Addicted to Bubbies

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Googley Eyes, our bubbie with one celestial eye and one telescope eye.

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Experience with Chinese Algae Eater (CAE) & Goldfish

Summary:  Do not put a Chinese Algae Eater in with your goldfish, do your independent research from many sources, not just some kid at the pet store who thinks they're an expert.

My wife and I are relatively new to actually owning Goldfish, this Chinese New Year will mark our 1 year mark of owning our Comet (Big Bubby).  At any rate, we own two 37 Gal tanks, 1 with small goldfish (1-2 inches), I'll refer to this as the small tank and 1 I'll refer to as the big tank, another 37 Gal tank with 3 medium (2-3 inch) goldfish in it.

So, in order to keep it clean we were recommended to get these chinese algae eaters.  We were told that the pleco will eat our fish but his one will not.  So we bought 2, 1 per tank.  For about 2 weeks everything was fine.  Then today I woke up and went over to feed the fish in the small tank, and noticed Mr. Wiggles (the CAE in that tank) was attacking them and chasing them all over the tank.

Well, in the big tank, Gus (our medium calico Ryukin) runs the show.  He chases Mr. Wobbles (the CAE in that tank) all over and keeps him in check.  So, in order to create a quick fix to the situation, I swapped algae eaters.  Right after I dropped Mr. Wiggles (the aggressive CAE) into the large tank, he went after Birdie, Gus's (what we assume to be) lover girl, another medium calico Ryukin.  Right as Mr. Wiggles tried to bite Birdie, Gus swam over and bit him.  It was a pretty spectacular sight.  Mr. Wiggles, from what it appeared, shit his pants and swam off and hid for the rest of the day.  Mr. Wobbles, lived fine in the small tank, because he was used to being bullied by Gus, so he didn't seem to want to be anywhere near the fish in there.

After a few phone calls and some googling, I decided to get rid of the CAE's all together.  So I went to petco where I bought some ghost shrimp and Gold Dojo Loaches who are now on trial in the tanks.  A nice note, is that petco is taking my CAEs and finding them a home where they will interact with the fish a little better.

The main problem is, is that Goldfish, especially fancies are slow.  The CAE is really fast.  So, it's hard for them to avoid him and once he got that taste for goldfish, his aggression level went through the roof.  Even though Gus pacified him, we don't want to wake up one day and find one of our fish being eaten by Mr. Wiggles when he gets bigger.

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Sea side by Brunna de Souza on Flickr.

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So far this has given a lot of good advice for people who are contemplating building a pond.   Covers topics like, preparation, construction and adding fish.

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Goldfishtree

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Bubbie genealogy.

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We're not the only bubbie lovers in this house

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We just submitted our application to join the Cascade Koi & Goldfish Club aka "Bubbie Club."  We're very excited.

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An interesting incident from 1930’s Imperial Japan.

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Poor goldies!

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Hacking Bubbies: Swim Bladder Issues

Is your goldfish swimming upside down?  Having trouble swimming to the bottom?  Or can't seem to make it to the top of the tank?  Floating belly up but looks alive?

Try feeding him/her a green pea.  Just run a little bit of cold water over the frozen pea so it thaws out, peel the shell off it and break it into pieces small enough for the fish to eat. I'm not going to go into why this works, but it does.

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Ranchus

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I like the right one (: 

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I like the left one O:

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Some good info on fish, tons of uploads.

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The Telescope Goldfish are not considered as good fish for beginner. This is not because they lack general hardiness, but rather because of their more extremely telescopic eyes. Besides causing them to have poor vision, their eyes are susceptible to injury and infection. They are very demanding of water quality and temperature. They can do well in a goldfish bowl, an aquarium, or even a pond if the environment is safe, well maintained, and have tank mates that are not competitive. When it comes to feeding, they will not thrive well with fast competitive tank mates. 

  We came across this blog posting while searching for answers to why our telescope eye fish tend to have more trouble than our others.  We've lost all three of our telescope eyed fish that we've had.  They died from infection or disease, even when the other fish also were exposed and contracted the same illnesses.  For some reason the telecope eyed fish never recovered and eventually pass away, while the non-bubbly-eyed fish make full recoveries. 

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What do you feed you goldies; Flakes? Pellets? Whatever’s cheapest? Many people buy flake food thinking that it is an aquatic staple that’s been around for years, so it must be good, right? Flakes are actually among the worst things you could feed a goldfish. Flakes are a conglomerate of fish meal...

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Going to get it ready for spring and fill it with goldfish and small koi.

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