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Pet Forum / Aquaria / Goldfish / November 2004ammonia burns
This is the only thing that I can think of that could be causing my goldfish to suffer so and to look so bad. I don't know what else to do. I have been doing frequent water changes, I changed the filter cartridge. I did have to medicate the tank a while back with some Fungus clear medication. Did I kill my good bacteria by doing that? What else should I be doing? All my fishies are now all turning an ugly brown color and I think they are getting very sick. They are feeding and swimming ok though. Please help me if you can. I have no experience with gold fish, only with tropicals. Thanks, Sarah Sarah Navarro wrote: > This is the only thing that I can think of that could be causing my goldfish > to suffer so and to look so bad. I don't know what else to do. I have been [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Thanks, Sarah Sarah, how many fish do you have, what size is the tank. How much water do you change, how often and what are your ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and PH levels. Did you change all of the filters? If so you've removed your good bio-bugs. dont you have any of the tests? do 50% water changes or more every day. Add 1 teaspoon of salt per 5 gallons. Use rock salt with no additives. you must get the water test kits and keep ammonia and nitrites almost undetectable. in addition, you need 10 gallons water per fish, and at least one air stone blowing air into the tank per 20 gallons. 2 is better. Ingrid >This is the only thing that I can think of that could be causing my goldfish >to suffer so and to look so bad. I don't know what else to do. I have been [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >Thanks, Sarah ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List http://puregold.aquaria.net/ www.drsolo.com Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unfortunately, I receive no money, gifts, discounts or other compensation for all the damn work I do, nor for any of the endorsements or recommendations I make. The progress of the times ... such that imbeciles, who can neither walk nor talk, may be seen posting to Usenet. -- Lady Chatterly "Oh look, LC has a RL fan boi!" -- Iceman |
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