Pet Forum / Aquaria / Goldfish / January 2004

i have  a 25 gallon tank with 4 small goldfish. I Think the nitrite is kind
of high. the tank has a bio-wheel and has been running for about 6 weeks. I
did a  2 20% water changes this week and the nitrites are still high. will
this go away soon?

Since the recent seperation of my chocolate oranda, my two goldfish
have been obviously missing her.  However, recently, they seem to have
begun acting normal(ish) again.  But I'm a little worried.
My goldfish has lost a couple of scales and is chasing the shubunkin,

A year has gone past, and some.
It started out so innocently.  The question "shall we get a pet?"
cropped up, and since we live in rented accommodation, I couldn't have
a cat.

I have got two goldfish and two others called chocolate pom pom and the pet
shop said to feed them once every other day but the food says 2 or 3 times a
day is there anyone who has these fish who could let me know how often they
feed there fish?

Hi, I'm new to this newsgroup, I have two redcap orandas, Hyper and
Active.
I had to go on a trip to new zealand recently and entrusted a friend
of mine (who already had a little experience with goldfish) to look

I've got the new 50 gal filled, the filter running, and am waiting for the
temp to come up. I put in the castle and troll and some of the glass marbles
from the 10 gal tank, and threw in the old filter (rinsed the gross big
stuff off with a little cold, non-chlorinated well water ...

Have a look at this link!  
http://hometown.aol.com/_ht_a/kmam1/MyPond/GiantGoldfish.html

We own two goldfish and on Christmas Eve one of them seemed to fall ill
overnight. The head became swollen, the gills red inside, the dorsal fin was
flat to the body and the tail was clamped. The fish has very restricted
movement and often falls over onto it's side momentarily ...

I'd like to replace my cartridges with plain ol' cotton batting, but of course
my Penguin manual says their cartridges are essential.
Would removing the carbon be harmful or not?
Should I stagger their removal (have 3 total in 2 different filters)?

I have 2 small gf, in a 20G.  They arived 4 mos. ago were about the same size,
one bigger now.  Smaller one just started going in (and staying in, I think) a
skull, the other GF can't fit.  The bigger one has been chasing after the
smaller one lately,so the smaller one is pretty ...

I've just started my first aquarium and have a couple of very young comets
and a common goldfish in a 10Gal tank with a Fluval 1+ internal filter.
I've noticed that after about 4 days I get a gradual build up of algae on
the glass and have been told to get myself an "algae scrubber" ...

My chocolate oranda seems to be developing yet another boil in the same
place.  I can see the scales beginning to lift again.
What product should I add to the water? I've been told that the stuff I
added to the water last time was Anti Internal Bacteria No 9 from

What can I do.. my 3 year old love this fish. It is on a 75 Gallon
tank with Ehiem filter. All the other Fancy goldfish seems to be doing
ok except for some fin rot on another one. He seems so lifeless and
stays at the top. I tried a few treatment [some bacterial capsules

Lost power last night, 55gal Aquaclear 500 did not reprime itself.
I figure it was out for at least 6 hours before I had to manually restart
it.
I'm worried about H2S or anerobics getting out into the tank. there are 10

I just bought a phoenix tail egg goldfish (currently under quarantine) and was wondering what other goldfish breeds are compatible with it?  I currently have a couple of very active orandas, one pearlscale, and a ranchu in a 55 gallon tank.  The orandas, pearlscale, and ranchu ...