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Will goldfish kill neon tetras

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

Yes! When I was about twelve years old, we introduced two goldfishes (we won them at a church bazaar) into the tank with a variety of tropical fishes. The tropicals were all dead (skeletons at the bottom of the tank) the very NEXT DAY. It was horrible.

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