Latest Incarnation of my Goldies Tank

My goldies are my babies and this is their current home. The video is from my webcam and it's not the greatest webcam, so it's not the greatest video. Also, there was a bit a shakiness here and there do to having the view behind me and holding the web cam in the opposite direction. Still, there are some good views of my babies.

You will see five orandas: a red and black (Yiorgos), a redcap (Maddie), a panda (Zorbas), a blue (M - oooooo, so mysterious), and a chocolate (Theo). (You might remember the first two from another video, when they were much smaller.) The last goldie is a black moor (Mary Tyler... get it? Snort, snort). There are also three dojo (weather) loaches, one regular and two gold. One of the gold dojos (Hugo) has a spinal deformity and it's part of what make me love him so much that he doesn't let it affect him at all. The other gold dojo is Victor and the regular dojo is Darius. There are also several female and male fathead minnows that I'm surprised haven't been eaten. They were originally bought as feeders for another fish, a South American leaf fish that I had, but I kept them after I sold that fish for complicated reasons. And they make excellent dither fish. All seem to get along very well.

There's a lot of floating anacharis at the top, which all of the fish love to nibble on. Some of the decor is very silly, but I leave them there until I can figure out what else to do because otherwise, it would be very plain and possibly boring for these very intelligent, active fish.

It's a 55 gallon and, yes, entirely too overstocked. But the goldies are small enough now that I can get away with it for the time being. My plan is to eventually get another 55 and divide them up between them. For now, though, two 33-40% water changes a week with anacharis doing a surprising amount of work in keeping the nitrates down, everyone seems healthy and happy. Contributing to this is a nice green algae growth in the back (you may notice it). Not only are they beneficial for oxygenation and nitrate consumption, but they provide excellent nutrition for the ten nerite snails in the tank.

I hope you like them.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• fish
• goldfish
• asian
• loach
• dojo
• gold
• weather
• fathead
• minnows
• orandas
• black
• moor
• 55
• gallon
• nerites
• algae
• overstocked
• overstocking

[WinterHaven]

Orandas and any kind of bubble eyed goldfish are much higher risk of disease. I have much better luck with them with a UV light setup.

[pandarsson]

@WinterHaven Thank you very much for the tip. I will definitely look into it.

Are you talking about replacing the standard light, or making an addition?

[WinterHaven]

@pandarsson a UV light is an enclosed chamber which a UV light sterilizes the water that goes into contact with it. The fish don't see it. I love my UV light-it makes the water not just clear but SERIOUSLY crystal clear in about 5 days!

[destroyahdes]

This is a cute video. I can tell you love your fishies. The music is cute.

[nicktkret]

like them lok at my vid and post comment

[mdjelico]

I love the little carrot-tops, funny, just like the other carrot top.

[WendyAYork]

They are simply maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahvelous!!!!!!­!

[TwistVenus]

Yer fishes are beautimous.