I have a 55 gallon tank that I just started on Tuesday night. I turned the filter (topfin 60 hang on) on at midnight that day. Yesterday I went to the LFS to pick up some cheap fish to get the cycle started and ended up getting "a dozen" (which apparently means 11) common goldfish.
I just talked to a buddy and he said that goldfish are bad to start a tank with, because they produce some toxin that most fish can't survive in. Is this true? If so, what should I do at this point? I want to get a prehistoric dragon goby, a pair of stripped raphael cats and maybe a few red phantom tetras.
When I filled the tank, I put in regular tap water, added dechloronizer and ran the filter on high for ~21 hrs. Since then, I have the water sitting around 77 degrees, filter on high and fed the fish 3 times a day.
The water turned a little cloudy sometime between 8am and noon today.
I just talked to a buddy and he said that goldfish are bad to start a tank with, because they produce some toxin that most fish can't survive in. Is this true? If so, what should I do at this point? I want to get a prehistoric dragon goby, a pair of stripped raphael cats and maybe a few red phantom tetras.
When I filled the tank, I put in regular tap water, added dechloronizer and ran the filter on high for ~21 hrs. Since then, I have the water sitting around 77 degrees, filter on high and fed the fish 3 times a day.
The water turned a little cloudy sometime between 8am and noon today.