can i keep them along?i had 6 guppies(now 4) and 2 red cap,2 black moor,1 milky carp goldfish,1 fantail goldfish,1 sucker mouth catfish,2 bala sharks, please tell me what could have happened?i keep them in 1 single tank only of 33 gallon capacity.GUPPIES WEE VERY SMALL and GOLDFISH ARE MEDIUM IN SIZE.
2007-12-31 17:59:29 · 8 answers · asked by ¸.•*´`*♥ ♥I.C.J.♥ ♥*´`*•.¸ 1 in Pets ➔ Fish
You're overstocked, you're mixing coldwater and tropical fish, you have fish which prefer totally different Ph ranges and you have large fish in with small fish . . . How many reasons do you WANT for the guppies going missing?!
1. Most fish will eat anything that will fit into their mouths. For goldfish - which can grow to between 8-10" (the fancies) and up to 1ft/12" (common), that includes tasty little bite-sized guppies (AND, for that matter, the catfish). Guppies are used as feeder fish in pet shops!
2. Your tank can handle TWO fancy goldfish! NOTHING else! That many fish in that tank will cause stunting - especially the sharks and the goldies.
3. I would HATE to test that tank water for ammonia and nitrite! Both of these are poisonous to ALL the fish - never mind the guppies - which aren't as strong as they once wqere.
4. One or the other of the types of fish in that tank are suffering in the wrong temperatures. Water that's kept above 22*C will dramatically speed up the lifecycle of the goldfish, while water too cold for the tropical fish (anything below 23*C) will kill them!
5. Guppies and goldfish prefer harder water with pH of 7 and above. The sharks and the catfish, on the other hand, prefer softer water of ph 6.0-7.5. Unless your pH is spot on 7, one of the fish is going to be uncomfortable.
6. The sharks will grow to around the same size as the fancies (8-10"). They need to be kept in shoals, (as do the catfish) and they need tanks of AT LEAST 6ft to avoid stunted growth!
7. Goldfish are waste machines! They need heavy duty filtration in order to survive.
The only way you're going to stop any more guppies from becoming a goldfish's lunch, is to seperate the tropicals (the sharks, guppies and the catfish) from the goldies - and that means another tank.
But that's not all! Unless you're prepared to get a HUGE tank (around 75 gallons), all but 2 of the goldies will have to be rehomed to avoid stunting. If my suspicion is correct, the Milky Carp is just another colour form of the common goldfish - which can't be kept in the same tank as fancies ANYWAY because they're heirachal and the common will ALWAYS outcompete the fancies for food.
To keep all these fish happy, you're going to need AT LEAST 3 6ft tanks - one for the tropical fish (especially the sharks), one for ALL the fancies (they'll need a minimum of 75 gallons) and the other for the Milky Carp. ALL of the goldfish need heavy duty filtration (always best to overfilter with goldies).
2007-12-31 22:53:13 · answer #1 · answered by Lindsay 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It sounds as if the goldfish ate the guppies...You will want to consider a second tank and splitting up the kinds of fish...they are not acceptable tankmates.
2008-01-01 02:49:33 · answer #2 · answered by J H 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
man,do you know how big the bala shark will grow?
The only one you have who keeps well with all is the catfish(it also can grow big,depending on species)All of the gold fish will eat any smaller fish that can fit in it's mouth,the gold fish will be fine together,but again the two carp(can get big/best suited to pond or such like)
Bala sharks are best kept with larger species(not as easy to be picked at)at night when lights are out the bala comes out&likes to nip at fins....Just a little re-thinking needed.Research each species you have&compare...
2008-01-01 00:13:31 · answer #3 · answered by fighterfish 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Duh!
2007-12-31 18:42:19 · answer #4 · answered by PeeTee 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
When hungry, bala sharks and goldfish will start to eat anything they can find. Like the person above said, you might want to invest in something larger with your bala sharks. If the guppies were as wee and small as you made them sound, they MAYBE got sucked up the filter. But most likely is that they got eaten.
2007-12-31 18:16:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The bala's more than likely ate them. Sorry, might want to invest in fish a little larger than guppies or tetras if you want to keep the bala sharks.
2007-12-31 18:13:27 · answer #6 · answered by alwaysmyself 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they prob eat them.
2007-12-31 18:03:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
they ate the guppies....
the rule is " big fish eat small fish and smal fish eats smaller fish"
there is also a possibility that they jump out.
2007-12-31 21:53:12 · answer #8 · answered by . 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