Pet Forum / Aquaria / Goldfish / April 2004

my gold fish seems happy for the most part...whipping around and exploring
His new home
but there are times when he just stares at his reflection..
i'm wondering if we should get him a friend?

I have a 20 Gallon freshwater Tank with six Goldfish in there....The
Goldfish are the regular pet store Goldfish....Not Fancy Ones..Their
around ""2"" Years Old....I noticed yesterday that one of the goldfish
is getting very fat looking....When you look down in the water at the

I have a 5" goldfish who normally resides in my pond, but I bring him in for
the winter. This is because one year I found him floating on the surface
amongst the ice in January 2002 and he looked dead - no gill movement. After
half an hour of pushing him around in the bowl and ...

I have a new 15-gallon tank, set up about 2 weeks ago. (15H, 20x10x18).
I put a couple of feeder goldfish in last week. It has one Penn-Plax UGF
with one riser tube, air stone, and carbon cartridge. Using an AP30 air
pump (meant for 10 gallons) placed 12 inches above water ...

I came down today to see that one of my goldfish is floating on his side.
The side that he's floating on, his eye is -really- bugged out.
What could have caused this? And how can I fix this? He's one of my oldest
fish :(

Every year after a cold winter all my fish die off. What do I need to
know and do to prevent this?
Any advice or refereces to resources would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

I have 3 small goldfishes (1inch-2inch including tail) in 60l tank with
big filter and air pump. Water parameters - PH about 7, NO3 about 20 and
NO2 minimal (zero).
About ten days ago one of my GF starts to behave in stange way. She

Firstly, my flatmate fished out a dead fish for me today and left it
in a jar for my inspection. Nice. It had a hole in its ventral side
about 3-4mm in diameter. Does anyone have any idea what happened?
Secondly, I found loads of fry this afternoon and I think they are

I find myself with an empty 55 gallon tank these days, and I'd like to
put 3, maybe 4, really nice goldfish in it. There aren't any shops
nearby that I know of that carry what I want, so I was planning to
order from The Goldfish Connection. Unfortunately, it appears that it

Just bought 4 fish for our big tank.
One has no dorsal fin!
Its called pearl-something or pear-something.
Is that normal?

I work in a large pet store chain and today we recieved our delivery of
new fish. A Black Moor goldfish about 5 inches long ended up having a
problem none of us recognized.
History: I remember unpacking the goldfish because it stood out as a

I feed my birds dandelion both flower and greens. lots of vitamins there.
Can my gold fish enjoy the same greens?Thank you ~freddie v~

hi i have white worms in my tank i have never seen them before i bought some
fish and one died from i suppose these white worms and now they are all over
the are about 1/4 to 1/8 inch long they are very tiny and i mean tiny they
even eat the fish one of my goldfish's eye is gone ...

A few weeks ago, my kids got 3 goldfish at a carnival. We had a large mixing
bowl and placed them in there. We changed the water 3 times a day and fed
them 3 times a day. We decided to move on.
We purchased a 5 gal tank that came with a filter. I also bought colorful

Okay, my first GF died, I dont know if it was the ich or an uncured tank.  I
first noticed ich on the GF on the 2nd day, and bought quick cure, by the
morning of day 3 or 4, the GF had died.
I then washed out the tank, (when I say washed, I dont mean with soap and