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0:00 - INTRO
0:28 - GROUNDRULES FOR GOLDFISH TANK MATES
2:06 - #1 RETICULATED HILLSTREAM LOACH
3:01 - #2 BROCHIS MULTIRADIATUS
4:05 - #3 DOJO LOACH
4:43 - #4 BRISTLENOSE PLECO
5:52 - #5 RUBBERLIP PLECO
6:42 - #6 WHITE CLOUD MINNOWS
8:11 - #7 RICE FISH
9:07 - #8 HOPLO CATFISH
11:05 - #9 VARIATUS PLATY
11:32 - #10 ROSY BARB
14:01 - OUTRO
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I have been feeding Cobalt large cichlid sinking pellets for about a year now. My two have been very happy since the change. I have had people jump my butt because they say this food is horrible for goldfish. When I ask why, they cannot give me an answer backed up with scientific data. I cannot find any research data that would indicate that this food would be detrimental to my fin babies. What are your thoughts? Thank you.
Aquarium Co-Op Cory have ever raised Tripp’s can you make a video about their care and tank mates?
I just saw the video... they have a hillstream loach as a pleco... comments are turned off too
I think large danios, not giant are good mates. They are fast and hardy.
I have silver sharks red tailed sharks rainbow sharks and golden Rainbow sharks and a goldfish and a angelfish And the goldfishes old tank mate but my going to Sarah’s stay have babies so they are in the different tank
Hello. Don’t laugh … I’m a grown woman who has had a lifelong fear of fish. Sounds hilarious, I know. A flopping or dead fish creates pure terror. Watching and educating myself about goldfish is a self-imposed therapy for me and I appreciate your channel. Thank you!
I just wanted to say that your channel inspired me to get fish of my own......... and it was the best decision I’ve ever made😀😀😀
Me too! And here I am 2 years and three tanks later! Welcome to being broke!
@@shanecoffey7665 RIP YOUR BILLS thats why i only have 1 tank ;00
I love reading comments like this!
@@shanecoffey7665 Definitely, I thought I spent a lot on my first planted tank ($150), but when I got to my third planted tank….hoo boy ($500)
Fish reduce stress/anxiety which is good for the heart and they are low in cholesterol which is good for heart health as well. 🐟
A big school of White Clouds would look great in the 800.
A big school of small schooling fish in a huge tank always make for some of the best spectacles in the whole World.
Finally! This should always be on top of the “Tankmates for Goldfish” algorithm.
It was at the top of mine
While I do not have a gold fish, I want to thank you for this video and sharing your experience and expertise! I would encourage those with fish to listen to Cory... his advice has saved me tons of money hahaha
I grew up with fish tanks in the 1980s because of my Dad and am getting back into it now.....just wanted to say aquarium coop is AMAZING!! Brings back memories and learning so much more😀😀
Thanx Cory. Never knew you could keep so many different fish with goldfish. I was under the impression that pretty much they had to be kept alone because they were a colder water fish. Glad you cleared that up. 👍😎✌🍄
I was about to but some otocinclus for my goldfish tank and I'm really glad I watched this video before I did. Thanks for saving me and my fish a lot of potential trouble, I love this channel so much!
Honestly, goldfish are already so beautiful on there own, why do people push poor goldfish to to high temps, or other fish to to low, when you could just have a hill stream loach or two, and your goldfish, boom! Great looking tank!
kurt zingler Thats very true, it’s just important to recognize that you can have more than just a hill stream loach. Dojo loaches and plenty of other fish do better at a cooler temperature as well. You don’t have to push things to the limit and make things stressed in order to have additional fish in your tank
I’ve got golden dojo’s and a baby bristlenose with them
I agree... Wish i would have just kept it gold fish
kurt zingler why do people put goldfish and bettas in bowls with no filters or adequate space, and for bettas no heater, answer: people are idiots
Paige Hudgins I wouldn’t say they’re idiots. Just misinformed. It’s easy to do stuff like that when you see a lot of other people doing it
Best tank mates 1-10: Other goldfish
WOW So impressed...........
