Pet Forum / Aquaria / Goldfish / April 2004

We have a new aquarium - purchased and filled with fish last weekend (not
too many fish in the tank).
There is one small goldfish that appears to be struggling.  For the past few
days he has seemed unable to get off the bottom of the tank.  His front fins

Hi I'd be grateful for any help you could give me with an ailing fish.
He is a silver fantail about 3 inches long and has been with me for
about 2 months, fit and well untill the last few days. He has been
very listless, preferring to lay on or near the bottom and has started

just kidding....anyway..we picked up this
Tetratec IN600 aquarium filter - 50 to 100 litres
for £10....it's brand new...in it's box....from ebay...
we just hope it's good enough for our tank...

We have a fantail and shubunkin in a nice large tank along with an algae
eater, or we did have.
The algae eater has disappeared completely from the tank, there is
absolutely no sign of him.

Can anyone advise on the following please
I have a goldfish, around 6-7 years old, 4.5 - 5 inches long on his own  in
a 10 gallon tank with a fluval internal cartridge filter.
He (I'm assuming he's male) has recently developed what I would call

Ive had a koi for about a year now in my aquarium with my fancy
goldfish whom Ive had for three years. Well all of a sudden one of my
Lion Head's is missing an eye. And now when I just got home one of my
Big fat oranda's who has ocassional swim bladder problems is missing

According to my empty package of them it's time to replace the ones in my
filter, but I can't find them anywhere!
Did Fluval discontinue them? What should I use instead?

If so, what kinds are best?

We have a tank with three fish in it. Two RedCaps and One Fancy Goldfish.
One of the Recaps he is about 2 years old, ( Previously the most energetic
fish ) has for the last four weeks been seemingly unable to maintain his
buoyancy.

Hi All,
I have two big, beautiful goldfish, one a comet, the other shaped like a
comet, but kind of palomino gold and white pattern.  They are 2-3 years old
and about 6 - 8" long.

Our son has a Gf named Tuna.  He is about 7 inches long and weighs
about 2-4 lbs.  We have had him about three years.  He is just a .25
GF from Wal-mart that has out lived 6 other GF.  He is in a 20 gallon
tank by him/her self with two filters and a air stone.

After calling around to try and find the cream, rather than the ointment
that slides right off the fish, I found a store that had the cream. But when
my husband brought it home, it was "neosporin with pain relief". It contains
something called pramozine HCl for pain relief. Is this ...

My 15H tank in an All Glass "Black Seal" tank with black caulking. The
fish (2 small feeder goldfish) appear to be nibbling at the caulk on
occasion. I haven't actually seen one with a piece in its mouth, but
they do it with some regularity. The smaller one showed the bigger one

New pet store in town ( two miles away), no charge weekly water tests.
Good thing, BS died over night. DD was over feeding him again.
Cheryl

I've had a 15H tank running with an UGF for about 3 weeks now. 2 weeks
ago I complained that the water was still a touch cloudy and my local
aquarium store guy told me to put some "feeder" goldfish in there to set
it up and then swap those out for a couple of fancy ones after a ...