Pet Forum / Aquaria / Goldfish / October 2004

I bought at Home Depot 2x 18" Philips NATURAL SUNSHINE 15W, 5000K lights for
my 20 gallon tank. Cost me $6.79 each. It has  a yellowish color light in
the tank, quite natural. Also, they sell for plant growing 18" light with
special spectrum, may be I should've get that one? It had ...

Just wanted to say thanks for such a good newsgroup, very friendly and
helpful :)
I bought my first two ryukins today. What is it about GF that makes us crazy
for them? My boyfriend took me to a big aquarium shop in the next town today

Recently, for my son's 13th birthday (September 17), he got four
goldfish from a friend. One died immediately. The other four found a
new home in two separate small bowls. The next day the second died and
this past Tuesday the third died.

A little history
I have a 36x12x15 fish tank with a fluval 2+ filter and air stone, which
had 3 large goldfish and a fantail in (all 4 years old)
1 of the large goldfish unfortunatly died shortly after moving house - I

My girlfriend, wonderful though she is, got me an Oranda for my
birthday, which I was woefully unprepared for. I previously had a
betta fish in a little bowl, and when he died my gf got me the Oranda.
I ran out and got a filter for the bowl, and I've had him for over a

At least with think it's dead, or dying. It looked fine a few hours earlier
but now it's just sitting at the bottom.
Here is the story: the kids won the two fish at a mini carnival and we
brought them home in ziplock bags. We've never had fish so we didn't have an

I was wondering if someone can tell me the behavioural patterns of young
ranchu. Are they shy? Do they like to hide? When does their headgrowth
appear? How long till they become comfortable with their new environment?
Thankyou guys

Thanks for the advice on gravel a couple of days ago.
So my two fantails are now in their new 90 L tank, I've added a bit of
gravel from the old tank in the hope it will help the bio filer get going.
It's great to see them with a decent amount of room!  But now I have a

So they are blackfishes now!

I moved and am not able to put the fish back in the tank for a week or more.
there is about 1 inch of water left in the tank, drained so I could move
it.
are there big nasty bacteria growing in a tank with no fish? should I clean it

Can a rotting dead cadavre, wrapped
around a filter intake, but not clogging the filter,
cause the biofilter to crash? Can the water get
poisoned but nothing shows up on the testers,

I have nine goldfish in a 4ft long tank.
All seem very healthy and happy except for one. About half an hour after i
feed this fish starts  having problems swimming and keeps floating to the
the top. swims down and floats to the top again.