coldwater = limited

[marto]

Hi everyone, i have keeped goldfish in pond since 1999 & tropicals since 2004.

when i got a new aquarium (IN 2004) i had goldfish first i wanted to get other CW fish but all what my store would offer is: Chinese algae eaters, snails, white clouds, zebra danio & i remember seeing rice fish.

do you really think coldwater fish are limmited, i looked around for weather loach but people said they were rare & hard to get

im from nsw australia

 

[marto]

anyone wanna throw in their 2 or 3 cents about coldwater fish?

 

[DaisyTattoo]

There really arent that as many choices for coldwater as tropicals. Yes weather loaches do very well in coldwater, and they do like to live in groups. I personally love them, they are very comedic creatures. You can probably order them online. There might be some catfish species that will do well, you might want to try posting this in the coldwater forum, they will be able to tell you more. Plus if you just do some reading in that forum, you are sure to find more species of coldwater fishies. Goodluck!

 

[hmt321]

I know a good deal about cold water fish in North America (hello from Alabama), I got into fish keeping by bringing home small fish that i caught on fishing trips with my father.

go to local streams and ponds and see what you can catch. Make a note on what species live locally, do some research and proceed from there.

keep this in mind, if you take a fish from the wild, it is illegal to put it back after it has been in an aquarium (or it is where i live) this keeps disease from spreading to wild populations of fish.

I am unfamiliar with Australia but i would think that any local fish would do fine in a unheated tank, depending on how big they get.

my 2 cents

 

[Roan Art]

Do you still have the goldfish in there? Depending on what kind they are (not fancy or very fancy), you could probably do some rainbowfish and/or gudgeons, ! They're all over Aussieland and they'll do well in "cold" water, so long as you don't intend on using a chiller.

They *will* kill fancy or very fancy goldfish, however. I've seen them go after a bubble eye. Was not a pretty sight.

Roan

 

[momar]

Some species of cories can be kept at (and prefer) lower temperatures. The best known are peppered cories (corydoras paleatus) and barbatus cories (scleromystax barbatus). Peppered cories get to 3inches and barbatus to 4.5, so they'll be fine with goldfish.They prefer temperatures from 65-72F . Actually I think most other cories can be kept in unheated tanks as long as the room temp is 72F or over.

Hillstream loaches are also a good 'coldwater' choice. Also various South American species - check where they're originally from. Amazon species are obviously too tropical, but species from Argentina, Chile etc are from temperatures of around 65-72F. The same goes for fish from China and some from northern central america (eg blind cave fish). As with what Roan said about rainbowfish, they'll be fine as long as you don't use a chiller.

 

[twig]

i think leoperd corys live in the 22c - 25c range >.>
They don't like warm water...

I had my water at 27c for my cardinals and when i got a cory he was showing excessive gil movement and whatnot so i lowered it down to 26 and hes ok now =)