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Pet Forum / Aquaria / Goldfish / July 2008Goldfishes are sick - please help recommend medicine
Hi, I have an established tank - about 100 litres -5 fantails and the goldfish have been living there for about 3 years happily. No diseases. One of my relatives in her wisdom bought 2 other fantails and dropped them into my tank without informing me first. They developed spots on their tails and bodies - like white sickly bumps. I tried to quarrantine them and they died in quarrantine - a secondary borrorwed fish tank. The other fantails also seemed to get sick too. I put some generic aquarium medicine - and they recovered - a month ago. However the spots have appeared again - and this time some of the goldfish tails have turned like angel hair -strands. I went away for the weekend - and the tails seem to have recovered but they still have smallish spots. Otherwise they look active. Now what shall I do? What have they got? And what sort of food or medicine can I give them to help them recover? white spots = ich strands = columnaris, a bacteria. antibiotic food is good for this you need to have a heater to keep the tank temps steady. put in 1 teaspoon solar salt (no additives) per 5 gallons as a tonic to help them resist disease. keep the nitrates at or below 20 ppm for good health. feed high quality fish food, freeze dried krill is great. dont feed a lot of food with carbs cause GF cant digest and it just goes thru them out into the water to foul it. always check your water parameters when fish look "off" and do some serious water changes every day for a week, adding back the bit of salt. best medicine out there. >Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >Now what shall I do? What have they got? And what sort of food or medicine >can I give them to help them recover? > always check your water parameters when fish look "off" and do some > serious water > changes every day for a week, adding back the bit of salt. best medicine > out there. How much water changes should I do every week? I have a 100 litre tank. I used to do about 20 litres of water changes a week - but the goldfish died - admitedly I was using a Penguin water wheel filter. Since then I hardly do any water changes - and just let the EHEIM water filter do its business. |
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