Pet Forum / Aquaria / Goldfish / September 2006

Hello first time poster here, This newsgroup looks really informative so
I'll ask you lovely people to help me.
I'm gonna be moving house soon and I'd like to know the best way of moving
my dear Isambard (he/she is  a tank living, bog standard goldfish).

my two common goldfish have all of a sudden started to chase(harras) m
redcap fantail so i have now taken it out of the tank for close
inspection and found that it has a slightly off colour rear fin with
very small red veins in it and the fish also seemed a little tyred an

Are there any precautions I should take before feeding fresh red garden
worms (size 2 to 5 cm / 1 to 2 inches long) from my compost bin to my fancy
goldfish? The fish are between 8 and 12 cm / 3 and 5 inches long, and in an
aquarium. I normally feed them dried sinking food, live or ...

Has anyone had any luck keeping Chinese Hillstream loaches aka (Hong Kong
Pleco, Butterfly loach) in with their goldfish.  I bought some and would
like to try to keep the algae down in my goldie tank, but I have to wait
till they grow a bit, they are real small and my goldies are ...

Hi to everyone. My partner bought me some fancy goldfish recently as a
wedding present, and I joined this group because I am already enthusiatic to
learn as much as I can, and have learnt tons merely reading postings. Any
advice on feeding and tank maintenance would be greatly ...

Alright, so, I've had my tank for about a year. About 6 months ago
introduced a new fish to the aquarium (there was just one in i
before). About 3 months afterward, I saw this odd white...."clump" o
the edge of his tail fin. Does anyone have any idea what this is? It'

Here is a little background on me before my question.  I have 4 fis
tanks 3 fresh water and 1 salt water.  I have had them all set up fo
at least a year and more for the freshwater tanks.  I make sure thei
is NO cross contamination by not using the same net from one tank t

my small lionhead has developed a thick white covering over both of his
eyes, any ideas what this can be and what I can do to fix the problem?
None of the other fish has this.