I was not thrilled with the whole snail idea, but they are the only thing that can survive with the gold fish. They are really neat to watch. Eventually I will get some tetras again and turn the tank into more or a tropical tank. I had to start with the goldfish, because of The Boy. He had won a fish at the fair.

We had 3 medium snails until Otto, the behemoth goldfish, decided to have escargot one evening.

We should have seen it coming, considering we named the three of them Ess, Car, and Go. :rolleyes:

Sadly, their little shells are all that remain. :(

I have a question about ssetting up a goldfish tank. When I have had a simple goldfish bowl in the past, I put water and a dechlorinate in the bowl, along with gravel, waited 5 minutes, put the goldfish with the bag into the bowl to get the water temp the same then dumped the goldfish in the bowl. II changed the water ever week or so and that's it. Fish was fine for a long time.

So, why is there time needed for a tank to neutralize (or whatever it's doing)? I know that in a saltwater tank, it takes time, but it doesn't make sense with a fresh water tank.

Something's Fishy !!
 

Just remember rule of thumb for tanks every inch of fish one gallon of water...and if you have a smaller tank you can do fine with an algea eater but not a i can't spell it starts with a P algea eater lmao..those grow to 24 inches in length not everyone is knowledgable about that.

NA you need to let a fishtank get the levels of amonia and nitrate and PH all that rather than a fish bowl is smaller than a tank thus no need for a filter like a fish tank...i don't know just we tell customers who buy the tanks to set it up and let it run for 48 hours or more and then get fish otherwise the fishies die....GC knows more than i do about this...i'm just a novice...all i have is a Beta thinking of getting the Nemo tank from work to put a few couple goldfish in lmao...

So, we can have 3 one inch fish and a .7 inch fish :D

...the aquarium shop we go to has some beautiful Bettas. But I'm still lured by the shiny Neon Tetras.. :blush:

Betas in my experience are easy to keep and hard to kill. Ours have lasted two to three years or longer.

I don't know.. a mallet ought to do it.

Sorry, that was totally un-Lashbear like.

Back to the real me.

Hello, Real Me™ here.

I think we'll look into the Beta thing further then. :)

We had one that jumped out of the bowl and onto the floor when I was at the store. I came home and thought it went down the garbarge disposal because it was sitting next to the sink ( I was cleaning the bowl). I was home for at least 15-20 mins before I decided I should check and see if it was on the floor. It was, kind of under the cabinets. So I finally decided I'd have to deal with the dead fish. I went to pick it up and it jumped. Scared the bejebbers out of me. It's name was Marilyn but Maddy started calling it Jesus because it came back from the dead :D

I'm no expert, but I always enjoyed the fish we had at the dental office I worked at. We kept a tank of aggressive fish and one plecos, and death was rare in that tank. Only thing is, once one is slightly down and out, the others will go after it, but I figure it's survival of the fittest, and that sort of thing doesn't bother me.