i have an african lungfish, will it hurt to put feeder goldfish in the tank?

Answer 1

It will hurt the goldfish when they get eaten :)

Frankly, I wouldn't put a feeder goldfish from a petstore anywhere near my fish. Those feeder fish are full of parasites and diseases and just aren't healthy. However, if you can find them from a reputable source, go for it. Tastey snake for your lungfish.

If you want to breed some fish for your lung fish to eat, to mollies or guppies.

Answer 2

There are not a lot of people that have an African Lungfish. They are great!! I love mine. I feed her goldfish. I have not had a problem with any diseases or parasites, and I have had her for over 3 years. The pet store I go to is pretty careful with their feeder fish. And I have found that the species is a pretty hardy fish. I have gone through some pretty tough stuff with my 100 gal. tank, some of the problems killed the 2 other fish in the tank, but not her. She adapted to just about everything. She may not have liked it, but she survived it! Bad Algae, Green Water, hi levels of nitrites, nitrates and ammonia. They grow pretty large you know..mine is in a 100 gal tank and is over 3 ft. long!!

Answer 3

well, the lungfish will eat the feeders so i would recommend you buy some guppies or mollies and breed them yourself and then feed them to your lungfish since the feeders from most stores are usually packed together in a small tank and is a good target for diseases.

Answer 4

the lungfish will eat the goldfish if he is big enough. It is possible the lungfish may choke or get a disease from the feeders too, so it is kinda "feeders at your own risk"

Answer 5

nicely, I honestly have 4 goldfish in a very small tank good now via a leakage interior the one hundred gal. yet I honestly have my carnival fish from eleven years in the past nevertheless alive, and he or she's very almost 9 inches long. Goldfish advance at as quickly as, and are magnificent pets. yet the way it says that it is been sitting for 4 days, it is wonderful. you will desire to've put in in an hour previously. Goldfish are quite hardy animals and would face up to assorted harsh situations, however the faucet contitioner is okay if it sits for minutes even. i've got been preserving and breeding goldfish for 14 years and that i'm attentive to this, Goldfish can stay in harsh water. chilly water, heat water, something. And Carnival Goldfish DONT DIE.

Answer 6

Mm lungfish.... Cute things... but I prefer bichirs :D

Here's my pose on feeders for them.

They need meat in their diets, I cant deny this.. they have trouble accepting staple food. In my experience they enjoy frozen blood worms and shrimp pellets but thats hardly enough variety in their diet. Goldfish in my oppinion are like the red pill. Its gonna show you how far this rabbit hole gets, how sick fish can become, and show you how much suffering they can go through with a bad fish to eat.

Many people dont agree with me on this topic too.. But the rosy red ones are just as bad as goldfish. Goldfish are nasty because of the amount of waste they produce. Rosys have weak immune systems to bring in disease and parasites aswell.

The easy work around?

There isnt one...

Its risky stuff using feeder fish, if you buy them at 17 cents a piece realize you're dumping out the value of a happy meal for your fish. See this as being cheap, see it as being inadequate, tell yourself your lungfish deserves better.

You dont want it to die, I know this he probably ran you 100 bucks or more, I get called an idiot when I tell people I bought my senegal bichir for 65 bucks (plus tax >_>). So you love it? You want it to live long? be happy and healthy? Its gonna cost... and this is what to do.

Get a 10 gallon tank. I know it costs money but you need to.
Get 2 male molly fish 4 females.
Let them breed
Get 20 zebra danios and another 5g tank
breed them there
in 3 months you'll have enough fish to adequately supplement your lungfishes diet and then some. You may even have a good oppertunity to sell them to fish stores... they wont buy mine but I dont want to sell them either.

Its good breeding practice too... it opens oppertunity for you to subsidize a lot of your fishkeeping hobby. My danios get return value from the store at 50 cents a fish beause I mixed in the "long finned" variety one day. Hell I'm not sure if they dont know that long fins are a dominant gene and you cant rid yourself of them.

But small experiments like this will make you some money, get you equipment and food for free (store credit rocks!) and they'll have the real diet they need without worry of sickness getting into them.400 danios at 50 cents a pop... thats what I can pump out every 2 months.

I started doing this myself at home when I lost 3 oscars to a bad batch of feeders from the pet store. I only use a 10 and 20, gallon tank and a 30 gallon plastic rubber maid bin. I've made my money back 5-10 times already and feed my fish healthy delicious and nutritious fishes. It takes some paperwork to keep your genes clean, you'll have to buy a couple new fish every month at 2-3 bucks... maybe free for trades.. Sometimes its hard keeping generations apart, but it works. Factually I can pump out 300-400 and approximately 200-300 mollies in a month and a half... You know it as well as i do... thats a lot extra...

Answer 7

i think you should ask someone that lives in africa in my school the real african princess is there but no one cares even though it is true