But, it depends on the type of goldfish, fancies with fancies, single tails, with single tails.
@@kuchikopi4631 but you can put double tail goldfish with single tail goldfish, I got a goldfish with big eyes and its double tail and another fish but idk what it is but its double tail
cool
@@crockdog9838 yh i have a fantail with comets it’s just as fast
I kept gold mystery snails & golden algae eaters in a small (100 gal) , planted and filtered pond with 3 to 4 fancy goldfish. I hope that they were nearly as happy as they made me. 🙂
My outdoor pond goldfish love their new rosy red minnow friends. They play nice and I've seen absolutely no aggression.
Interesting tips. As always good with general guidelines and what to keep in mind.
I appreciate this video very very much! I'm adopting a Shubunkin that I've set up a 75 gallon for and I've been trying to figure out good tank mates for her that aren't just the pair of golden loaches she's already buddies with. The longfin rosy barbs sound to me like a great long term plan if the bio-load ends up being light enough to handle her, her buddies, and the snails I'm planning on adding in. I also considered the hillstream loaches, and it's really nice to finally hear someone say they can work with goldfish.
Thanks for the nice videos all the time. I hope your back heals very quickly.
I have three goldfish (two comets and an oranda). Their only current tank mate is a pleco. I love the idea of adding in a dojo loach! I’ll have to look into them some more.
Thank you. I been wanting to upgrade my tank and your video has been very informative. 😃 you answered every question I had
Glad I found this video - just upgraded the filtration system on my 55g goldfish tank and want to add a bit more fish. Thanks!
That’s always a fun thing to do honestly, I just did the same with my 75 gallon…..
Love this! Been thinking about getting a hillstream loach or bristlenose for my goldfish tank for a while. I keep variatus platties (sunburst wag tails) with my 4 shubunkins in a planted 75 gallon at the moment and they've slowly expanded their population but most fry get eaten (as intended). It sounds like a hillstream loach or 2 is probably the way to go for me, although the blue eye lemon longfin bristlenose is really eye catching... almost like a gold colored koi or something.
I love your common sense approach!
I have 3 comet goldfish (feeder rescues) with 9 golden white clouds, lots of plants. No problems, and they look great together. The colors blend nicely, contrast beautifully with the green plants. Fairly low maintenance, minimal water changes needed, probably because of all the plants, which my Goldie’s don’t bother with much, including lots of hanging roots from water lettuce. Very relaxing aquarium to sit and watch.
how many gallons. I got two comets, and I'm thinking about 100 gallons
@@processrauwill7922 my 2 gold fish are in a 5 gallon tank
@@braydenroberts7297 that’s definitely not enough lol
@@processrauwill7922 im getting a 10 gallon today i have a fancy gold fish and a comet
@@braydenroberts7297 make that a 20 probably
Thanks so much! I have been looking for tank members for my goldfish and this really helped
Thank you Cory you are the go to guys for knowledge!!!
Just subscribed! I'm new in the fish hobby and loving it so far I started a channel and you inspired me!
I just found your channel , subbed and notified right away. My first ever fish went in my 40 gallon aquarium yesterday. Thems goldfish , 5 put in there. Hoping you continue to post very informative videos .Thank you very very much. From an older guy up in Canada.
Upgrade the tank when they grow that's really too small
Thank you for this video! Great info!
From personal experience White Cloud minnows work so wonderful with goldfish. Mine are definitely too big to be eaten and its so cute watching them try to follow my fancy 😂💕
Lovely Orandas behind you. I love the full round fins.
Fish co-op really amazing .
In Australia the Tandanus catfish is a great tankmate for goldfish, can go outside year round in temperate regions as well.
Thanks Cory for the tips. Have never mixed other fish with my goldfish.
