cynic
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The wife and i have reached the point where we need a decent change to our tank, lot of the stock has passed from age and we have been holding off replacing them as the wife and i have wanted bigger feature fish.
We were restricted by our original choice of fish, one of those being a red-tailed shark, he passed recently at around 8 years old. That has released us from being careful of 'Bob' not taking to the new guys. He was a good 6 inches long and a wonderful blue grey. Much as the fish has its temper tantrums the tail is a superb tank health indicator.
Now Bob free the wife has always wanted to return to gold fish, at 400l and 5ft long i think its perfectly capable of 4, even 5fish. Commons probably, have some plants and a medium sand base at the moment, a media change is on the cards as well as the plants etc.
What kind of thing will suit the goldies going forward and anything to be aware of, they will have to share for a while with some Amano shrimp and some harlequin rasbora, they arrived a little after Bob so are in their later years. Im thinking the goldfish will grow into the tank as the tankmates go i can focus the tank on the goldfish.
We were restricted by our original choice of fish, one of those being a red-tailed shark, he passed recently at around 8 years old. That has released us from being careful of 'Bob' not taking to the new guys. He was a good 6 inches long and a wonderful blue grey. Much as the fish has its temper tantrums the tail is a superb tank health indicator.
Now Bob free the wife has always wanted to return to gold fish, at 400l and 5ft long i think its perfectly capable of 4, even 5fish. Commons probably, have some plants and a medium sand base at the moment, a media change is on the cards as well as the plants etc.
What kind of thing will suit the goldies going forward and anything to be aware of, they will have to share for a while with some Amano shrimp and some harlequin rasbora, they arrived a little after Bob so are in their later years. Im thinking the goldfish will grow into the tank as the tankmates go i can focus the tank on the goldfish.