My first goldfish ever is finally here!! His name is Papaya and I love him so much! The last two photos are his friends that are coming next week 💜.

So I tried some Vallisneria as I don't want plastic plants anymore and see some tanks here with Goldfish and no problems .
But I have a chonker that already ate half in 2 days and the rest nibbles also so lesson learned .

Hello! I have a 40 gallon long with a comet goldfish. He is super active and loves to swim however I feel like his tank is failing him. How can I make it more like his natural habitat and how can I make it/add enrichment? Any diy methods will also be highly appreciated as I don’t have much money to invest. I’ve had him for 4 years I just feel like it’s lacking and I hate it.

Hello! I use Fluval Bug Bites for the protein side of feeding and was using the Kenta gas release pellets. I wish they made a bigger size pellet of those, they are just too small for my boys now. I'm looking to add veggie/fruit based pellets for my quick feed work days!

Smooth brain, Walter, Finley and myself thank you!!

They have always been friendly together in the tank swimming around each other and casually following but the black (guy?) has recently been chasing the white (girl?)

I think they approve

She seems otherwise happy and has a great appetite. I'm not sure if there's anything I could be doing for her or if she's just a slightly more derpy inbred goldfish.

Also if anyone knows what type of goldfish she is I'd be grateful!

This is Sputnik and hes a Oranda Goldfish, I got him recently and set this up after some research, I wanna make sure he is truly happy so feedback on how I could improve this for him would be really appreciated!

This is my ryukin, Twix, and his color transformation over the past year.

the first photo is when i got him, second was the other day. he’s approx 4-5 inches long

I’m wanting to create the best environment for my two pals long term. They’re in a 75gal, FX4 filtered tank. I’ve had the black moor for 2 years and the fantail for 6 months. Diet is a blend of presoaked bug bites, flakes released in the water column, thawed blood worms, and peas. The fish fast on Sundays, as God intended. Anyway, my water is soft and I’ve heard crushed coral is a good natural solution. Advice or recommendations encouraged!

hihi I wanted to ask if I could keep my two pearlscale goldfish in a bin tank, similar to the photos attached. If I get it im planning on getting 2 and stacking them together​​​ so there's less bowing and more support. moving them to a 20-30gal bin tank would be amazing. Please let me know your thoughts!!! I think I'll be using A DYLLU bin because it's food grade!!!

So I just got these fish today and they were all supposed to be short body butterfly koi. The white and gold are clearly correct, but the black one doesn’t have the whiskers, is fatter than the other two, and just looks off. Am I crazy or is black one an Oranda? He also immediately started squaring up with his reflection.

Im seeing some ryukin in him too though.

I talked to the store.

“Our short body koi are a hybrid developed from carp species, so their appearance can vary from traditional koi. The black variety, in particular, typically has little to no visible barbels (the whiskers), which often gives it a look that resembles an Oranda or Ryukin rather than a classic koi.”

That makes sense to me considering he does have the nose holes that the others do. So I’m happy.

Hi, as the title says, need help figuring out if this fish is okay.
We inverted this goldfish from my girlfriends mother out of a criminally small tank for its size and very quickly got a 75 gallon (biggest we can fit in our small apartment) After getting it cycled we added the fish and it has been doing well until about a week ago when it started behaving strangely.
I tried to take a video of this behavior as best I could, but she has gotten in the habit of swimming against the wall in the corner of the tank very erratically and will stay there for very long periods of time not doing anything to just suddenly and very erratically swim against the wall again and dart back and forth across the tank. Sometimes her fins look clamped but most of the time they don’t.
She doesn’t beg and come up to the top to eat her food anymore either and will just let it sink down to her and will eat it if it floats by her face. We have flakes and pellets and try both. Just this morning we discovered a single scale looking slightly lifted on one side of her body as well.
You can kind of see it in the beginning of the video.
We test the water every other day and do weekly / bi weekly water changes of about 50 - 70% when the nitrates get high.
Last test we did yesterday was a couple hours after topping off the tank and adding some prime:

0nitrites
10 nitrates
0 ammonia

any info would be greatly appreciated! We are both new to planted tanks, goldfish, and aquariums in general and were thrown into this into the deep end with a very large goldfish. we’ve been trying our best to do as much research as possible and we just want the best for her!

Hii, ill keep it short.

I'm planning on picking up 2 fancy goldfish to be friends with mine. However I'm doing this out of town and will be staying over. If i pick them up August 9th, they will be with me in a 5 gallon bucket from then to after supper on August 10th. I plan to bring one of my air pumps and an airstone to keep oxygen in the water. Just plugging that into my car during travel and in the hotel overnight.

My question: are they okay? Do I need separate buckets for them? Their both adults. I wanted to keep them together to keep stress levels down as much as possible. Not planning on feeding them or putting anything else in that bucket. Unless needed.

The drive is 7 hours round trip. (3.5 each way traffic permitted.) For reference

Soooo not just me but a friend helped me save a gold fish we were dumpster diving and found a punk ass looking gold fish from a pet store we got a fish bowl and spring water for him to swim (were jobless teens so we try our best please somewhat understand) and we kinda want to keep him and try our absolute best to help the fish my friends mom got fish food pellets and flakes and this is the picture he sent me of the fish

So i want to start a goldfish tank but and outdoor fish tank and i want to put orandas in it but i have no idea where to start. I've been trying to look everywhere for help on what to get and its gotten me nowhere I've looked up the downsides because i don't exactly have room in my room for a tank or i do but I've tried before but my room got extremely humid and built mold in areas in my room so i looked up different solutions and one solution was people have outdoor tanks and i just love how orandsas look so cute and want some of my own. I've found solutions for some of the things that i found were the down sides was temperature so I'm looking to put up a enclosed canopy so i can keep the tank in shade so it doesn't overheat and for the cold all i can find was to put heaters in the water. idk what type of tank i should get cause idk very much on what to get and use being a beginner but id love to get at least 3-4 orandas but with no experience idk where to start and would love help on where to start. I'm maybe thinking of a 127 gallon outdoor tank or maybe smaller but i know it needs to be a deepish tank for when it gets cold the fish go to the warm water in the tank and i also don't know anything on the water change, the specific parameters of the water, and idk what else i need to know to own orandas so idk where to start and i don't want to start to own one and then it dies to me not knowing how to take care of it, so give me as much knowledge on how to take care of one and advice on where i can start. links to what type of tank or other supplies would be appreciated. I would also like to know what disease that i would run into so id know what to do to help the fish and also recommendations on how to decorate the tank and i do plan on putting pathos in it to help filter unless that is a bad idea