Pet Forum / Aquaria / Goldfish / April 2005

my moor and my fantail and CONSTANTLY chasing my lionhead around the tank -
in fact the moor looks to be wearing her for a hat! they don't seem to be
hurting her but are pushing her into  corners and along the tank. They have
all lived together quite happily for about 3 years so ...

Any advice on the best way to clean airstones?  We live in an area with very
hard water and airstones get blocked relatively quickly with limescale.
Is it OK to use vinegar - perhaps soak them in it overnight?  Most of the
household chemicals for limescale removal are very strong ...

in the years of keeping fish including goldfish, i have experienced
this problem over n over again in goldfish that is. whenever they have
swimbladder difficulties, u know i do the usual:feed peas,starve it
for 3 days,strict pea diet,keep in shallow water,salt bath,etc.. But

Okay, so i left the tank cycling for a week, went bacxk to the stroe and the
guy gave me a new fish. it's only small, btu i figure its about right for
the size of tank. He was swimming very storngly in the tank in the store,
and seems relatively happy in the tank now, despite a ...

For the first time in many years, I've had a tank crash.
Short version:  Established a USED tank in which I believed only water
turtles were kept, but turned out that rodents had been using it for
more than 5 years.  Set up tank, cycled beautifully, added 3 nice

bettasngoldfish Wrote:

I've had a pond for several years with half a dozen Goldfish/Shubunkin
and a couple of Orfe. Each year I see lots of small fry in the
shallows but that's all I ever see, presumably they become tasty
morsels as they never make it through to the following year.

Thanks VERY much to the two people that responded to my "should I starve
my betta" thread. :-)
Thanks to the very timely advice from "nippyfish", he is pretty much
back to normal now. I also did a water change in the tank for him.

Hi fishfriends,
I'm still having problems with finrot and mouth fungus, although it hasn't
got any worse over the last 5 days. I've been treating the tank and giving
the fish salt dips, but the problem just doesn't seem to clear up. I dipped

Okay, well ebfore i came to uni i had goldfish in the pond in our back
garden. Both of them lived fine and never had a problem and i used to go and
watch them while studying for my exams.
Well I have final exams coming up, and i live in a flat, so no pond, so i

We just purchased a very small (1") calico fantail. I notice after I
got him home that he has only 1 anal fin, which is on his left side. Is
this a problem? What should I do?  Thanks.

I purchased some brine shrimp eggs from the LFS today.
I checked a bit on line and it looks like a bit over 1 tsp. of sea salt
per 1 cup of water, with a pinch of baking soda?
Once the eggs hatch and I filter out the shrimp and add them to the

????????????
--
Rhonda

bettasngoldfish Wrote:

Rhonda Wrote: