Plants Suitable For Goldfish

[swomp]

Can anyone suggest any plants suitable for Goldfish? They're two standard goldfish in a 60L tank?

Thanks

 

[Carlovel1]

Plastic/silk plants

 

[fluttermoth]

Plastic/silk plants

Aww, and deprive of them of their salad ration?! You meany

Elodia works quite well, although they will eat it, it's cheap to replace. Or that good old standby, Java fern; grows in any conditions and apparently tastes bitter, so is safe from being eaten (by most fish anyway).

 

[the biffster]

i would go for plastic as
well i used to put live plants
in with my gold fish but it was costing
me about a fiver a month in cabomba
elodea and java moss they have salad
for four or five weeks then i need to
put more in

 

[OldMan47]

For plant decoration in the tank, plastic or silk plants would work well with goldfish. As a treat for the fish, a nice big serving of duckweed would satisfy their hunger for days before it would be gone. Goldfish really like their greens so it is a good idea to give them some fresh ones to eat. I keep rainbow cichlids that have much the same love of greenery. I cannot keep any plants alive in their tank but will often pick up a big bag of duckweed at a local club auction and take it home to them as a treat. I have seen them clean a full thick layer of duckweed off of a 6 foot long tank in less than 2 weeks, and they are far smaller fish than goldfish at only 4 to 5 inches when full grown. Adult goldfish can go well over a foot long.

 

[dipsydoodlenoodle]

I've tried Elodea (but I found it was quite messy); and the fish did eat it after a while.

I have fountain plants (goldfish proof), Anubias apparently are goldfish proof although I haven't tried it. I've had twisted Vallis; it didn't do well in the cold water, and I've got amazon swords; they take a bit of it every now and again but they generally leave it alone (they have done better in the cold water than my warm water tank).

The trouble with goldfish is that they'll uproot the plants (I use lots of plant weights) but they'll get in and still move them around making the tank look messy; I even wedged a plant in the very back corner where no one can get to buried under an ornament; the ornament has been moved and the last plant uprooted lol. I gave up trying to put them back a long time ago.

 

[Jenste]

by two standard goldfish - - do you mean "commons" - single tailed or fancies which have a double tail.

and your tank is 60 liters - this is just about 15-16 gallons. this is too small for even one fancy.


fancies - - 20 gallons for 1, +10 gallons for each additional fancy.
commons - 30+ gallons for one. 50+ gallons for 2.... but they are really best as pond fish because they grow huge.

if you are thinking, well mine are small so they are ok -they are small because they are young.

you may want to think about upgrading your tank in the near future...and then loading it with live plants for them to munch on like previously mentioned

 

[OldMan47]

Fancy goldfish can be almost anything, as Jenste has implied. I made the assumption that you knew the minimum tank size for your fish although the standard that we live by says the first goldfish, type not specified, takes 20 gallons and each added one takes about 10 gallons. That would mean 30 gallons, about 115 litres, for a simple pair of comet goldfish. If you are rearing common goldfish to a large number, please be aware that you are well outside the experience of most of us here. We are mostly tropical fish fanciers and don't know as much as perhaps we should about goldfish.