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Question

What kind of fish can you put in with goldfish (without them eating eachother)

I am so far thinking
Placostomuses
Betta (either A male or A female)
Tri-color or Irridecent sharks.

Anything to add?

Answer 1

Plecos should not be housed with goldfish. Plecos are from south america and need heaters, goldfish need cooler water temps because they need more dissolved oxygen. Colder water holds more dissolved oxygen then what warmer water does. Plecos need alot of green algae, aswell as supplementation with algae wafers, cucumbers, zuccini, romaine lettuce, shrimp pellets, broccoli, driftwood or bogwood for fiber and they develop a taste for the slimecoat on goldfish and will KILL goldfish. It has happened in the large indoor pond at the place i work at. Like goldfish, plecos excrete ALOT off ammonia.

Bettas, are tropical fish needing warmer water then what goldfish need. Bettas CANNOT handle the amount of ammonia goldfish excrete. Bettas are prone to fin rot and dropsy because of poor water quality. Bettas are carnivores and have different dietary needs then what goldfish do. Goldfish also get big enough to eat small fish such as female bettas.

Tri-color sharks are from the cyprinid family same with goldfish. They are a type of minnow. However, they need a heated tank and need to be in groups of 3-5 because they are a schooling fish. THey also grow to be 13 inches and need 70 gallons PER fish. They are skittish fish and it isnt uncommon for one to get startled and bust through a tank when it gets bigger.

Irridescent sharks GROW TO BE 4 FT LONG and are not suitable aquarium fish. They are a migrating catfish and need to be in groups also, they also will SWALLOW anything that they think they can. They too need heaters since they are warmwater tropicals.

GOLDFISH CAN ONLY BE HOUSED WITH GOLDFISH.
The rule for baby-juvenile fancy goldfish is 10 gallons PER fish. (ryukins, moors, orandas, fantails, ect.)
For baby-juvenile long bodied goldfish, its 20 gallons PER fish. (comets, commons, shubunkins) Adults need atleast 50 gallons PER fish. They need ALOT of filtration because they excrete so much ammonia aswell as regular partial waterchanges. THey grow to be 12-14 inches and will swallow smaller fish.

That being said, people have gotten away with house weather loaches and white cloud mountain minnows with goldfish. However the white clouds will most certainly become food as the goldfish grows and the people that have housed these fish with goldfish had large tanks and took EXCELLENT care of the fish. They did weekly partial waterchanges and fed once a day and tested their water and were awesome fish keepers. If only more people were like them.

Answer 2

no betas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! your poor goldfish will never rest and have chunks missing out of their fins. the only fish i know of that can survive with a beta, or a gar,or an eel is a neon racer. i dont know their tech.name, but they always run like hell. and ps shark is safe.but the catfish is way cool (suckerpluficos um you know).
as an added advantage, you'll have less tank maintenance.
goldfish are funny, buy them from a good store and keep them seperate from expensive fish a while. they are plentiful and dont exactly get the best care in the world of fish marketing. they can be sick and kill all of your fish.
once my bros and i won some fish at a carnival(goldfish). we put them in with about 14 fish, some of them at a starting price of $40+ not to mention the yrs of having them as pets. within 1 week, all but my youngest brothers fish(speedy neon racer) was dead including the goldfish.
that fish(speedy) swam on his side for months. she as we found out, also survived the mistake of placing a gar in the tank. she even survived the eel for awhile.
that poor fish lived about 8 yrs or longer.

Answer 3

Goldfish is best kept to a single variety. You do not mixed even different types of goldfish in a same tank.

Answer 4

depends on the size of the goldfish. If its a small goldfish get a guppy.

Answer 5

I wouldn't add sharks. Although they may be labeled non-aggressive, it doesn't take much for them to become so. Otherwise, you have the general idea.

You could also add guppies - either male or female or both.

(Just don't do it if you get a male Betta. Bettas confuses guppies for their own species, and they will kill them. I tell you from personal experience!)

Answer 6

how big is your tank?

I'm asking as pleco's get over 1 foot long.

rather just keep goldfish with other goldfish, it's safer.

Answer 7

Guppy

Answer 8

go with the gold fish and the Placostomuses

Answer 9

well I know you can't put a beta I have some of those and they can't be put with other fish they will kill them hince their nickname (fighting fish)