Hey guys, I'm back in the market now that I'm in the working class again, and I still have my three survivors goldfish (had 6, one attacked and killed two, and he got rehomed for it, leaving me with the three)
They are still very small, had them only about 3-4 weeks, but they are getting the move now from their 10 gallon, to at the very least a 29 gallon, but I'm looking more into a 40 gallon or larger.
I've been poking around the local fish stores, and have found one place that sells "dragon eels" but after talking to their aquarium guy he told me they are violet gobies and they don't usually get over a foot, doing some digging online it looks like they only get to be about 15 inches in captivity so that isn't too far off.
At the fish store, they have them in fresh filtered room temperature water, which would be ideal since it's what my goldfish will be in, but doing some looking online it seems as though they can only live a short span of a few years in freshwater, I've read mixed results of proper longterm acclimation and breeding leading to the ability to do fine in fresh, but it seems that brackish is better for them to strive.
doing even more digging I have also seen mixed results, some saying that goldfish do very well in brackish water, which I haven't heard, and have also read that its impossible, which leaves me with no good stance on it.
If this were all possible to do having them together, I would want to get a tank big enough to suit all of them of course, and I would be doing sand for substrate, along with probably several sponge filters, since I have heard of eels/gobies being escape artists so I would want a cover, and some pvc piping and slate for caves to keep the goby happy.
So after all of this, my questions end up,
IF they can live well in the same waters, would 55 gallons be too small for two comets, one common, and one violet goby?
Would a violet goby do fine in freshwater?
Would goldfish do fine in brackish water?
And is there any more to this story that I'm completely missing perhaps?
Thanks for any help, I really just don't want to end up with another unforeseen project like when the store originally sold me 6 goldfish and a 1 gallon tank!
They are still very small, had them only about 3-4 weeks, but they are getting the move now from their 10 gallon, to at the very least a 29 gallon, but I'm looking more into a 40 gallon or larger.
I've been poking around the local fish stores, and have found one place that sells "dragon eels" but after talking to their aquarium guy he told me they are violet gobies and they don't usually get over a foot, doing some digging online it looks like they only get to be about 15 inches in captivity so that isn't too far off.
At the fish store, they have them in fresh filtered room temperature water, which would be ideal since it's what my goldfish will be in, but doing some looking online it seems as though they can only live a short span of a few years in freshwater, I've read mixed results of proper longterm acclimation and breeding leading to the ability to do fine in fresh, but it seems that brackish is better for them to strive.
doing even more digging I have also seen mixed results, some saying that goldfish do very well in brackish water, which I haven't heard, and have also read that its impossible, which leaves me with no good stance on it.
If this were all possible to do having them together, I would want to get a tank big enough to suit all of them of course, and I would be doing sand for substrate, along with probably several sponge filters, since I have heard of eels/gobies being escape artists so I would want a cover, and some pvc piping and slate for caves to keep the goby happy.
So after all of this, my questions end up,
IF they can live well in the same waters, would 55 gallons be too small for two comets, one common, and one violet goby?
Would a violet goby do fine in freshwater?
Would goldfish do fine in brackish water?
And is there any more to this story that I'm completely missing perhaps?
Thanks for any help, I really just don't want to end up with another unforeseen project like when the store originally sold me 6 goldfish and a 1 gallon tank!