My Goldfishes! Options

[ricardoms]

Hi all!!

This is my first topic with you and i hope not the last one!!!

First of all sorry if my english is not to good, I will try to do my best.

I would like to show you my 600 litres aquarium. I have 6 goldfishes (2 orandas, 1 black moor and 3 fantails), 12 paleatus corydores, 3 cobitis taenia and 5 ancistrus.

Here it is:









This one is a baby of the other fishes!!



And a video!!!



Hope you´ll enjoy it!!!

See you all!!

[goldrush]

Gracias and welcome to RG

Very nice looking tank.Fish look healthy but do take note of the sand as substrate.In time it may harbour some unwanted inhabitants and accumulations.

[calicoly]

i really like ur aqua scaping

[ricardoms]

Thanks!!!!

Golsrush I "clean" the sand in every water change ( I change water every 3-4 days)but last days I am thinking about leaving the tank without any kind of substrate, what do you think about this option??

I am not pretty sure about doing this cause maybe will look not as beatifull as looks now!!!

But if I take all the substrate out I will have more litres to give to my fatties...jejjejejejjeje

At the moment I have 6 goldfishes in the tank and 5 more in my terrace, in a 150 litres "pond". They are still very young, 2 telescopes (1 black with long tail and a iron blue telescope), 1 calico ryukin and 2 beautifull calico fantails with lot of blue color!!!.

In the next weeks (probably in about 1-2 months) I will put all together and MAYBE in that moment I will take all the sand out...

Thanks all!!!

[Silverfish]

¡Hola!

Beautiful tank, it looks like your goldies have plenty of room where to swim!

I read you also keep Ancistrus with your goldies. Could I ask you if you've ever had any problems keeping Ancistrus with goldies? Have your goldies ever disturbed the Ancistrus or viceversa?
I ask because I read contrasting opinions about keeping Ancistrus and fancy goldfish together, so I wanted to know what your personal experience is, in this regard. I hope you don't mind the question! Thanks!

[ricardoms]

Thanks Silverfish!!

Don´t worry about asking!!!

In my own experience there is not a problem in keeping goldies with ancistrus but I guess every case is just different (like every fish!!!).
I just keep ancistrus to fight algae even not having a lot of them but they do their "job" in my tank (as well as some apple snails).
I´ve been having ancistrus for years and everytrhing is ok with them!! Maybe the only thing is the temperature but over 17-18º is ok for them (at home, even in the coldest winter, the temperature is always over 17º!!! )

Hope to have helped you!!

[Silverfish]

Thank you very much for getting back to me! Yes, it helps a lot, thank you!

In fact, tank temperature was another thing I was wondering about. I think Ancistrus ideally needs water at 20-24°C, so I was wondering if you kept the tank at a temperature below 20°C or above 20°C.
I keep my fancy goldies (they are still very young) at 20-21°C in summer - do you think (from your personal experience) that this is too warm for them?
I've been told the ideal temperature for them would be between 20-24°C, but I was wondering what you think about it. Since you managed to reproduce them I believe they must feel in the ideal water conditions so I would like to know your opinion. Thanks!

[ricardoms]

Hi again!!

Well I don´t really keep a constant temperature...as they live inside my house (the small pond is not "working" anymore, I have made some changes in my terrace so I had to "move it"... )
they have the "natural" temperature with a minimun of about 17º (if we are not at home) and a maximun of about 29.5º (this temperature last summer but normally the maximun that we have at home is about 28º but last summer was really hot!!! )...

Ancistrus get used pretty well to low temperatures if you introduce them to the tank in spring or summer so they get used to the lower temperatures along the weeks, as the winter comes. I don´t now If you understand me...

Once, when I had a real pond, but a small one(around 700 litres) , I had 2 ancistrus at only 12º!!! But this is not really recommendable cause they really suffer a lot...

Of course the ideal temperature for ancistrus, as they are tropical fishes, is always over 20º but in my personal experience I can tell you thet they not really suffer over 16-17º...less than that you may have problemas, just depends on the health of the ancistrus.

Well If you have any other question do not hesitate in contact me!!!!

See you!!