Pet Forum / Aquaria / Goldfish / February 2004

What's the general consensus on Biorbs for keeping fish?  I've just had a
two consecutive sets of minnows die on me through finrot despite my best
efforts, and I'm after keeping Black Moors........

hello is there anyone out there that can help me, I recently got a tank
18x10x10 inches and I now have 7 guppies living in there and with in a day
or so the water really Stinks to the point its not nice sleeping in the
room.  I have put a lid on it and my fluval filter runs ...

My 7" fantail showed symptoms of a bacterial infection some weeks ago,
probably caused by a newcomer to the tank. (yes, the newcomer had been
thoroughly quarantined--details available on request. At this point it
just seems like bad luck.)

Thank you so much to Ingrid, Donald, Mel and Gunter for their help.
My goldfish are all happy and healthy again!
With gratitude,
Cate

   My parents have two fishtanks too large to be placed inside the house,
so they set them up in the backyard. In them they had some 20 different
fish, big and small, that they took care of everyday. But this morning
when they went out to the yard, they found the fishtanks ...

I've got 2 goldfish, who live in a normal plastic tank with no lighting, no
filters, no stuff like that. Just a see through plastic tank thing, with
stones on the bottom, a little sign, and that's it. I got them when I was a
child, you see, so not exactly an enthusiast ;)

I eat one or two each day and they taste good. I breed them , so I
have always 1-2 for me and 2-3 for my cats each day.
Try it yourself.

Hi all - as my title suggests, very soon we're going to put in wood floors in
the room adjacent to where my fish are (but the house is contemporary, meaning
no walls, so it's basically the same room).
Should I worry about the fish during construction? I'm already planning to move

Hey all I was wondering what everyone was feeding their Gfs. I keep it
varied. Spirulina, blood worm, brine shrimp, krill, and goldfish flakes
right now for goldfish flakes im using wardley brand from my local
petstore. I hate supporting them because they sell dogs and cats and i

I've had my goldfish for about 2 years... the eldest one has started to turn
black, I also have a beta fish, a few zebra fish and a swordtail fish...
none of these or the other goldfish seem to be turning black... Is it some
sort of fungi? or is it just changing colours??

One of my goldfish seems to have a black eye of sorts. I don't see blood
though.
Does anyone know what this is?
--Tommy

I was OT from the original thread , sorry for that.
The old thread addressed live foods, infections in goldfish, ie tubifex worms
and aeromonas bacteria. The aeromonas species is of the types that are known to
be pathogenic to goldfish.

33Gallon with Aquaclear 300, well filtered and cycled (over 1 year),
I do a 25% water/gravel siphon once a week with 48hr air stone aged
temp matched water with recommended dechlorinator. There are
seven 1"-2" Goldfish in the tank.