Pet Forum / Aquaria / Goldfish / September 2004

I set up a Juwel Rio 400ltr on friday.
I used about 40% of our pond water and added 6 plants fom the pond.
I did a 20% water change on tuesday.
The latest test kit readings are PH 7.0

I was really shocked to find how much waste had built up in the gravel at
the bottom of the tank.  Whenever I change water I use the syphon to suck up
the fish poo, and I thought I was doing a decent job.  But setting up a new
tank I transferred some of the gravel from the old ...

I have a tank that previously had fish in it that had fungus, I was
wondering if anyone had any tips about cleaning the tank so I could
start over with new fish.

One of my fantails, Big Fat Percy, has been suffering with swim bladder
problems and I have read up on how to treat it, tried the treatments but all
to no avail.  He is obviously suffering and while he's my favourite little
chap I think it might be kindest to put him out of his ...

So I noticed that one of my veiltails looked a bit lethargic. Because
of the size of their tank (50G) and the fact that there are only two
of them, I've only been doing water changes every 2 weeks. Apparently
I slipped a little, and the nitrate levels went up to between 20 and

I recently set up my fish tank about 3 weeks ago.  All of a sudden, 3
days ago fishes started dying in the tank due to high level of
ammonia.  I have to change water 2 times a day now just to bring down
the ammonia.  I just started using Ammo-Rock.  I got the 10Lb. bag.

Do Goldfish have a social hierarchy/Scooling?
I recently moved five GF from a 55 to a 75. I had cycled the new filter in
the old tank for a few weeks and moved a bit of gravel to the new tank. But
I wanted to be sure I did not have any ammonia/nitrate spikes, so I moved

Oh what fun, forst Frances, now it looks like we are getting Jean visiting
us. With Frances we lost power for almost a week. I have a small battery
supply with a power inverter that I used to power my tank filter pump so as
to get some air circulating in the tank for my Goldfish.

A few months ago, all three of my friend's goldfish mysteriously died.
Their water levels were ok, and they all went within a few days of
each other. My friend considers himself a very responsible pet owner
and took it pretty hard, and gave up on fish.

   I sure hope someone can help me with this because I don't know what else
to do for my sick goldfish. This fish is about 4 years old and has been
living with this condition for nearly a year now. This fish has big red
(blood?) streaks going from it's body all the way down to the ...

When SO got home with our latest two shubunkins from the garden centre, I
noticed one looked not quite normal.
This one apparently was picked by a member of staff.
He (or she, they're only 2 inches young) seemed a bit mishappen and

Hi,I have 2 fancy goldfish in  my 30 gallon tank along with
1 pearl scale and 1 lionhead.
The 2 GF are bigger than the others.When I came home today
the lionhead had both eyes missing.

i heard somewhere that snail pooh is poisonous to goldfish and doesn`t break
down in the same manner and can foul the water... is this true?

Thanks for the previous replies.
The 180 litre tank is all set up and working nicely. The fish are all happy.
I have checked the amonia, nitrate, nitrite, ph.
the amonia after one week is now 0.75 and I have changed 25% of the water.

Having successfully kept my first Black Moor alive and well for a month it
was time to add another to the tank.
Not wishing to introduce unforeseen problems with the new fish I decided to
quarantine for a few days.