Goldfish

[chickenfoot3552]

How do you set up a goldfish tank, is it best to keep it simplistic like Cory's 800 gallon or bare? What's the best way to setup. If you can post pics. It'd be much appreciated, so I have a better idea of hwo to do it. 

[RovingGinger]

What kind of goldfish? The big fancy fat ones have slightly different environment considerations than anything slim-bodied. 
 

What I’ve heard and seen is that you don’t normally see the full aquascaping thing with goldfish. The goldfish is the highlight and the plants are a secondary accent. And the plants may get munched. 

[chickenfoot3552]

@RovingGinger Sorry, in my head when I say goldfish. I always mean fancy. I don't got the space for comet, koi, or ryukin

The Fancy ones I'm looking at are Oranada, Ranchu, Moors, or Fantail

[Alexa]

I like having sand or small gravel because they love sifting through it looking for food. Just make sure if you do use a substrate that it’s not too big as it can be a choking hazard.

Hardscape like river stones and wood is okay, just make sure there isn’t anything jagged, since fancies have those long flowing fins.

There are a lot of plants that you can get away with! Java fern and Anubias are common choices. Really any sturdy plant can work. I’m having success with Vallisneria inside of the easy planters. In the past I’ve floated stem plants and it worked out well; the goldfish will munch on it and new roots grow from the “broken” pieces 😊

There was a blog article recently about plants and goldfish:

5 Easy Plants for Goldfish Aquariums

WWW.AQUARIUMCOOP.COM

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