Plant with Gold Fish

[CitizenShane]

sit down with your goldfish, and find out what they like, they are a very feng shui fish. As for any real solution, our gold fish do the same thing, drive me nuts. We had a tank set up to look like a bar at a mouse perspective, over sized martini glasses and half gallon SKYY vodka bottles, with black gravel and the martini glasses were filled with red marbles (silentSkream likes the cosmos) We had a black moore that would rearrange the marbles by picking them up in his mouth, arrying them to a back corner and spitting them out in a pile.... drove us nuts!

 

[silentskream]

yeah he ended up spilling my martinis everywhere.. crazy alcoholic fish.


anyway. get the goldfish a separate tank. even fancy goldfish need water a little cooler than tropical fish. albeit not as big a difference as commons and similar goldfish. put real plants in with your tropical fish and fake ones in with your goldies. anything a goldfish can fit in his mouth, they will pick up and move.

 

[kj5kb]

I've had good luck with anubias, java fern and amazon swords with GF. I tie the Java fern to a rock; for anubias and Amazon swords I ensure they are firmly rooted in the gravel, and weighted down if necessary.

I don't like lead in my tanks; I use ceramic prefilter beads (little pipes) as weights with a plastic cable tie thru the hole. for larger plants I use a ring of 5-6 of 'em around the base of the plant. Over time they root well enough that they aint easy to move.

I suggest at least 2" of gravel for the plants to root in.

 

[cuticom]

From what the OP{ has said the tank isn't heated, she/he lives in the tropics and whether the goldies are in a separate tank or not it's still going to be the same temperature.

 

[silentskream]

not if he got a chiller for the goldy tank.

but i see your point.

 

[CitizenShane]

you can get water cooling systems

 

[gsparsan]

I've never seen anybody use a chiller around here, not even the suposedly "big shops". But I have seen people use heaters because they've seen it in a German magazine!
I think I will try the plants you all have mentioned. I already have Java Fern that is firmly griped on a big piece of wood. Some of it find their way on the surface but very little compared to the other plants. I have squeezed my plants between big rocks for the moment but I want to add more plants. A lot more. And I will soon run out of rocks.
I'll keep you updated if I get any luck with the plants mentioned here.
Thanks

 

[syddakyd]

there is a way to anchor in plants and it will protect them from every fish


get a rooted plant and dig it in gravel. then surround the base of the plants with large rocks to secure it

 

[nesas]

From my experience with gfish - just few days ago I took 7 of them back to the store. I had them for several years. As they grew they started to actually eat all java fern. I had fern across the whole gravel bottom before I introduced Gfish. I know they ate it because it's not floating around and I caught them munching on it. Slowly month by month all the leaves disappeared.

I would not keep any plants with gfish. Since my love towards tranquil aquascapes is greater than polluting, messy, gfish, I took them back and got $100 for 7 of them at LFS (they were pretty large and fancy), I bought guppies, and I LOVE the way my aquarium looks now - I can stare at it for hours.

Also introducing smaller fish to an aquarium makes it look that much larger. I'll never buy a gfish again unless it's for a pond or feeder fish.

 

[gsparsan]

My friend is redoing his 125g and he loves gold fish. As my angels grow bigger, I'm not sure the gfish will be happy having its tail chewed all day. I am considering giving him the gold fish. Plus most of you seem to think its best to separate the gfish from the tropicals. But first i'll have to make sure he can take care of it. Its his brother who usually takes care of his tank but he is out of the country for studies.

I've tried getting some of the plants you all mentioned and I was surprised to learn that the customs don't allow Java fern and Anubias into the country anymore. Apparently, they come from Africa and carry all sorts of desease that cause a threat to our indegenous plants. (I live in Mauritius btw). I managed to get hold of one big anubias from a treranium but its way too big to fit in my aquarium. I've prepared it, tied it to a fist sized rock and placed it in an old 10g outside. Once it gets the smaller leaves under water, I'll transfer it to the aquarium.