Pet Forum / Aquaria / Goldfish / January 2004

I've got problems in one of my goldie tanks. For a couple of months the fish
in it have been sitting on the bottom a lot. This has become progressively
worse and they are now sitting for at least 40 - 50% of the day looking
quite sad. It's all my best fish so i am absolutely ...

Is there any difference between the salt sold for marine aquariums, and the
tonic salt used in freshwater aquariums for goldfish?
Thanks

What causes pop-eye in telescopes?  I now have 2 fish in my hospital tank,
both missing eyes.  They seemed fine, then there they were (or were not...).
I have one more black moor in my big tank.  The rest of the fish are one
oranda and 3 ryukin (90g, and none of the fish are full ...

Solid black Koi rare? I have never seen one until recently.. The belly is
silvery but the rest is black...
--
Tim... Lost in the state of confusion... errr make that California..

I've had this tank for about 4 months.   I have a PH kit and I keep
the water pretty near neutral.  About a week ago the water started
getting REALLY cloudy.  I changed the filter, and vacuumed the gravel
thinking maybe the filter would clear it up some.  I get home today

my oranda sits on the bottom of the tank.
and is also losing some scales on both sides of the body.
orginally missing one scale on the left side of body the about
a week later i noticed she's missing more and now on both sides.

Please help me!
I had 4, 2+ year old comets.  A few days ago the smallest one died
mysteriously.  I didn't see the fish after it died because my roommate
scooped it out and flushed it so I wouldn't get upset.  The others

Hi!  I have a 10 gal. tank with 4 goldfish.  They've been together now
for about 2 years (all from the same pet store purchase).  I'm
thinking about transfering them to a larger tank (20 gal?) and adding
a few more fish (possibly mollies or guppies or something like that).

While cleaning my acrylic tank, a rock got caught  in my  MAG - FLOAT
and scratched the inside of my fully functioning tank. I know you can
buff scrtches from the outside easily, but does anyone know how to
remove them from the interior of a full tank?

I have a community (5g) tank with guppies, female bettas.  I keep my
male bettas separate.  I've been trying to breed them and I put a male
betta in the tank.
Now I never thought this would happen, but the females started to bite

Hi Ingrid and all,
   I know this is not the place to post but I need your advice.
(yes it's me again, btw, Oscar and Felix are doing great thank you!)
I have a 220 gallon tank with 6 red devils about

my oranda lost some scales due to some toxic levels in the tank
I corrected the cuase of the scale loss. i noticed that the side that lost
the fewest scales turned a rusty color then went away leaving a side of ne
scales. the other side where a significantly more amount of scales ...

Well, since I usually read and post on google, I clicked on one of
their links to a bio-orb (I was bored...)
Anyway, there was a link to the BBC Norfolks Bi-orb.  And some fishy
pics: http://www.bbc.co.uk/norfolk/funstuff/galleries/fish/fish_01.shtml

My goldfish has suddenly started to "pinecone" ---- looks like dropsy. I
have no idea what may have caused it except that the water hardness
suddenly went up. The fish has resided in a bare-bottom 5-1/2 gal glass
tank with no other fish without any problems. Water is changed ...

This sounds off topic at first, then a bit spammy, then gets back on
topic
First, let me direct you to the other bane of my life.  Tea.  I've
been working in a tea shop for several months.  Go looky at the newly