Hi Amber,
I have 4 Goldfish in a 100 UK gallon tank [I think that's 120+ US
gallons] & they are all a little bigger than yours. I struggle to maintain
anything like good quality water doing a 30 gallon water change every other
day so I do think it is a good idea of yours to find someone with a pond
that your fish can live happily in-these animals can reach over a foot long
so they will be messing up their water big time.
I would add that Goldfish love each others company so it is kinder to keep
2 rather than 1 if you are going to keep any. They are very dirty fish
waste-wise & will quickly pollute any small system they are in so you need
huge tanks with vast filtration for Goldfish. One of the ironies of
fishkeeping is that the humble Goldfish-one of the cheapest fish-needs a
lot of money, time & knowledge invested to keep after them properly.
John*<o)))<*
On 5 September 2012 20:21, Charles Harrison <charles@inkmkr.com> wrote:
> **
>
>
> >Okay, so on to my questions:
> >I should be doing a 50% water change once a
> >week, right? So, if this is true could I do five
> >10% changes every week?
>
> NO! That is not the same. 50% water
> change takes out 50% of the waste, 10% only takes
> out 10% of it. 90% is left behind. Next 10% out
> still leaves 90% of the waste behind. The
> equilibrium will drop to a specific level over
> several weeks but 50% out gets closer to new
> water than 10% out ever will.
>
> What keeps the water cloudy? The tank never
> really cycled and the Bio-load you have it under
> is too high.
>
> Goldfish don't have much of a stomach. They don't
> digest their food very well. That is true of many
> scavenger/bottom feeders. A large portion of what
> you put into their mouths comes out the other end
> unchanged. That's why they need so much
> room/water to be housed. Of course the fish gets
> to 7 to 12 pounds full grown and that is a lot of
> fish and fish waste.
>
> Good luck.
> }}<{{{¿> <*{{(((>{{
> Change as much water as often as you can!
> Charles Harrison in St Louis
> http://www.inkmkr.com/Fish/
> }}<{{{¿> }}<{{{¿>
>
> >Hello! I've got a 55 gallon tank with four
> >medium sized goldfish in it. We set the tank up
> >around a >month ago and ever since our tank has
> >been cloudy. Even the water coming out of the
> >filters is >cloudy. Here's the info on the tank:
> >
> >55 gallons
> >AquaClear 50 HOB filter.
> >Tetra Whisper Internal 30i filter
> >3 common goldfish
> >1 comet goldfish What's making the tank cloudy
> >and what can I do to help remedy that? Every
> >water change I take the foam insert out of my
> >AquaClear and rinse it clean. I don't touch the
> >bio-bag or the carbon pouch. I've put pictures
> >of the water that I took out of the tank on
> >flicker and if anyone would like to see them I'm
> >sure I can post a link to them. I know goldfish
> >are difficult to take care of but I don't really
> >want to have to give them up.
>
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>
>
>
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