can a common goldfish live with 5 mollies for awhile? my sister keeps a common goldfish in a 1-1.5 gallon bowl and i keep telling her to take him out but she wont. we have 2 ponds but they need to be cleaned out and stuff which we cant do right now.
so can her goldfish live with my tank of mollies? thanx!
2007-09-01 05:16:09 · 4 answers · asked by soccer655 1 in Pets ➔ Fish
i dont know if i should i mean now the temp is 80 degrees faren.
2007-09-01 05:21:47 · update #1
my sis wants me to take her fish but i cant buy another big tank and i dont want to keep it in a bowl.
and both of us do NOT want to kill it.
2007-09-01 05:40:46 · update #2
I have kept and still do keep goldfish. The tank is a better home for the goldfish but the two types of fish are not compatable either. 80 won't kill or stress the goldfish too much as long as there is a lot of water movement going on. Run an extra airstone and make sure to keep the filter on as high as it will go. A 20 gallon tank is not that expensive or hard to care for. The goldfish is a delightful pet and collecting is habit forming, there are some gems out there. You might find yourself more and more attached to the goldfish, it acts like a puppy. I think it would be ok for a temporary home, I just hate to see goldfish suffer in a bowl. If he gets too big in the tank he could likely make lunch out of the mollies too. That's just one thing to consider. Maybe you could somehow find him a home. He's not going to live in that bowl, and soon if a decision is not made between the two of you, it will be decided for you because the fish will be dead.
2007-09-01 06:28:32 · answer #1 · answered by Sunday P 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. One point not yet made is the goldfish may have a disease that could wipe out your mollies. Pick up a bowl and place the gold in there for a while.
2007-09-01 06:51:45 · answer #2 · answered by TopPotts 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
warm water will be too stressful for it. best bet would be in a bowl until you can clean the pond
2007-09-01 05:45:19 · answer #3 · answered by imagin_asian 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you can cool the temperature down to 75 yes, but only for a few days, the longest 10 days
Hope that helps
good luck
EB
2007-09-01 05:52:41 · answer #4 · answered by Kribensis lover 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