Pet Forum / Aquaria / Goldfish / December 2003

What temperature should water be to keep ich back?  I have a 90g tank which
isn't heated but stays around 74 to 75 degrees.  I noticed a few grains on
one of my black telescopes.  Is the water too cool?  Is it better to
Quarantine the fish I see with spots?  I would guess it is ...

I have a couple of Shubunkin's and I have noticed that they will
sometimes twitch their dorsal and pectoral fins extremely fast and then
swim fine. I don't think the current is the problem. It does not look
like it is pleasant to them.

I had several helpful replies about my black moor, that has had long
white poop and was acting tired for several days. Sadly, he died
today.
Here's the thing, though. Out of a tank of 5 small comets (1-2"), a

I have large fishbow with 8 goldfishs, I feed them twice a day. Anytimes I
pass by, they seem like hungry again.
How many times a day I can feed them ?
TIA

I want to thank everyone that was thinking about my situation, I managed to
find a LFS willing to take my stock, and about 95% of it... I took my common
GF, small Koi and 6 tf barbs to him today. Ended up with $37 store credit,
and he was willing to take my other fish as well. If ...

I'm guessing it would be all right, but I figured I'd ask first:
Are solid glass not-specifically-made-for-acquarium decorations OK to put in my
tank?
(cleaned first, of course)

I rescued this poor thing from an office where it was alone in a
filthy tank that actually had MOULD growing on the gravel.  The tank
smelled awful and the poor fish (not sure what variety, but it's about
7 inches long with fancy fins) was just sitting in a corner on the

I've finally found some sinking pellets for my goldfish
They contain:
Ingredients
Wheat, Fish Meal, Soya, Fish Oil, Wheatgerm, Bran, Spirulina,

I had posted before, I'm working with my first tank ever, a 55 gallon
tank with goldfish. I've been reading as much as I can, but not
finding answers to quite everything.
My black moor is about 4-5" long, and he's been in my tank for less

Sorry if this comes as a second post, but I'm a little worried, and
I've been off investigating!
Right, stats first:
Temperature is 21'C-22'C (72F) - I'm buying a heater tomorrow.  Info

One of my goldfish has I'm pretty sure Dropsy and is in a mess. I may need
to kill it myself as it's bad enough to watch.
http://www.geocities.com/tony2kuk/fishkill.html
I read this, any thoughts please on a quick and painless way?

The old thread was getting to long for my newsreader :- )
The fish is (obviously still recovering) but much, much better!
Her anal port is now normal (that happened almost over night)  Fins are
up & scales down, and she's sleeping an awful lot.  I put this down to

Is boiled (not distilled) water OK to put in a tank?
I was told that if I raised the temperature by using normal tap water,
boiled water & declor that it would be safe to put in my tank.  Is this
true?

How often to replace them?
I've had the filter going for over a month now (cleaned it out 2x so far) and
both sets are looking a little dingy, but the filter hasn't slowed down at all.

I read somewhere that the Chloride in Salt competes with Nitrite
to be absorbed by the fish's gills. Having salt effectively creates an
insurance
buffer against a potential Nitrite problem.