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How Many Gold Fish Can I fit Into A 29 Gallon Fish Tank?

  • Hello Everyone, I just bought a brand new 29 gallon fish tank yesterday and set it up today. My question is how many gold fish can I fit into a 29 gallon fish tank?

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    Hello! First of all, you need to cycle your aquarium before adding anything to it. But when the time has come to add fish, you need to remember the basic rules for fish. Most fish are 1 inch per gallon...things like guppies, mollies, tetra's and such. However, goldfish tend to be nasty and grow fairly large so in a 29 gallon you shouldn't attempt to keep more than 2. I knowe it doesn't sound like much, but if you attempt to keep too many fish in a tank, you will end up with sick or dead fish. Whatever you choose to do, remember that you cannot filter a tank too much. For a 29 gallon with goldies, I would advise to go with a 50/60 gallon filter with good media.

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goldfish get huge -- standard rule is 1 for 10 gallons -- so you get to have 2.9.

G

Heck, forget the water and just throw in 1000 dead fish. Might as well do that if you listen to half these people who answered. Read on if you want healthy fish. You will be able to fit 2 young fancy goldfish until they are about 6 inches. Then you will need a bigger tank. You also need to cycle the tank before adding fish. If you try the 1" per gallon rule with goldfish they are all going to die within a week. That's the stupidest rule on earth invented by uneducated people. It goes by abult size too, not baby size. So 2 fancy goldfish it is. For goldfish its generally 10 gallons per medium fish as a rule of thumb. But your tank is actually 26 gallons, so its not big enough for 3. Tank companies measure the outside of the glass. A tank sold as 29 gallons will be around 26 holding capacity without any gravel or decor. A 75 gallon tank is actually 64. What a difference it makes to measure on the inside!

bzzflygirl

I wouldn't put more than 2 fancies in that tank, and no comets or commons whatsoever. You can probably put in 3 if you're going to get a really good filter and do water changes more often than once a week once the goldies start getting bigger. Also, please read up on cycling your tank as that will help you put your fish into a healthy tank and keep them alive and healthy much longer for you. You can't use the inch/gallon rule for goldfish. That rule is only for small tropicals like neon tetras and guppies. There are two major reasons for this: 1) A 1" goldfish is a BABY. Babies have this bad habit of growing up and getting bigger. And then you're overstocked, which leads to more work trying to keep your water clean, more work trying to keep your fish alive when they come down with illnesses caused by dirty water and stress from overcrowding. Common goldfish and comets should reach mature sizes of one to two feet. Fancies can be 6" to 8" on average as adults. 2) Goldfish have shorter, stouter bodies than tetras so they're a bigger fish inch per inch. They also produce a lot more waste per inch than even short, stout-shaped tropicals so the ammonia output from a 1" goldfish is a lot more than from a 1" tropical. Ammonia is toxic, burns your fish's scales, fins, gills, and lungs like shampoo burns your eyes. After enough exposure, it kills your fish.

ceci9293

After you properly cycle the tank, you could put in no more than 3 fancies or two comets, commons or shubunkins. You will eventually have to upgrade once the fish, especially the comets, commons or shubunkins, started getting bigger than 3 inches. The 1 inch of fish per 1 gallon of water is for freshwater tropical fish, not goldfish. The rule for goldfish is a minimum of 10 gallons of water per fish and that increases as the size of the fish increases. Once the fish get past 3-4 inches, you need to double that rule, and for the comets, commons and shubunkins, triple that rule. To determine a filter size, you don't go by what the box says it's good for, but you go by the amount of water it pumps per hour. For goldfish, the pump should pump 10X the water per hour of the size of the tank. So, for a 29 gallon tank, you need a pump that pumps 290 gph. Do some good research before getting your fish to ensure happy, healthy fish as well as you not spending a lot of money replacing fish that unnecessarily die. Good luck and have fun!

Venice Girl

It depends on the size of the fish. General rule is 1 fish/1 gallon. We use to have a 65 gallon when I was growing up and instead of having larger fish, we had a lot of smaller ones. It was really neat because they were like little schools of fish :)

cincywahine

The normal rule is one inch of fish per gallon. Say you have to choose from one inch fish, 2 inch fish, and 3-4 inch fish. You could have either 29 one inch fish, 14 or 15 2 inch fish, and 8 or 10 3-4 inch fish.

Trisha S

If you get something really heavy and press real hard maybe 1000..><>:)

PaPa Norm

1 inch of fish per gallon..not including the fins.

Da Ben Dan

yes I'm agree too! It depends on the size of the fish !

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