Pet Forum / Aquaria / Goldfish / September 2005

I have a problem with a black algae in my tank.
Its 180 lite tank with 10 small to medium sized goldfish...
Using a eheim pro filter.
I change the water ...top up 1/4 to 1/3 every two to four weeks.

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Just how do people measure the length of a fish? From the mouth to the tip
of the tail? The tail of a goldfish can vary from a fifth to a half of its
body and weigh only a fraction of its body weight. Is there a more reliable
way to measure fish?

New tank is due tomorrow and I have followed all instructions as give by
"Net Max" and Sharon Kalita
All seemed to be going well till I tested for NO3 and the levels have shot
up to maximum. I did a 25% water change and still no difference. I am

GH is very high (320 mg/L) but KH is very low (20 mg/L). pH is OK
(7.4).
What to do?
I have two common goldfish in 30 gallons tank.

My situation has changed and I find we have much less time to
take care of our fish.  
I have for sale  2 complete aquariums with stands and
4 - four year old fancies ( 1 moor, 1 deminkin, 1 red hat oranda, 1

I bought my 5 goldfish about a year ago.  They have all gotten large and
beautiful (they were 10 cent feeders when I got them).  One of them has
always been a beautiful bright orange color with only a few white markings
and white lips.  Over the past few weeks, he has changed to ...

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I have a 65 litre tank with goldfish, mollie and a couple of plecs.
They all absoloutly love cucumber.
I bought a couple of twirly metal things to sink it to the bottom of the
tank from eBay.

   From what little I've seen about it so far, it looks
to me like some people actually believe dogs are not
aware of themselves simply because they don't appear
to recognise their reflection in a mirror. To me that only

Help please anyone.
 I have recently bought some pearlscales and I am losing them slowly
one by one I have been keeping fish for a few years now and have come
across mnost diseases and have treated most of them successfully except

Somewhat rhetorical I think.
I was cleaning the boys yesterday (pond refugees) and I noticed that their
Ammo-Alert was far from it's pale yellow. It was up in the danger zone, so I
tested with the Ammonia kit and it was reading around 400. YIKES. So I did a

I used to work in a restaurant that had an outside pond. We were the
"Guardians of the fish" and loved to be in that position as we really cared
for them.
In time, we just moved the water by tapping the surface and the fish came to

We have a fantail goldfish which has had a problem with what I believe to be
it's equilibrium.  The poor fish cannot swim straight.  Most times it swims
head down and tail up, but it also tends to waggle sideways and upside down.
I have tried giving it the mashed peas (which it ...

I have baby fish in the pond.  From six adults (no idea what mix
of sexes I have, but clearly I do have a mix) I reckon I've seen
about five or so tiddlers, about 1.5-2cm long at the moment.
Any ideas how many there might actually be?  And from this sort