Pet Forum / Aquaria / Goldfish / May 2004

Just curious how many of you give your goldfish names and, if you do, what
their names are and how you went about choosing names.
We have four orandas, one for each of us in our family. Each person got to
choose their own fish from the store and give it a name. My 5 year old

this aquarium has no identification on it but it is 24 inches long, 13
inches deep and 16 inches tall. does anyone know what size it is? i'm
guessing between 20 to 30 gallons but i'd like to know for sure. thanks!

Everyone on the list helped me out last week with my water problems.  I did
the 50% changes for 3 days, removed all the ornaments, etc. and everythign
was fine.  My problem fish is acting up again.  He was fine for the first
few days after the major changes, and is now back to ...

I am "hospitaling" a few fantail goldfish, and they laid some eggs.  I
took the chunk of algae the eggs were in to another tank that had been
pretty much idle.
I have seen 24 fry so far, and not one with a double tail.  Seems like

I have 2 goldfish, one about 8 inches nose to tail and one about 6 inches.
They are approximately 8 years old.  They are kept in a 140 litre tank with
an ehiem external filter, airstone & heater (about 22 celcius).  Nitrates,
Nitrites and Amonia are all below measurable levels. The ...

Hi, all;
How does one get rid of those *(%&! mystery snails that come in with
plants?!??! I thought I was rid of them,  changed the filters, sorted
through all the sea weed, did three peroxide dips on the fish to get rid of

I've had a fresh water mussel co-habitating with 3 goldfish for over 2
years.  Today I've come home from work to find the mussel's shell (some 5 to
7 cm's across) competely empty and a small piece of it's flesh about the
size of a pea sitting on the bottom of the tank.  Is it ...

well..Errol seems to be hanging out settling in quite nicely...
Frankie seems to be happy having a companion....both are growing at rates of
knots
they are no longer clinging to each other...the first two weeks that we had

A couple weeks back things got really busy at work, and I let the
water quality in the tank slip. The ammonia and nitrites stayed at
zero, but nitrates elevated to over 80ppm, and alkalinity and pH
dropped.

My mollies have been in the "act" of mating for the past 2 months.  Can they
decide when to "become" pregnant, or does it take a longer amount of time
before the babies are born?

Yes, when the goldfishes are big enough, I will shredder them, dry the
remains and remove the gold.
Soon I will be rich !

I have two small 2" golfish in a tank with a filter which have been
perfectly healthy for the last 2 years.
 Just yesterday, I noticed that the larger of the fish had a white
spot on it's head and this morning I also noticed a white chalky

Okay, so we're moving to a new house, and we've decided to give our 4
goldfish lots of space. We're buying 2 50G tanks. In one tank, we'll
have the two commons, and in the other we'll keep the two veiltails.
Right now, the veiltails get a lot of water changes. Their 15G tank is

I can home from work the other night to find a few fish eggs stuck to the
side of my tank & one egg stuck to the back of a yabby (fresh water
crayfish) in my tank. I thought it was strange its the middle of winter here
in Australia I didnt think it was fish breading time. Then again ...

Can anyone tell me at what stage plantlets realease themselves from Java
Fern, that is how big do they get before they weigh anchor.
Mark