"Gfishery" wrote in message
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"D.L." wrote in message
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Please think about getting a separate tank that is just for your
goldfish -- perhaps a 20 gallon and then keep the population at 1 oranda
and 1 moor.

Do Orandas get along better with Moors than they do with Fantails?
My Oranda is not getting along with my Fantails


Unfortunately IMO I think compatible tankmates is more a matter of the
temperments of the individual fish you put together, rather than their
species. That being said I put 2 black moors into an established group of 2
orandas and a lion head. Almost right away the moors were bullying the
others - so I took them back out. Growing up together and comparable size I
would say are considerations.
Bill

Though there are definitely poorly run lfs's and chain pet stores that don't
properly tend to their tanks, and hire incompetent employees. I try to give
them the benefit of the doubt, and assume I've won some kind of morbid
lottery and just happened to be the first to see it. I always make a point
of telling someone who can take care of it. Once after this very scenario
happened, I return to the same store about a week later. In this case it
was a very large Oscar. When I returned the skeleton of that same fish was
lying on the bottom of the tank. Needless to say I never went back.
(actually I did buy crickets there a couple times because it was walking
distance from my house) =)

"Gfishery" wrote in message
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"D.L." wrote:
The Oranda and Fantail I bought were from the same tank at the LFS, but
they don't appear to get along.

I was at the LFS recently, and there was a dead black moor at the bottom
of the tank,
and another black moor was nibbling away at it. Disgusting, to say the
least.
Why don't the LFS employees take notice of these things before customers
do?