Pet Forum / Aquaria / Goldfish / November 2003

Well...
With the average outside temperature dropping significantly below 60 deg
F it was time to move Hans, my tub garden red/white comet inside. (We
lost Frans (white/red) to a raccoon several weeks ago.)

Kept fish for years but this one has me stumped. 65 gallon with 10-15
additional gallons in a sump. Pump in the sump sends water through a
canister filter. Ammonia and Nitrites show 0 (new test kit too). Two large
Oranda's and two or three large java ferns in the tank. Bare bottom.

I had cause to return a fish to the petshop today, where my rather wonderful
salesman informed me that the little bug on the tail was in fact and
Argulus.  He removed it for me, and everything is now looking much more
positive!

I'm heartened to see that folks like this still exist,
and are driven to answer Life's Great Mysteries.
http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~bwilson/herring.html
I've ordered some extra sensitive recording equipment

Can anyone else get to Goldfishparadise.com? It seems to have
disappeared in the last few hours and I get some advertising
thing. :(

Theres a guys on freshwater.misc who claims his fish live happily
and stress free with him doing 30% water changes every YEAR
(with evaporation top ups) - YIKES!! He says he disagrees with
me 110% for suggesting goldies need water changed every week.

Having had many aquariums over the last thirty-plus years, mostly S.American
cichlids, I'm now presented with a situation about which I don't know
damall. My daughter (6yoa) wants her very own aquarium. Yippee! BUT she
wants goldfish. I know next to nothing about goldfish, and so ...

My goldfish is sitting at the bottom of my tank. he gets up and moves and
then goes back down again! I put in a power head yesterday and since then he
has been like that! my undergravel filter had broken down about a month ago
because of the air pump could that have any connection ...

I have three (five) fish.  Only the three matter in this scenaro.
The Oranda will go over the the goldfish, and headbutt him.  Then the
goldfish will give a bit of a butt to the shubunkin under the tail,
the goldfish and the shubunkin will have a bit of a wrestle, then the

ok for my first tank I did a terrible job of cycling it
(only a week of so before fish).
Now I am cycling the big tank and was wondering how long it
would be before I see ammonia spiking. It's been about a week

After a vigorous mating session my female goldfish left 4 eggs on the glass
of the tank 1 hatched on the weekend well 3am sunday morning, I tried to
catch it but I couldnt catch it, since seeing it the first time I havent
been able to see it again. I suspect it may have been eaten.

Yikes! I haven't seen this before. My 7" butterfly panda has developed
a hole in her left side gill cover. The area surrounding it is red.
She has been placed in a 10 gal. aerated hospital tank with fresh
water and 1 tsp. of salt per gal.

I saw a nice 5Kg container of Sodium Bicarbonate at the pool store
yesterday.
I'm wondering if I can safely use pool store bought products like this in my
fish tank.

These posts always recommend 1 teaspoon/5gal, but my DOC Wellfish
Salt carton recommends 1 tablespoon/5gal as a general tonic.
1 teaspon of salt per 5gal works out to what % solution?
Also, how do i measure Salinity in freshwater tanks (0.01-0.5%) range?

A few weeks ago I purchased my first Black Moor, it is quite a young fish.
After a week in a small tank it was moved into the main tank, with a light.
It was only then I noticed one of its eyes was larger than the other.
It kind of pointed to it having pop eye.  Treated with ...