Re: RC: water tank fish??

[Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>]

At 07:45 PM 6/7/00 -0600, Dot Wiggins wrote:
> Have always heard that fish in the water tanks
> would help keep them clean.  True?
> If so,  what kind,  how many,  how big does the tank have
> to be?

We have ordinary "feeder" goldfish in our tanks.  They
don't eat mosquito larvae (drat it) but do a great job of keeping the
tanks clear of algae.  We bought 25 last year & spread them
between one 3000 gal tank (our neighbor rancher's stock tank), a 300 gal
tank & 150 gal tank and I think a 50 gal or so tank of ours. 
Don't know how many survived the winter in the 3000 gal tank, but around
Jan. I spotted one that was about 8" long!  Who knows how many
others there are.  We put about 10 in the 300 gal tank, 3 survived
and are about 3".  None survived in the other two tanks. 

We recently put 2 fish in each of the two smaller tanks and this time
around they are OK.  Goldfish thrive in colder rather than warmer
water.  We don't supplement feed them.  Lif

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