I recently bought 2 ghostshrimp, 3 common goldfish http://species.fishindex.com/photo_3191carassius_auratus_auratus_goldfish.html, and a shubunkin http://www.shubunkin.de/images/shubunkin10.jpg, and i was just wondering if these are compatible. The sales person at the store said they were, but after 2 hours, one common goldfish was dead and a ghost shrimp was missing. help!
it is a nine gallon tank!
Tagged Common, Ghost, ghost shrimp, ghostshrimp, goldfish, images, person, photo, sales person, shrimp, shubunkin, store
This is a video of my 8 inch rb piranha eating a goldfish alive. It’s supposed to be a companion of my first piranha, but it unfortunately died of fungus a week after buying this guy… Irony. i normally feed it shrimp and frozen pinkies, but occasionally feed it live food. enjoy the vid 
Video Rating: 3 / 5
i have 5 tiger barbs, 1 small goldfish, 5 ghost shrimp, an upside down catfish, and a fancy guppy. I saw and eel at the pet store that was said to only grow to 6 inches long and it didn’t bother any of the fish in the tank with it. While the name escapes me I know it is light tan with a forward facing mouth. Would it be o.k. to add this to my community tank, or will it try to eat my lovable ghost shrimp. I don’t want them to die, nor my other fish
i saw someone ask this, and i TOO have a tub of goldfish flakes im not using… Could i possibly feed these goldfish flakes to my tropical fish? Neon tetras, Guppies, Mollies, swordtails, platies, etc.
Now, sure the PICTURE says what fish… but both are omnivore fish. Am i right?
Also, the back packaging pretty much says the same as the tropical fish food flakes… Fish meal, some other shrimp, etc…
So… can it work as an alternative?
thanks
(7+ years of tropical, freshwater fish keeping)
3+ Special breeding (my best accomplishment was mixing mollies with platies, and swordtails with mollies… Yes…)
Tagged goldfish, goldfish flakes, neon, tropical fish
First a bit of background about myself, I’m quite experienced with owning freshwater fish.
I currently own tanks with guppies, red-tail sharks, mollies, gouramis, mbunas, catfishes, platies, shrimps, clown/kuhli/yoyo loches, etc. And i think i’m doing really well with it.
However, i have never owned a Betta, or a Goldfish, though i have an idea of how to treat them.
But I have never owned a mini bowl tank. Unfortunatley, i have received a “betta bowl” for xMas, that looks similar to this in terms of size:
http://www.altavistamall.com/psproducts/ACU07001.jpg
Given that I will make use of it, probably putting my first Betta in…
~~~First (set of) question:~~~
How does it really work?
As in, would you even cycle that?
Would you bother putting gravel in it, i’m planning to have horn wort in it, which doesn’t necessary need gravel.
How do you do water change? I don’t think vacuum cleaner is an option. It’s so small too, wouln’d pouring water in and out so stress the fish?
And given how small the bowl is, how often do you change the water?
My room is quite cold in winter, maybe 10-15 celcius? You can’t put a heater in that thing.
Right.. i really dont’ get how those stores can have maintain those cups of bettas…
~~~ Second (set of ) questions: ~~~
Please don’t kill me, but on the box, it says don’t get mistaken by the name, thought it’s called “Betta Bowl”, you can put a golfish in.
Now i’m pretty surprised, i thought Goldfish needs BIG tank for how messy they are. So I think it’s lying.
But in case i’m wrong, do you know any kind of GOldfish that can be happy in that bowl?
THanks!
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