Goldfish eat their poop?

[kyryah]

One thing to remember when cleaning the filter media, is to always clean it in used tank water or dechlored/treated water. Rinsing in tap water destroys the biofilter by killing the bacteria, and will cause your tank to cycle. This is ESPECIALLY important with tanks that are bare bottom or with little decoration, as there is no other major area for the bacteria to colonize, as they would if you had gravel. With goldfish it is important to do daily water changes anyway, but no point making it any harder on yourself or your fish than is necessary.

Kristina

 

[Flaringshutter]

Yes, goldfish do sometimes eat their poo. Goldfish digestive systems are fairly crude, since they don't have a stomach. Much of the plant matter they eat passes straight through, so sometimes they will, uh, go for a second round. It's normal.

 

[LiveMermaid07]

When rinsing the filter with tank water, does this need to be taken from the top?
When I vacuum the gravel, if I used that water it seems like that would add to the clogging, not clear it. *iz confused*

 

[Flaringshutter]

Mermaid, if you use some of the first water you take out of the tank, you will get the least goo in the water you're using to rinse the filter bag. So just siphon out some water before you start vacuuming, and use that to clean your filter.

 

[Lupin]

Crude but I just wanted to update my ryukin ate a 2.5 inch poo and I watched amused as it kept chewing the poo with its gills releasing clouds of it and it spat only very little particles left which means it just ate most of the poop of the oranda.:yuck: Now I've seen everything.:nilly: