Do goldfish need a HEATER? Please help.

Your pond fish are probably torpedo shaped fish (i.e. common, shubs or
comets).

"As far as Fancy (Ornamental) Goldfish go I have Two kinds of Phoenix,
Philly
Veils, Ranchus, Orandas and Fantials with double length tails and they are
all treated in the same way. In fact, the Fantails are left outside all
winter."

The fish listed by Tom are hardly "tropedo shaped" nor common.

jc

"Lucky" wrote in message
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OK thanks for all your replies- i now have about 15 differnt answers
haha. Most of you are saying no heater. That's fine. I'll go with the
no heater. But why is one of my fish just hanging out in the bottom of
the cave ornament? This has been going on for about a week. It just
comes out to eat. It has no other signs of distress... no spots, ripped
fins, or anything like that. The other two fish are fine and swim
around like normal. What could be the deal?


Maybe he's pouting because you're not going to buy a heater?

What's the water temp? They slow down when it gets colder.

A

jc wrote:

They live in coldwater, but hardly thrive. A dog could be kept in a cage,
but it
wouldn't be classed as a cage animal.

Goldfish has a natural hibernation cycle, dogs dont. While they are moving a
lot, but keeping them at warm temp year round is more out of the norm.

jc

Is a bear a cold climate creature because it survives in the cold
by going to sleep for months?

jc wrote:

They live in coldwater, but hardly thrive. A dog could be kept in a cage,
but it
wouldn't be classed as a cage animal.

Goldfish has a natural hibernation cycle, dogs dont. While they are moving a
lot, but keeping them at warm temp year round is more out of the norm.

jc

Also keeping fish in tanks isn't the norm either to their natural environment.

Is a bear a cold climate creature because it survives in the cold
by going to sleep for months?

LOL, you dont keep a polar bear in Florda w/o setting an enviornment for it,
just as you do not keep a brown bear at the North Pole.

Goldfish take advantage of their hybernation cycle and it is during those
months their eggs develop and their young grow during the spring/summer
times. The cycle gives them the growth and rest period as nature intends.

Yes, keeping them in a tank is also not as good as keeping them in a pond,
hence why two fish of the same age/size can have a drastic grow difference
when one is kept in a tank vs a pond.

Goldfish are not tropical fish, just because they can live in tropical fish
temps do not mean that is the best for them.

jc

jc wrote:

Goldfish are not tropical fish, just because they can live in tropical fish
temps do not mean that is the best for them.

jc

So are they coldwater, just because they can live (albeit, in almost hybernation
mode)
in cold water?

So are they coldwater, just because they can live (albeit, in almost
hybernation
mode)
in cold water?

Tropical fish like the upper 70s and will die when the temp drops into the
60s. Coldwater fish typically likes the mid 60 to 70s, but do go into both
the lower and higher ranges. Ever wonder why most of the aquarium heaters
has a low temp at 68-71?

Goldfish is most active when the temp are in the upper 60s and lower 70s,
but they are activeand eat when the temp are in the 50s, and go into
dormancy when the water temp drops below 50 into the 40s. Goldfish need that
dormant period to allow the eggs to development. Tropical fish dont.

If you keep your goldfish in the tropical range year round, you may not have
many offspring as you would with tropical fish.

jc