16 New Goldfish, Help With Set Up! Options

[Hamad]

Hello guys, I couldn't do this without your advice so here it is.

I am getting a box with 16 goldfish as soon as I confirm the order and send in the cash, it takes just one day for the box to reach me so I need to make sure everything is fine and set once the fish are here.

I believe that 16 fish will need 10 gallons each, a 160gallon tank is out of the question so I bought a 180 gallon plastic pool instead that I'll place in the balcony [it's much cheaper and the weather is ok now].

I am going to fill it with water today and then rinse it tomorrow just to test and then fill it and add aeration and have it ready for the fish. But what else should I add and should I treat the fish with anything? I would appreciate if anyone can give me very detailed information regarding this period such as how many water changes, how many times they should be fed, how much salt, etc...

Out of the 16 fish, 5 or 6 will move to the main 55gallon tank gradually [one fish every week], and any fish that doesn't look great to me I will sell to any of the local stores and just keep the best ones.

Thanks in advance!

[Hamad]

Thank you so much aronkhj, you're right they were very stressed because all of them now are running around so actively and recovered except for the one floating - the rest regained their energy it seems and I am very happy that they adjusted nicely!

An hour ago I bought two more tubs as well, one is 100 litre and the other about 60. Currently there is 5 to 6 fish in each of the three 150 tubs, I want to narrow it down to 4 to give them more space. I also found Melafix today which I'm going to dose with during the next water change.

Anyway as promised here's the pictures, they don't show the fish very well and I haven't taken good pictures of them but I will soon


^^ tubs ready and waiting for the fish


^^ once I got home and opened the box...


^^ left the bags float for 30 minutes...


^^ introduction of tub water to the bags


^^ 20 minutes later, here's the first fish set free in the tub...


^^ two beloved butterflies, yeah one has unbalanced eyes LOL


^^ checking out the new place...


^^ the Orandas tub, 4 red and 2 red caps


^^ this tub has red/white and black butterflies, + 2 beautiful calico orandas

That's all there is, and I have to say thanks to everyone that replied to this thread because I truly learned a lot from the advises offered here. Will keep this thread updated throughout the quarentine period and hopefully it will go smoothly.