Empty biorb

[PagingDrFaggot]

We inherited a 30L biorb which had 2 goldfish in it in may . After doing some research and finding out biorb + goldfish= bad we rehomed the fishes into my friends garden pond where they will have enough space . Is there anything that will happily live in this biorb or am I wasting my time with it ? It does look nice but I don't want to give some poor fish a miserable life with no space and rubbish filtration

[EauRouge]

30 litres is too small really for any fish- how about a couple of cherry shrimp? Or you could just put some real plants in, it would make a nice change from a bunch of flowers in a vase.

[Marne]

Get rid of it and get a square tank , yes biorb's look nice but theres not much you can put in them, you can stil get a nice looking square tank 60ltr+ and have a few nice fish.

[sherbetpips]

it is twaddle that biorbs are no good for small goldfish, thousands of people round the world keep them in it.

If it is cold water (i.e. no heater) you could put a shoal of cloud mountain minnows in and they will live quite happily.

If it is heated then you can go wrong again with a nice shoal of small fish such as neon tetras or some guppies.

[EauRouge]

It is not twaddle. For a start there is no such thing as 'small goldfish'. There are young goldfish that grow very quickly and develop health problems if not kept in the right environment- by the time the health problems are visible then the damage is done.

Just because thousands of people do something, does that make it ok? How many people have even seen a fully grown healthy goldfish? There aren't many around.