Will This Work?

[balapickerel]

i have two goldfish, one i s 4" and the other is 3", i also have six guppies in a seperate tank, so i was wondering, the guppy tanks is too small and has no filter so i have been doing daily water changes(too much trouble while keeping up with school) and the goldfish tank has lots of extra room, the guppies were bought from a friend who has always kept them in unheated water, so i do the same, and i was wondering if my guppies would be able to go in the same tank as my goldfish?

please advise me on this situation, if it works my guppies will be in a much nicer home, and i don't want to get rid of my goldfish so thats not an option

 

[bae1994]

what size tank are the golfish in

 

[helterskelter]

The problem is goldfish are very greedy fish and out compete most fish for food.

So guppies will find it difficult to find enough food with out having to resort to over feeding.

Goldfish also tolerate poor water quality better then guppies, so any water issues you may find the goldfish happy still but the guppies suffering.

 

[balapickerel]

they are in a 100litre tank, that, and i'm lucky to have found out that one day, while feeding my fish i accidentaly gave guppy food to my goldfish, they wouldn't go near it so i thing there won't be a food issue

 

[Shyartist]

they are in a 100litre tank, that, and i'm lucky to have found out that one day, while feeding my fish i accidentaly gave guppy food to my goldfish, they wouldn't go near it so i thing there won't be a food issue

Gold fish are very oportunistic feeders, they may have just not seen the food, but they WILL out compete the guppies for food and if your guppies are small enough, they will become the food. Also Goldfish produce much more waste that guppies do, I would not put them together.

 

[balapickerel]

in that case, any suggestions n what to do with my goldfish

 

[Truck]

are they fancies? if so buy a 50 gallon tank (long) and put them in their with a massive external canister, if theyre normal goldfish find a pond and put them in when it gets a bit warmer, but acclimatize slowly!!!

 

[balapickerel]

they are just feeder goldfish that i was using to cycle my tank, but i have grown attached to them and they are so beautiful.

as for putting them in a pond, unless i make a pond in my back yard that illegal and cruel to the other species in the pond

 

[Truck]

they are just feeder goldfish that i was using to cycle my tank, but i have grown attached to them and they are so beautiful.

as for putting them in a pond, unless i make a pond in my back yard that illegal and cruel to the other species in the pond

i mean find a friend with a pond, not a native pond lol

 

[OldMan47]

Feeder goldfish are usually what are called comet goldfish. They will get to well over a foot long after a short time. They need a tank much larger than 100 litres for 2 of them. That tank is about big enough for 1 comet goldfish. Goldfish are real pigs about feeding so, as others have already said, they will out-compete the guppies for food. One of the hazards of using goldfish, or any other fish that is not part of your permanent stock, for cycling is that you have no place to put them after the cycle is complete. The fish probably deserve a chance to live a normal life which means finding someone who needs some stock for a pond and giving the fish away.

 

[balapickerel]

really?!? i didn't know that they could grow that long i planned on returning them to the store when i was done but the store was keeping hundreds of them in a 4 gallon tank and i couldn't return them to that style of living after they had been in a tank the size of mine for two months, as for giving them to a friend, only one my my friends has a fishtank and they don't want to get any non-tropical fish

 

[HCpetraitis]

I had 2 feeder goldfish that I got as a kid and they grew to be about 16 inches! I had to sell them because they couldn't fit in the tank anymore!

 

[balapickerel]

how long did it take them to grow that big?

 

[soybean]

I started out with two feeder comets and got very attached to them. After learning more about their requirements they ended up in a 40Gallon tank and gave me hundreds of fry. But in the end I could see that no tank was ever really going to be 'big enough' - they needed a proper life. They are now in a family friend's goldfish pond, along with all their fry, and have doubled in size in less than a year. Happy fish!

As for keeping them with guppies.... no, I don't think it's a good idea. They have different requirements. Goldfish WILL eat their food. Goldfish will try to eat anything that fits in their mouths.

Are you really fond of the guppies? You could always take them back to a store, most places will take them from people (maybe not chain stores). All fish need a filter, really, however often you do water changes. At least try and get them one of those.