Thank you for this video! I have a 75 gallon tank I'm setting up with an Oranda and a Ryukin fancy. my plan is to have pearlweed and S. Repens carpet the bottom as a buffer between the open water and the bottom as well as a cavernous rocky area to the side with space for the smaller fish to enter/exit but not the goldfish, I want to get a couple dojo loaches to live down there and some white clouds or variatus platys
I love watching your videos. I have developed MTS from you and I'm loving it, also have tried my first plants ever thanks to your easy products and tutorials keep up the amazing work.
I’m a beginner, thank you so much for this! ❤️
I added feeder fish, most were eaten but not all of them. Some have now grown to pretty much to full size and make a lovely addition to my small ponds (including some long-tailed ones). I added four rosy barbs to the pond that has the larger fish, and they all seem to get along just fine 🙂. I’ve got an array of goldfish, too, including plain old comets, blackmoors, telescopics, orandas, subunkins, pearl scales, bubble eyes, celestial eyes, one angel tail and one ryukin. I inherited most of the goldfish when we moved here, a couple of years ago, but I’ve found a nice balance of varieties of gold- and other fish, snails, vegetation, algae and pond visitors (like the tree-frogs who come down to lie on the water for a drink, or mosquitoes who venture too close to the surface of the water, for too long). I’m going to get some more fish, now that I’ve seen this; I’ve watched lots of so-called experts who warned against so many things that appeared would work, and suggested so many things that really couldn’t work (I had to double check their facts as I don’t really know much about fish other than keeping hardy, cold-water fish alive in a small, outdoor setting, the benefit of which is that I don’t need to keep the glass immaculately clean because the algae helps create a more natural environment for all manner of life in there). Thank you for reiterating the principles of finding tank-mates for goldfish and explaining the facts and logic behind it all 🙂 xxxoooxxx ❤️
Great tank mates video and information 😎👍🏻
Thank you so much! I was hoping you would do a goldfish tankmates video.i have giant danios in my goldfish tank so also a great tankmate they are even breeding in my tank.
Troy Johnson same bro
Rhodeus spp (cool water). - Its a cool looking, Barb like schooling fish. It gets a bit chunky so it would be hard for a Goldfish to swallow and it also has a very interesting breeding strategy, reminiscent of the shell dwellers.
Awesome video man definitely gave me some great ideas for what is possible.
My go to guy for aquarium tips. Very knowledgeable fella
I currently have pictus cats, yo-yo loaches, otocinclus and a mystery snail, with my two fancy goldfish. I got the otocinclus before I saw this video. Started with four and currently at two otos. Never found the two missing otos, so possibly eaten. Thanks for this helpful video!
Looking for a few friend to help keep my 12 year old common goldfish’ tank clean. This really helped!
Great list my dude!
Reticulated hillstream loaches ROCK!
Nice list Cory, I've kept zebra danios with mine for a few years, definitely brought my goldfish out of their shells a bit, can't say I noticed much aggression from the danios towards the ranchus, worked well for me 👍
I had considered them as well. I Just wasn't sure how well they would work for a majority of people due to how fast they eat. But yes I believe danios are worth trying a swell.
Not so much zebra danios as my larger ones ate them. Had the giant danios with mine for about 3 years no problem.
I have Flying fox, zebra danios, white cloud minnows with my group of 4 shubunkin/2 koi and 2 small comets. In a 29 gallon for over the winter. They were usually in a turtle pond for the warmer seasons. Now I gotta build a secondary because my turtle has tasted blood. all my fish get along perfectly fine. Building a canopy for it, will probably make a video showing my winter-over stocked tank.
I have been running pictus catfish with a common gold fish for a while now at about 74 degrees. All are very happy in a 40 gal.
