Pet Forum / Aquaria / Goldfish / November 2005

Hi all. I am looking for some advice.
I have an oranda which is about 5" with quite a curved backbone.  Recently
it has had a tendency to sit on the bottom.  Because it is so round, it
looks quite strange - kind of teetering, head down and big round belly and

i usually just lurk here but am going to dip my toe in the water.
I had gold fish for years in the 70's & 80's but gave them up as too much
work. I've just gone back to keeping fish and in the past 3 months had no
dramas. We had about 5 fish then bought another 20. Unfortunately one ...

i'm curious to know how you guys avoid swim bladder? it seems like
everytime i feed my fish flakes or soaked pellets, they wants to flip. i
know it can be avoided by fasting on a certain day, feed them pea's and
Spirulnia Flakes.

I have one baby goldfish that survived out of 7. It's now about 3/4 o
an inch long and looking in good health. It's in the main airiated tan
but in a breeding trap. How long does it need to be kept on its ow
before putting in with the other fish ? I'm worried about it bein

Hi all...and thanks for all the great threads and solutions....
Do test kit chemicals expire? If so....anyone have an idea as to how long
they are good?
I test for:

I've finally gotten around to treating my GF tank with PP. I've put it off a
few times,as they always seemed to get better (Melafix, Salt, water
changes), but it never completely went away. This week Panfry's snout bump
was back larger than ever and he lost a couple more scales, ...

We have a large tank in which (as I've said before) we lost all our
fish. Among those were some rather nice, and very efficient, cold-water
loaches which were doing a grand job of hoovering algae off the
rocks/wood/etc

I have a non heated tank since I was planning to keep only gold fish.
Just out of curiosity can I keep any other type of fish there at all
without the fish dying due to infighting? Or is it completely ruled
out?

I have a 125gal  tank with 5 comets and a pleco....every time I have put
plants in, it has been unsuccessful.  Their constant rooting around makes
the plants surface and/or they chomp them up. It is a main feature in the
room it is in and I would love to add some color and texture ...

Anyone know where I can buy a 300+ gallon stock tank in Toronto?
I called Big Als, but they said they did not carry them?

HI, Recently my 10 Gallon tank started to leak excessevely so I use
that as an excuse to buy a new 15 Gallon tank.  Now I think this one is
leaking too.
My question is:  How much water should I loose to exaporation every

my goldfish has a ton of red lines going through her fins and her tail
seems to be rotting away it now has jagged edges and seems to have a
white fungus coat on it I noticed some ich the other day so I treated
the tank with salt but now this so maybe it's not ich IDK