Ok First lets start this small tank with 2 cheapies, and let them cycle the
water, What does he mean by Cycling the water you ask, Read this Link
http://www.fishlore.com/NitrogenCycle.htm

theres two different opinions there on which way is best way to cycle your
tank.

Second Rules 1 inch of fish per gallon of water, This rule does not apply to
goldfish because they are a dirty fish and create massive amouts of waste,
if all possible or well let just say and unspoken rule, keep goldfish and
tropical fish seperate.

Another thing to Check into , Does my community have an Aquarium Society, in
that situation there usually always someone ready to lend a helping hand

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Ok My daughter, while at Walmart, wanted a gold fish. It was her own
money and thought ok...... now I think what the heck have I done lol.
We had a bowl but that lasted a week when hubby went and got a 30 gal
tank. Cool. But I went on a shopping tangent lol. I loved the little
guys. we had 13 fish and 3 snails and 2 bottom dwellers. Ok got it TO
MANY! learned my lesson there. .I hate to admit but i didn't do any
research at all before hand and wish I had. Because we are now done to
4 gold fish and 3 snails. I have asked the guy at walmart and a pet
store owner what to do. The amonia was to high. The guy at walmart gave
me testing strips and clear water for it. Didn't work. The guys then at
the pet store gave me some fizzy little tablets which actually seemed
to work. Wait getting ahead of my self ....Did I mention the fish at
walmart had ich.... Ok i'm going to walmart they give ich treament ,
which i did every three days like told to do so. didn't work. a few
fish die and then i was given stress zyme and stress coat. told to put
in water once a week. mean while during treatment of ich i changed
water no more that 25-30% at a time each time i treated. water is now
getting really cloudy. ok back to the problem..... I put the fizzy tabs
in and it cleared the water. next day the water is so white you can't
see the fish. I automatically put the fish in another container and
being curious i check the amonia and nitrates and so on. they are FINE
now. but you can't see through the water lol . so now what? Yes i
changed the water 50% this time. It's still very cloudy. In need of
help big time . please write!