Pet Forum / Aquaria / Goldfish / November 2003

got a bio-orb with a happy goldfish and 2 minnows in it, got a question
about it's filter, they say it should be changed once every 6-8 weeks, it
cost £6 a time
when i was taking the old one out the other day i was wondering if it could

My little baby moor has had ich for the last 3 days or so.
Treated on Saturday with a 0.15 solution of salt and upped
that on Monday to 0.3. I have also raised the temp to 82degrees.
Today when I went home for lunch I noticed him sat at the bottom of

This morning NTL finally installed my cable connection (3 weeks late)
and whilst chatting, I noticed my fish sitting on the bottom.
Thinking "oh-oh" I decided to have a closer look.  After a few seconds
the fish started swimming backwards and was opening his mouth a lot.

Ah the joys of mothering 6 fish...  Well here's the LONG story..
50-55 gallon tank, 6 happy goldfish.  Nice pump, nice air stone, nice plastic
plants, 2" pvc tubing for fishies to play in (and they love it!).  Feed flakes
and float zuccini for food.  Clean tank out every 3-4 weeks.. ...

I know its fairly common for this to happen occasionally, but does anyone
know what actually inspires the fish to do this?
A few weeks ago, one of my gf's sisters goldfish (about 6 in a fairly large
tank), decided to swim from the bottom of the tank, upwards at great speed,

Is there any way, or should there.... be a way to treat fish water
with medicines,etc to keep little nasties from even getting a chance to
start?
How about a "one a day" vitamin for fishies, or is there enough

For topical treatment of Red Sores, Ingrid/Joann recommend
an  application of Peroxide or Mercurochrome,
followed with a dab of Neosporin or Panalog.
Is the Peroxide basically the one you buy at the pharmacie?

I moved my two apple snails into a small tank recently as I needed
to salt my baby moors tank. I am amazed at the amount of poop
these snails excrete - the water has turned cloudy in only 2 days!

I'm new here and I've had bad experiences with newsgroups so I'm
treading carefully here....
I have 1 Koi, 1 Ghost Koi and 1 carp??(it was sold as a carp but I have
my doubts).

I posted earlier on about my fish and requested info on quantities of salt
to put in to solve my problem of argulus.
People are telling me that I am overstocked... but when I bought the tank
(from a very good fish place), I was informed that the tank would easily

HELP ??
 I don't know what to do about the red sores and bloating on large gold
fish, long winged tail that is fringing.  he has been sick for a few
weeks.... Please help me with some treatments.  what should the proper PH

I have sand in my tank at the moment and have recently started feeding
sinking pellets rather than flakes, and they sit nicely on top of the sand.
I will be upgrading to a bigger tank soon (probably a Juwel rekord 70 or 96)
and am unsure about having sand as I am concious of it ...

All my frozen food doesn't come with instructions.  I've got a simple
question.  Do you stick it in frozen? I usually just pop in one of the
tablets and off the fish go.  I'd hate nibbling an icecube for my
dinner, should I defrost them first?

 I am still looking for a home for some nice GF and Koi... I am in Southern
Cali, as these would be for pick up ... Again, I have 5 common, 2 small koi
and a wonderful black moor, I will give these fellows away to a great home.
Also I have three other Koi for sale...  I need homes ...

Any info much appreciated.   At christmas we are going away for about 5
days, in the past my parents have come round (2 mins round corner) to feed
the gold fish and 2 cats. But this week we have been told they wont be doing
it any more as they dont want to.