Now I want a hillstream loach
I have 3😊
Cool! I've been looking for something like this for ever. I have a comet goldfish and he's about 8" (huge). And he tears up everything. Very hard to keep live plants in there with him and there was other fish in there but they all died off, and I'm looking for a friend for him. He lives with a regular pleco and they are good together but I wanted a swimmer for him. Definitely going to pick something from this list, thanks 👍
I have found that clownplecos do really well with goldfish. The fancy ones anyways. You have to balance the temp a bit more, but in between 70-80 seems to make them all fairly happy 🧡
I keep my lion head ranchu with some rainbow fish they do very well together in my personal experience so far
I have some snails for my fish and they are very calming and have no aggression
I feel like a rare case then!! My goldfish were feeder fish until we saved them and put them in an outdoor pond. Once the pond was at risk to freezing we put the fish with our cichlids cause we thought we would just try. And they love it!!! Haven’t had any issues and it’s been over a year! Some other tank mates are 2 clown loaches, 3 HUGE plecos, and a red tail blue loach!
Haha well if you put them in almost freezing water I can see why’d they prefer the tank
I swear you look like someone I knew in the Army. Birdwell 82nd ABN 😂. Great vids. Keep em going.
Mine have some mystery snails and whiteclouds with them. So far so good
Raphael Cats with Fancys and Comets in a 75. Even a few Blue Tetras that love all the room, man they're fast
I have hoplo catfish with mine and they are great together.
Chaetosomas! I have the spotted and the striped-one of which turns a very nice orange on the underbelly. The only fish they chase in my 180g are the clown loaches. I also keep them with S lucipinnis and sidthimunkis in a 60g. Great algae eaters. A more delicate touch with plants too. Since Dorkula likes danios, might those appear in the 800?
In my 65, I currently have a single ranchu, two medium dojo’s, and a small school of white clouds. This tank was originally just a grow out tank for three baby ranchu before they get moved out to my pond, but tragedy struck this summer and I lost all of my goldfish except the one ranchu when my city did something weird with the water supply. The poor lone ranchu was depressed until I moved in some buddies from my other tanks and now he is so happy derping around the tank with the other fish. Multiple water tests make me think there is heavy metal or something else that doesn’t come up on my tests. I just can’t do water changes during the summer now. 2020 happened, so my pond is drained until spring and this little ranchu is stuck in the house until then too.
we have a park witha big pond in town here. there has to be about 200 huge gold fish just schooling around. take the children to feed the ducks and the fish. the city even got a big fountian to keep the pond ice free (mostly ice free) in the winter months
Thank you for the video. While I keep only fancy goldfish in my tank this is good to know. ...... you fancy’s are amazing in the tank behind you. I especially love the Orandas. Do u sell them online? Also where are you located?
Thanks, very interesting.
To feel my bristlenoses (babies at the moment 5mths old), i have a skull ornament they hide in, so every second day i put a vegie wafer into the eye hole of the skull where the goldfish can't get into. When they get to big to hide in the skull i will have to come up with a new plan. I also put some sinking food into the bushy plant hoping they get some of that to.
Tankmate suggestion for the 800 goldfish tank... Danio danglia, Moustache Danio. BIG active peaceful schoolers (larger than giant danio). I think a big group of about 40 or 50 would look amazing in there. They're also very fast; no way a goldfish can catch them.
I had a school of 12 black skirt tetras in with mine they got along good
I love my dojos and hi fin banded loaches
Nice video... Red cloud minnows will get ate by your gold fish, I learned that the hard way..have some bigger orandas, didn't think it was possible... But yes bought 3 minnows, 3 days later all of them were consumed.. Platty's \ Mollies do great... Even in cold water, also have Serpae Tetras, the tetras mess with themselves not the goldfish.... I reckon most Tetras would do fine.. Should have a cleaner fish too... Like he described.. Happy fishin🤓
"a hotdog with fins".
