Can goldfish and tropical fish live together?

Answer 1

Theoretically, yes, but be careful. I put a 6cm commit with my eastern long necked tortoise but my tortoise just followed it around for hours fascinated with it and attempting to eat it. Even though i have many small (2-4 cm) fish in the tank for her to eat.

Answer 2

The goldfish release alot of ammonia and may actually poison your turtle

I have a pond 250 gal, i keep 14 goldfish and feeders in the pond, also i have a redear slider that i place in the pond with the goldfish everyday during summer months. I have no problem with the fish and turtle together, since the turtle spend most of the time basking they dont spend a whole lot of time together, but make sure the turtle is fed before placing him in the pond or he will go after the fish. otherwise they are fine together. about the amonia ? i dont have that problem cause i change 20 to 40 % of the water once or twice a week depending the water quality.

Answer 3

Goldfish and snails can live together for sure! You just have to have a good filter, since the snails are really dirty. I still prefer to take care of the water snails and the goldfish seperately, and actually do currently. I bought two water snails a few weeks ago and put them in with my goldfish, and found several discoveries:

1. They are REALLY dirty and leave this weird brownish chemical waste that smells really bad all over the place.

2. They leave slime over the fish food on the ground, and the fish don't dare to approach it.

3. When i wash the aquarium walls, it is very slimey.

I decided to move the snails to a separate little tank with a little filter of its own, because they were really dirty. They eat a lot more than you think they will! So though you can leave snails and goldfish together, I prefer to take care of them seperately, if that worth it to you.

Answer 4

Goldfish and tropical fish can definitely NOT LIVE TOGETHER! It is a HUGE mistake to put goldfish with tropical fish.

1. The temperature! Tropical fish live in higher temperatures than goldfish, and you don't want your poor coldwater goldfish to boil!

2. I have heard that...hmmm....I forgot what the tropical fish was called, but you know those fishes that suck on the ground? Algae eaters? The cute, black, suckerfish-like-guys? Well, apparently a big suckerfish accidentally sucked a goldfish up in its "sucking mouth", but the goldfish was big so it got STUCK IN THE GUY'S MOUTH! A customer brought the poor suckerfish guy witht he goldfish stuck in his mouth to the petstore.

3. Sometimes the fish may fight against eachother, especially fish that live in different regions and are NOT supposed to live with each other....

So putting goldfish with tropical fish is an extremely dangerous thing to do! I suggest you do NOT do that.

Answer 5

It depends on the type of turtle and the size/maturity of the turtle. If the turtle is small and non-aggressive, sometimes they can share a habitat with fish. However, bear in mind that fish are natural prey of turtles. Eventually, they will probably catch his/her eye!
it depends on the turtle and the fish, if its a snapping turtle nooo. if its something like a quarter turtle sure. The turtle wont be able to put its mouth on the fish its so small. Also the turtle won't eat the fish if it is full alredy, so just make sure the turlte is eating well.

Answer 6

If you want them to live then i would suggest that you get big fish so that the turtle doesn't harm them because they will eat your fish.

no goldfish are small and turtles will eat them separate them

Answer 7

Turtles are very peaceful. The Goldfish would have to swim into the turtles mouth for anything to happen.

Answer 8

Although I've seen it done before, I wouldn't recommend it because many turtles will enjoy eating the goldfish.

Answer 9

No. Turtles will poo and piddle in the water making it poisonous for fish. Turtles should be kept in a vivarium where there is facility/place for them to get out of the water if they wish to.