Pet Forum / Aquaria / Goldfish / May 2004

okay, 2 fry (just over a week old) look like they are going to peg it...
They have very bloated abdomens (i thought it was some kind of parasite when
i first saw it) it looks like the skin is distended (not the digestive tract
though, that looks normal)so that there is an opaque ...

I'm having a water quality problem here.  I thought I would list out
everything and see if anyone here has any ideas.  I'm running out of things
to try.
I have a 40 gallon tank.  Emperor 280 filter, I swap out the charcoal

I have lost 9 goldfish over the last 2 months from my garden pond. I have
had the water tested, the results of which were fine.I am concerned that I
am loosing water and having to top the pond up with water from the mains and
that this may be having a detrimental effect?

About a month ago I accidentally dropped way more fish food than I intended
into a tank.  It was a bare-bottom quaratine tank with two fish.  I was
amazed/shocked/impressed that about 8-10 pellets were sucked down in a two
blinks of a eye (litterally) by one small 2-inch goldfish.  ...

No live plants.  Only trace amounts of algae.  Nothing that would "eat"
nitrates.  Yet with two more fish my AP Nitrate tester has read a
suspiciouly low nitrate number of 5ppm for the entire week where it usually
would increase from 5ppm to 10ppm nitrates with less fish.  I did add ...

I have A Redcap fish that is swimming upside down. which i was told is
sometimes normal since they develope problems with their swim blader. But in
the last two or three days his stomach is changing to a redish color. Is
this normal or should I put him in a tank by him self..

I have lost 9 goldfish over the last 2 months from my garden pond. I have
had the water tested, the results of which were fine.I am concerned that I
am loosing water and having to top the pond up with water from the mains and
that this may be having a detrimental effect?

First off I have a 30Gal tank with 3 4 - 5 inch goldfish.
About 30 days ago my tank became cloudy virtually over night.  I did the
extra water changes, filter change, and check the various CHEM levels of
the tank.  This was over a 20 - 25 day period tring to clear up the tank but

I have a fantail with a fairly stumpy tail, it's around 2" in body length
excluding the tail and I have no idea how old it is.
Can anyone tell me if there is any chance that it's tail may get a little
larger as it matures?

How often should the bulb in a UV sterilizer for a pond be changed?

I currently have a 40 gallon tank containing 120 or so 1/4 inch fry.
Thats one third of a gallon per fish. (one sixth actually as the tank is
only half full) massively overstocked when going by numbers, but surely any
number of fry have a much lower bio load than full grown fish of ...

Tank: 63 Gallons
Occupants: 3 x Black Moors - 2 mid size, 1 small (approx 12-15inchs of fish)
Set-up: Set-up since November 2003
Filters: Internal Fluval 4+ (with spray bar) and Jewel Internal

I recently posted about an apparent crash of my bio filtration
in two tanks.  Today, I tested a 20G tank 24hrs after a 80% PWC,
and was fairly surprised to see an ammonia reading of 1.0 (using
AP 2-reagent test, whatever that's called).

Here's my problem:
 I have a 20gl tank with one GF in It.  He has definitely out grown the
tank.  The local pet store has a buy-back policy, which is fine.  The
fish is quite a handsome fellow and it wouldn't be long before he would

The 2 goldfish are suddenly stricken with loooong body-length feces.
The weather loach not at all, fine.
It's been about a week now. Long black trailing things; they show no
stress signs, swim normally, fins erect and so on, feed normally.