I love that line to makes me laugh every time
This goldfish tank has made you a personal hero of mine. The variatus platy being cold hardy was something i did not know. On a related note Ive got a gold dojo loach i put in my 120 about a week ago, (plan on adding another pair soon) last few days he has taken to swimming into the current from the HOB and then abruptly doing what I can only describe as playing possum. He will float stiff as a board for a few moments, then take off. I do not believe it is a swim bladder issue, he can stay on the bottom whenever he wants, but coming home to see your loach "stuck" to the filter does nothing good for my blood pressure. Otherwise he is very active, burrowing in the gravel occasionally, absolutely destroys his food. Only tank mates are goldies and a bristlenose I haven't seen since I put in a month ago. Anybody else had this behavior? Looked about online and answers were all over the place.
I used to keep rosey barbs. Used to bite my fingers when cleaning
Very help full❤️
Love this! Currently deciding between two setups for my 36 gallon bowfront. 1. 2 or 3 young angelfish, a snowball pleco and a few khuli loaches. 2. 2 Smaller Oranda goldfish and some hillstream loaches. Anyone wanna vote? 1 or 2?
Did Dorkula have to tell you twice? Haha keep up the good work!
Hello... Mister Fish lover... Nice sharing my friend...❤️ Beautiful fish
Great video! :) Another species that seems to work really well in a goldfish tank (at least with single-tailed goldfish and wakins) is the siamese algae eater. They're very friendly tank mates with a "food response" that is similar to that of goldfish, so they don't get outcompeted at feeding time. Goldfish are also effective dither fish for the SAE's, making them feel more at ease. Other species my goldfish are currently kept with are panda garras, hoplo cats and some corydoras (large enough to be a safe combo). Very peaceful tank. 👌
Are those the same as Chinese algae eaters?
@@brickosaurus2276 Which ones specifically do you mean? :)
@@aquagino88 well I heard that Chinese algae eaters are not safe to have with goldfish because they tend suck the slime coat even if you feed them separately. I believe petco sells them with goldfish. I don't know if there is a difference or not
@@brickosaurus2276 Oh I see. Yeah I would never trust a Chinese algae eater with peaceful/vulnerable fish like goldfish. The scientific name of the species you don't want is Gyrinocheilus aymonieri. If you compare it closely to a Crossocheilus species (the ones you want) you'll learn to spot the difference. 🙂
By the way, sometimes the Chinese algae eater is labeled as "Siamese". And there are species which look like the actual Siamese algae eaters but which are not. There are some articles on the internet which explain the difference nicely.
You should do a video on tank mates for a mbu puffer
I have a koi angel fish with my fancy goldfish and they all get along great.
How did you get your angel fish to live in cold water?
I would *love* to get some oranda and lion head gold fish someday. They just look so fun and full of personality 😊
If you go on the goldfish subreddit, there's someone who posts there semi-frequently with an oranda they rescued that loves to be hand fed and actually gets upset when it isn't played with. Look up glocket's posts, they post videos and they're there BEST part of my day!
Hey Cory! Would love to see a follow up to this video
My Goldfish Pond has 9 fancys, 1 Golden Sucking Catfish, 1 common Brown Sucking Catfish, 6 Rosy barbs, 6 Glowlight Chilli Rosy Barbs, 6 Zebra Danios and they all get along great. :P I was considering chucking a pleco or 2 in there too. There's plenty of algae and biofilm to go around. Lol.
Hey everyone! I have currently got a smaller tank with a couple of variatus platys and a few danios, as well as a couple of amano shrimp I rescued from a friends tank. In the near future I plan on upgrading to a 55 gallon (200L) tank of my dreams. I really want to begin that tank with 2 fancy goldfish (a black moor and a fantail) and was thinking about repeating my current set up of variatus platys and danios. Really glad to see the variatus platys are in this video, but I was just wondering on people’s thoughts on danios? Like the white clouds obviously they are a schooling fish and are pretty fast - so they would likely dodge being eaten in my opinion! But any reasons why I should/shouldn’t would be ace, thanks!
