Shawnie

I have kept goldies in 76 -77 f ..they did well..and certainly did well at 74 -75...they dont mind a huge range but never over 77 ish...they are great fish and sadly mine were all taken when there was a short in my heater believe it or not...glad things are going well with your tank!

mirciulie

Thx Shawnie.

I gave away the golds because everybody here advised me too....

Plus, they were getting BIG fast and their metabolism is slow and were making the water dirty. And I had the pond available. All worked good.

I busted a heater when I first started this hobby (about a hlf year ago). I was reading about issues with heaters getting stuck on the ON position, which is not good for the fishies
There's a work around this thing, where you can have it shut down automatically when it gets above a set temp.

I think those goldfish are happier where they are right now.