I have a small tank dedicated to my tropical fish, its only about 1ft square. My guppies have had babies and i need more room. I have a tank with goldfish in, this tank is 4ft long 2ft high and 1ft wide. There are 9 regular gold fish and 3 shubunkins. Ive been considering buying a heater to put in the bigger tank and moving the tropicals across. Willl the gold fish be ok in a warmer tank (my tropical is currently set at 26) and will they mix ok with my tropicals. I have got Mollies, platies, guppies, gouramis, red tail shark and an assortment of tetra's.
2007-03-25 22:44:33 · 13 answers · asked by NLP 2 in Pets ➔ Fish
Mine are doing just fine - warm up the cold water tank so it's the same as the tropical and then move the tropicals over a few at a time!
2007-03-25 22:46:28 · answer #1 · answered by bumblecherry 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
First of all guppies are not tropicals. They are cold water fish.
They are also, brackish and salt water and live fine in all areas. you can move your guppies to a cold tank but cannot move your goldfish to the warmer tank. Mollies as well will do well in cooler water, brackish and salt water. Gouramis will not do well in cold water. I will say this, you have too many gold fish, including the shubs in one tank. 12 fish + all the guppies IS WAY too small for these fish. Your gold fish not only need LOts of dissolved oxygen, they need room to grow. NO HEATER! goldfish are cold water only and your guppies will be fine as well as the mollies. However moving all of them to this tank will quickly over crowd and knock your biofilter for a loop. Keep your platies, grourmis and redtail in the warm tank, however that too is way too small for all your fish. Tetras can also be cold water. you in short have too many fish for your tanks. Keep an eye on the ammonia levels sounds like you will be doing water changes every other day until you get a bigger tank. Keep the filter clean and the water level in the cold water tank 1/2 inch low to allow the dissolved oxygen to enter and be pleantiful in the tank.
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2007-03-26 06:14:02 · answer #2 · answered by danielle Z 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tropical fish require temperatures of 70-85f if you fail to do this then the fish will die of disease or starvation as they will not be able to digest food. Coldwater fish can for limited periods survive in warmer water 70f however, with the water at these temperatures the oxygen content is much reduced and the fish will suffer over a period of time and again this will eventually compromise there immune system through stress. So the answer in general is no.
2016-03-29 06:32:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not something that i'd advise but yes you can do it .... The only problem is that your goldfish can actually bake. If your heater is set at 26 (79 F) your goldfish and other cold water fish can actually bake. On warm days where you might experience increases in your water temperature it may be possible that your tank could rise up to 82-86 F and these aren't healthy conditions for coldwater fish.
2007-03-25 22:56:46 · answer #4 · answered by Smarty 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
tropical fish need the more maintenance environment to survive, so you would need to adapt the gold fish to cope in the hotter/filtered environment of the tropical. They should do fine but introduce this slowly for best results.
2007-03-26 03:07:38 · answer #5 · answered by hayles 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
gold fish can survive well in tropical atmosphere so yes you can mix them. i got guppies and neon with goldfish they are doing well from the last 11 months so yea go ahead mix it.
2007-03-25 22:56:21 · answer #6 · answered by ace_lovin 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no you shouldnt.
putting goldfish in tropical temp water will shorten there lifespan other than that they will be fine.
but the guppies wont be the goldfish will try to eat them and will defenatly enjoy eating the babie fry.
2007-03-25 23:21:18 · answer #7 · answered by Joanne 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No problem, but I don't know wich cold water fish you have. But be aware, it could be that the cold water fish likes warm water fish for dinner, specially guppy's !
2007-03-25 22:56:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
hmmm i don't know about this one but id say get your red tail shark fish away from anything smaller than its self when i had my tank my red tail was very aggressive and Territorial and killed my smaller fish he was OK with my angel fish and cat fish though
2007-03-25 22:56:06 · answer #9 · answered by steve738494 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can do that but if the goldfish are big they can eat your guppies. Even guppies eat their babies if not seperated..
2007-03-25 23:09:29 · answer #10 · answered by Compo 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