We lost Pearl one of foot long fancies the other day, leaving Emperor all by himself. Until we can get him a new friend we'll be transferring Obsidian the only other largish fish (6 inches) into Emperors tank, Mum really wants to get a crown pearlscale to go with Emporer, but the problem is most are no longer then 1-1.5 inches. Basically their teeny, so had a few questions.

Will the smaller fish end up stunted? as Emperor's a big fish, and from what I've read the larger the goldie the more growth inhibiting hormones they release.

What about feeding? Emperor eats massive pellets, a new small fish would be eating mini hikari pellets, will that be hard to make sure they each get their own food?

Emperors lived with a small fish before, when Onyx was waiting for his own tank to be set up, and Pearl almost crushed the poor little guy, he ended up in a breeding trap just to stop Pearl hurting him, Emperor never showed any sign of aggression or trying to crush Onyx, I'm just a tad worried.

Who's kept big goldfish (12" etc) with teeny goldies (1"etc)? How did it work?

Thanks
Emma

I've had no luck in that department. Over-agressive playing lead to tragedy with one of my fish. Personally, I'd set up a separate tank for the small one until it's large enough to be transferred.

Dandy Orandas has some big Pearlies!

I'm in Australia.

Emporer's never shown any aggresiveness and he's doing fine with Obsidian who is a lot smaller then him, but a crown pearlie would again be smaller. Might see if I can convince Mum to go for a Calico nymph, you can by them at large sizes, 6 inches plus and she loves the calico colouring. She's always wanted one of the large 8 inch shubunkins that pet stores sell, I don't think she believes me when I tell her they won't fit in her tank for long LOL.

Sorry, Avalon, I didn't even look to see where you were from!

Hey Avalon.....jus' thought I'd mention....You have really GOOD names for your fish!!