Kelsta Posted September 27, 2007 Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 Hi, I feel silly asking so many questions, but I'm so new to this... Will my 2 fantail goldfish eat the eggs if my WCMM decide to spawn? They are all in a 143 litre tank and numbers are as follows: 4 fantail goldies - about 4-5cm each 9 WCMM 4 borneo suckers Any chnace of the eggs not being eaten? Or is that over optimistic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted September 27, 2007 Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 If there's lots of plants they might miss one or two. Goldfish will eat anything :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelsta Posted September 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 haha, thanks Caryl, that's what I thought. No worries, I wasn't particularly wanting to breed them anyway - just wondered what would happen if they did cos it would be kinda cool. Yeah we watched in horror the other night as one of our goldfish choked on a piece of algae disc we feed our suckers. We break the disc up but this piece was obviously a bit big - we had about 5 minutes of TOTAL FREAKOUT waiting for him to come right again! As soon as he stopped choking on it, he went straight down and started forgaing for more food!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ianab Posted September 27, 2007 Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 If the Goldys miss any eggs they will get the fry after they hatch :-? If the tank is really heavily planted some MIGHT survive, but in a normal tank, nope. Easy enough to breed the WCMM in any small planted tank though. Cheers Ian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilson Posted September 27, 2007 Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 short answer ---- yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jn Posted September 27, 2007 Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 The goldfish will eat the WCMM if they can Your fantails will be slow though so maybe not too much risk.. but I didn't believe it myself till I was at animates one day...there was a tank of relatively young goldfish.. and some WCMM's.. and I saw 2 goldfish in there that had minnows halfway down their throats! (the minnows were dead obviously but I don't know which came first!!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cichlid7 Posted September 27, 2007 Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 my 20+cm goldfish live with 3cm WCMM and they are fine :-? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jn Posted September 27, 2007 Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 Oh yeah.. I would never have believed it if I hadn't seen it myself.. maybe they ate some minnows that were already dead.. also they're much more crawded in those tanks so maybe the minnows coulnd't get away Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted September 27, 2007 Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 There is a difference between them eating adult wcmms and eating the fry. The fry don't move as fast Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsarmina Posted September 27, 2007 Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 i have also heard that they will eat plants too :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelsta Posted September 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 Yeah, my Goldfish are just constantly looking for food and will try anything - they even eat their own poo then spit it back out when they realise! Eww... They could never eat the WCMM in my tank as they are so much faster than they are. My Goldfish aren't really interested in them, fortunately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted September 27, 2007 Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 It depends on the type of goldfish. I have seen huge veiltail goldfish in with white clouds and they ignored them completely. The owner said the white clouds were too fast for them. Comets might be different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelsta Posted September 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 Yeah, my fantails do sometimes playfully swim up to the minnow but when they get close they just lose interest and turn away. Except if the minnow are eating and they want their food! I never really realised just how slow the fantails actually swim, as hubby and I staretd out with a small tank, but now that they have all that space in a 143 litre tank, you can see just what slow swimmers they are. And they all like to live in each other's back pockets - even though there's plenty of space to spread out now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caper Posted September 29, 2007 Report Share Posted September 29, 2007 on a piece of algae disc I gave my tanks a good cleaning last week. The goldies have 3 ottos in with them. Put algae discs in but don't think the ottos are getting them, goldies are I think :-? Caper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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