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So, I can't keep any plants in my goldie tank, because they uproot or just flat out destroy anything I put in. I've read that goldies mess with plants cos they are bored. What can I do to make them NOT bored? Are there goldfish toys? goldiPads? ;) habitrails?

I've got a tank of goldies, and they destroy or uproot (depending on stalk strength) every plant I put in the tank. What plants will stand up to goldies? Is there any way I can prevent them from uprooting/destroying plants? I tried putting the frequently uprooted ones (as opposed to the ones...

Before you read my giant bunch of text below, my question is what can I do for my remaining fish after 1 of them died for no discernible reason. I have a tank with some goldfish, koi, and a shubukin. 1 of the koi I got January, who'd always seemed healthy and had grown from like 3.5 inches to 5...

So I got a 55gal tank off CL, ended up having to reseal it cos it had a leak. Currently doing a leak test (At the couple inches of water in the bottom stage.) I was thinking, and realized that all my other tanks are on wire stands, and the one time I had a tank on a flat surface (a table) when I...

I got it loose at petco, and wanna make sure it's actually aquatic before I plant it, but I'm not sure what it is.

If I put a brand new HOT filter on a long since cycled tank, how long til the good bacteria colonize the filter? There's a number of decorations in the tank the bacteria have presumably colonized, and it's been over a week since the gravel was vacuumed, so I'm assuming there's plenty of...

So I had gotten some prepacked plants from petco, put them in quarantine. Left for the holidays a few days later, was gone 3 weeks instead of 1 cos of a family medical scare (turned out to be nothing). Come home, the plants are all dead cos the air pump on the plant quarantine died, so they were...

One of my goldfish got itself stuck in a small decoration I didn't even realize it could fit into, let alone get stuck in. I don't think he was there longer than a few minutes, because I walk past the tank often and always count the fish when I do. I've removed the decoration. He's lost quite a...

When is it safe to put small goldfish into the same tank as large? The large range from about 3 inches (body only) to 5.5, while the babies are pretty tiny, half an inch to an inch (body only). I'm thinking not til the babies are at least bigger than the mouths of the big ones, but is there some...

1 of my goldfish was sick last week, I think he had both fin rot and swim bladder problems. He wasn't swimming, but rather lying on his side on the bottom of the tank, and couldn't seem to right himself. He was breathing sporadically and really heaving when he did. His tail fin was kind...

Hi all. I had fish growing up, but my parents mostly took care of them. I got a 20 gallon tank and 6 goldfish at the beginning of the year. They're mostly doing great, but it's well past time to upgrade to a bigger tank, as the biggest of them is currently over 6 inches counting (fancy) tail. I...