Pet Forum / Aquaria / Goldfish / December 2006

if it's a good brand then yea
otherwise the goldy food will be too low in protien and prob taste crap
tetra's have a finer palete than goldfish.
if you disolved a cube of brineshrimp/bloodworm in a cup of aquarium water
and poured it in when feeding the goldys there flake up another end of the
tank.
you will need to heat the tank for the tetra, and I would prob settle for 25
deg C
at 28deg C you get best results from lack of diseases with your goldfish
but you need more aeration as water holds less gas when warm
you also need to put at least a bit of some form of calc carbonate in your
tank to help prevent it swinging too acid
not too much as tetra are not very fond of that
goldfish need big tanks to dilute the copius waste they produce and big
waterchanges to keep water nice
tetra.....  well big fish freak them
I have however seen VERY impressive setups in Malaysia that combined tetra,
discus and fancy goldfish in concrete ponds.
very very cool
but then again not your average backyard
otherwise it's a bad idea, get a seperate tank if you really must have
neons.
make the gravel a really dark colour (like black....  yes it's a f'ing
colour ok!) and the fish will be very solid and impressive in colour.
neon tetra's are great
If you want a tetra thing, that while not as pretty has a very nice neon
sheen as a baby. Which is nice as bloody easy to breed and cheap.
They are called 'white cloud mountain minnows' and being from China like the
goldfish it almost makes it a bio-type aquarium.
No need for a heater....  or the water quality needed for neons!
w0000t