Goldfish ripping out my carpet

[suicune]

so I have a really thick javamoss carpet... after I introduced a goldfish to the tank, two weeks later I found a missing patch of the carpet. Later on I found out that fatty is munching on my carpet. I thought it was weird how he poop all day long even though I only feed the tank once. So sad I had the nice carpet for a year now, I thought I read somewhere that goldfish don't like javamoss because of how hard they are.

[mnemenoi]

Goldfish will eat nearly any plant matter in the tank, I have even seen them rasp wood.

[aquabee]

Lol! I put one of my comet tails in my planted tank so I wouldn't have to trim as much. Works beautifully! :) Then again, there's no carpet in there...


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[suicune]

that little 2 inches devil yanked the moss out of the mesh. I'll take a picture soon. Make me just want to rip everything out and replant with some thicker stuff. He leaves my wisteria and anubias alone.

[Dien16]

Goldfish will eat any plant that doesnt have big leaves or if the plant is too tough

[SunnyHouTX]

Munching on carpet is not necessarily a bad thing. QT/pre-treat for parasites though.

[suicune]

It's bad because I spent a lot of time on that carpet
He ripped those moss off now I can even see the mesh
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[armthehomeless]

that little 2 inches devil yanked the moss out of the mesh. I'll take a picture soon. Make me just want to rip everything out and replant with some thicker stuff. He leaves my wisteria and anubias alone.

. . . for now . . .

[mistahoo]

Munching on carpet is not necessarily a bad thing. QT/pre-treat for parasites though.

GOLD!

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[troy tucker]

Sorry to hear about your java moss. Gooldfish are just like that.

[suicune]

I'mma rip out that carpet soon and plant something else. That thing eats non-stop. It got stucked in a section of the carpet yesterday I was about to rescue it out, then I saw it ate it way out. Now accepting donation for new plants. I'd love some duckweed I heard it's good natural food for these fatties

[wesleh]

Noo! You had a nice carpet of java too!

[suicune]

Maybe I'll replace it with fissiden moss.

[Dien16]

When my goldfish were bloated and floating around I just fed them duckweed and eventually it went away.

[suicune]

New plan:
So I got quite upset looking at the tank like that. I ended up re-stuffing my entire carpets. Maybe when the plants order come in I'll just change the javamoss carpet with a chainsword carpet. they are strong enough I hope. It's been almost a year since I see my tank without a carpet.. Seeing the white mesh come out is really weird.