I have 10 dwarf pale blue ghromie s in a 55 gallon tank with 2 ivory/ peach fancy goldfish. 6 Coriadoras help to keep the tank clean..
Thanks 😊
I have a common pleco in with my gold fish in my classroom the only time their was an event was when I could not get back in my classroom over a break and I was not able to feed them before but the fish recovered
Hi I’ve got. 1 common GF, 2 comet GF, 3 fantails GF, 2 wood shrimp, 4 sunset plates, 5 S&P corries 5 albino corries 1 zebra snail, Temperature is at 23c with 2 heaters in a aqua one AR850 165lt tank. No problems with clouding and my nitrates at 0, @ph7. 2 goldfish at at 3” noise to tail. Working for me so far.
Any suggestion for a 55 gallon that has 2 fancy Goldfish and 2 Dojo loaches - algae eater? I added mystery snails, but they will not live in there (I find empty shells), LFS thinks loaches ate them, live...ICK!
I wish you made a video about fish to go with shrimp (think Cherry), and which not to. For example, can I have flat loaches or, Yoyo loaches, or Dojo loaches? I'm going for different fish here. Those are super cool. I learned the hard way that Chinese Golden Algae Eater eat them when they reach a certain size. Now i just need to figure how to take them out of my tank.
I have some brochis splendens and they are cool, but shy
Adult white clouds are working with the fancy gold fish, if you have a lot of water change and good water flow, it works. 🙂 But they will eat them, if they are to small.
Beautiful 😍 vedio so cool and important information
I have two gold fish and along with them are 4 mollies 8 guppys 2 sword tail and 2 tank cleaners
I keep a goldfish with mollies, they are decent size so they don’t get eaten, peaceful and while they are tropical fish, they can go a little bit colder than most trivial fish.
Only think Ive put with my goldfish was a pleco & applesnails. The applesnails got huge!!
So I have a 60 gallon tank currently with one ranchu goldfish, soon to be followed by a second fancy, a few snails and a lone amano shrimp. I’m currently working on setting up a large piece of driftwood and then I will be adding some anubius, Java fern and Amazon sword plants. Once I do I would like to get a cleaner type fish and a schooling fish. The school will most likely be the white cloud or rice fish, and I liked the idea of a hoplo. But I’m not sure how many I should get, any advice would be awesome
I've had super great success with koi swordtails, with both fancy and very large comets. The swordtails grew from 6 to probably close to 100 over the summer, and voraciously attack food with the goldfish, which is fun to watch. The platy's population only went from 6 to about 9 over the summer. In the month I've brought the platy's inside to their own tank, they're populations at about 40 now, and some fry are free swimming with the adults. Not sure how the swordtail fry were so successful with the goldfish...
I had a 150 gallon tank with 2 angelfish, a single fantail goldfish to eat the snail population boom (he loved them), 6 Blue spotted sunfish (North American native), cory catfish, and a ton of platy/swordtail hybrids. Yeah, the platy babies would get eaten, but they always bred faster than they got predated.
Excellent video. I'll be putting in a med sized pond and wanted white clouds but was going to settle on koi in fear that people wouldn't notice the white clouds or be disappointed they couldn't see impressive sized fish....now I'll do both. Woot woot!
Hey Cory, I was wondering what's the best way to transport first for hours without dying in car. So my idea was using a bucket with a lid to keep from spashing with Two holes. One hole would have one of those airline connectors attached to the lid with airline attached to the inside of the lid with a stone so its part of the lid and the pump can be removed and attached as needed and the other hole maybe with a check valve or something? Air in one hole air out the other? How stupid is that idea and would there be some sort of gas exchange issue.
I had a hillstream loach but he may have been a bit small and got nommed. So I have a few snails in with them now😂
I have 3 fancies with 2 yellow tail spinny eels. I have not ran into any problems yet, it been about a year and a half.