Due to tanks being merged, I have kept 2 fancy goldfish with 3 Cories, 1 f Platy, 1 f betta, 2 black neons, 1 danio, and 3 white clouds for months now in a 29 gallon tank, and all are happy.
yeahh sure the tropical fish and cold water fish are soooo hapoy to be stuck in everyone's extreme.
just because they are alive syre means they are so happy in your overstocked little puddle..
Just about everything I knew about goldfish is wrong. Thanks for opening my eyes!
Mine have some mystery snails and whiteclouds with them. So far so good
Only think Ive put with my goldfish was a pleco & applesnails. The applesnails got huge!!
Great list my dude!
I have been running pictus catfish with a common gold fish for a while now at about 74 degrees. All are very happy in a 40 gal.
So something like a Striped Raphael Catfish would be a good match?
I didn't even know a rubberlip pleco was a thing! I am definitely one of those who is freaked out by bristlenoses... 😬
Rachel Straughn-Navarro I am too lol
Any suggestion for a 55 gallon that has 2 fancy Goldfish and 2 Dojo loaches - algae eater? I added mystery snails, but they will not live in there (I find empty shells), LFS thinks loaches ate them, live...ICK!