Moments before spontaneously combusting Mellie101 at
was heard opining:

Hi, please be blunt with me about this. I went to a local petstore a
few weeks ago and fell in love with a tiny oranda that they had in
there. Would I be overstocking my 55g with 5 fancy goldfish in there?

No. I have even kept 6 fancies in a 55g tank for years. The "rule" is one
GF per 10 gallons but with excellent filtration and enough partial water
changes 6 would be ok in my opinion (because I did it.). Should water
quality issues somehow become an issue down the road you can always remove
one or add more filtration and water changes.

It would give them 11g each. I am overfiltering, using a Fluval 404.
Was more concerned about the space they will have.

Give it a go! :-)

Secondly, will the other godfish eat the oranda's head growth? Does
every oranda have problems with the head growth covering its eyes?

Only starving GF would try and eat parts of another living GF. Something
would have to be off kilter there. My Orandas don't bother each other's
head growths and no, not all have the growth blind them in time. I also
have the water-bubble-eye GF and the others ignore the bubbles.
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