HELP!!! my goldfish are bullys :(

[lilsmum]

i have had 2 goldfish for a number of months now, in a smallish tank,

anyway today i went and bought a 10 gallon tank, and bought 2 redcaps and 2 loaches..

my original goldfish have done nothing but bully the redcaps, to the point of i had to put the 2 goldfish back into old tank?

is there anything i can do?

or will i have to keep them seperate/return new fish to shop?

HELP!!!

Put them on the naughty stair?

I dunno...

lol @ MM

anyone???

no MN'ers have fish then?

Can't you just leave them to get on with it?

er no, cant just "leave them to get on with it".

as it turns out, after getting advice from somewhere ELSE, redcaps shouldnt be in with goldfish, so, not that anyone cares, will just have to keep them in seperate tanks.

WE have fish outside, every year some of them eat the babies, even some of bigger babies eat the littler babies
You have to let them get on with it, provide a place for the other fish to hide too... Like separate rooms almost...

awww, i care! but i have never kept fish so would have been no help!

I no longer have fish after hideous experiences of fish bullying. I had this one evil evil evil fishie which would go for anything else in the tank and attack its fins. Everytime I went out, I'd come back to find a ragged multilated fish hiding behind the filter, while the evil fishie had the swim of the tank, an evil grin on its face (ok - I may have imagined the grin...). In the end, after it had killed off everything else in there, I willed it to death and dismantled the tank.

I have had a goldfish and one of those puffy little fish in together and they got on quite well, despite not being supposed to - but then the puffy fish got a swimbladder problem and died. I think generally it's best to check what can cohabit before putting them in together: my local pet shop were rubbish and gave no advice at all. Generally, I think similar size and speed of fish work ok together.

I now have a dog - and have had more success keeping him alive than the fish.

sometimes if u leave them they eventually work it out by themselves, but you should only introduce one or two at a time. Put stress stuff in the water too. I don't know much about cold water tanks, but I've managed odd combinations in a tropical tank.
But - are the redcaps the ones with the fantails? Goldfish shouldn't usually mixed with anything ornate because they see it as rather munchable.