Tetra and goldfish together

[Kester Teague]

Can I feed these fish the same kind of food? Right now I have the
basic goldfish flake food, can the tetra eat this as well? Or should I
get a different brand of food for my new pals?

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not a good idea to put these fish together.

"Kester Teague" > wrote:

>Can I feed these fish the same kind of food? Right now I have the
>basic goldfish flake food, can the tetra eat this as well? Or should I
>get a different brand of food for my new pals?



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[Laura]

I feed my goldfish and tropicals different food that is made for them. I
only feed my tropicals Nutra fin max.

[swarvegorilla]

"Laura" > wrote in message
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> I feed my goldfish and tropicals different food that is made for them. I
> only feed my tropicals Nutra fin max.
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if it's a good brand then yea
otherwise the goldy food will be too low in protien and prob taste crap
tetra's have a finer palete than goldfish.
if you disolved a cube of brineshrimp/bloodworm in a cup of aquarium water
and poured it in when feeding the goldys there flake up another end of the
tank.
you will need to heat the tank for the tetra, and I would prob settle for 25
deg C
at 28deg C you get best results from lack of diseases with your goldfish
but you need more aeration as water holds less gas when warm
you also need to put at least a bit of some form of calc carbonate in your
tank to help prevent it swinging too acid
not too much as tetra are not very fond of that
goldfish need big tanks to dilute the copius waste they produce and big
waterchanges to keep water nice
tetra..... well big fish freak them
I have however seen VERY impressive setups in Malaysia that combined tetra,
discus and fancy goldfish in concrete ponds.
very very cool
but then again not your average backyard
otherwise it's a bad idea, get a seperate tank if you really must have
neons.
make the gravel a really dark colour (like black.... yes it's a f'ing
colour ok!) and the fish will be very solid and impressive in colour.
neon tetra's are great
If you want a tetra thing, that while not as pretty has a very nice neon
sheen as a baby. Which is nice as bloody easy to breed and cheap.
They are called 'white cloud mountain minnows' and being from China like the
goldfish it almost makes it a bio-type aquarium.
No need for a heater.... or the water quality needed for neons!
w0000t
:)

[Quanta]

"swarvegorilla" > wrote in message
u...
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> "Laura" > wrote in message
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>> I feed my goldfish and tropicals different food that is made for them. I
>> only feed my tropicals Nutra fin max.
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>
> if it's a good brand then yea
> otherwise the goldy food will be too low in protien and prob taste crap
> tetra's have a finer palete than goldfish.

I have checked the tetramin goldfish food...it is nearly as high in protein
as their tropical.

[swarvegorilla]

"Quanta" > wrote in message
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> "swarvegorilla" > wrote in message
> u...
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>> "Laura" > wrote in message
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>>> I feed my goldfish and tropicals different food that is made for them. I
>>> only feed my tropicals Nutra fin max.
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>> if it's a good brand then yea
>> otherwise the goldy food will be too low in protien and prob taste crap
>> tetra's have a finer palete than goldfish.
>
> I have checked the tetramin goldfish food...it is nearly as high in
> protein as their tropical.
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>

protien is different depending on the source tho
some almost 100% duckweed food are 50% protien!
which is different to a 50% protien aquaculture grow pellet thats mainly
fish meal.
That said I think the food would be great for both of them.
Every few days a block of brine shrimp or bloodworm would be a great treat.
and every week or so a feeding of shelled frozen green peas will keep the
goldfish regular
I also didn't mean before to keep goldys at 28 deg C!!!
they are of course coldwater fish
that said not many organisms that cause disease in goldys can live in 28 deg
water so in some ways it's good!
bit of a red herring to throw
aim for 25degC and all will be peaches
tetramin will be fine either one
:)