Pet Forum / Aquaria / Goldfish / September 2004

I have a fish that has a rather large spot on the bottom of his body, near
where the two bottom fins meet just forward of the anal region.  Red
streaking also runs down those two lower fins, and is a dark blood red.
I believe I may have had a Nitrate spike.  After a 9 gallon ...

I'll try to make this as short a story as possible.  Years ago my father dug a
hole in his backyard because it was always wet there, so he thought maybe it
would be like a little pond.  Over the years is was sometimes dry sometimes
wet.  Well, last year my daughter and her boyfriend ...