Pet Forum / Aquaria / Goldfish / January 2007

You can count on her posting yet more multitudes of crap to any forum
so be prepared......Afterall you patronize her and she still stabs you
all in the heart like this. When are you all gonna learn carol is
poison. Maybe asking big 8 for a moderated forum would be good for

I have a 55 gallon / 220 L freshwater tank with 12 goldfish in it (mixture
of blackmores, shubunkins and comets). Recently they started dying at the
rate of 1 per week, so we end up replacing 4 a month. The oldest are 2 years
old.

Hi, I am new to this group. It is cool to know that there is a group
out there like this. Anyway, I have a question about my comet
goldfish. He seems to be having issues getting to the bottom of the
tank, like he has to work extra hard to get down there. As a result he

Does anyone know when my 2 - 3  month old fantails will get some colour,
they are all a greyish bronze colour at the moment.
Thanks
Pat

Just found this group, so I'm a real newbie here and pretty much new to
goldfish keeping. Got into goldfish by accident thanks to my darling
daughter-she brought home some fish used for decorations at her high school
prom and after 4 of 6 died in the little fish bowl she found I ...

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Yet another question.  A lot of pet shops in our area sell feeder fish, they
say they are rosy barbs.  But when I look up rosy barbs, that's definitely
not what they are.  These fish look a bit like tiger barbs, but without the
reddish colouring.

So what's the general consensus on using undergravel filters?  Are they good
or bad?
Jen

I have had my goldfish about 2 years now and i keep them in a 6 gallon tank.
I have just recently changed the gravel in the tank and the water still hasnt
cleared up, its still murky even thought i have a filter in tank and also
have an air stone in tank. I only did a 50/50 water ...

I have a 10 gallon tank. I keep 1 goldfish. Now, I would also like to
keep guppies with them. How many guppies should I put in there with the
goldfish?

A few months ago we applied a 'pond sealer' as our concrete based pond had
sprung a leak.
Since then all has been fine with the fish & no leaking. They have even
spawned & we have young goldfish (fanatails & shebunkins) thriving in a

Hi guys in the time i have never seen this happen so wondered if it wer
normal !?
One of my goldfish had noticable missing parts of both its caudal an
dorsal fin however when i checked his progress a couple of days late

Hi i have a 3' x 1'  x 1' aquarium which is currently housing coldwater
goldfish however i am ready for the next step and having found new
homes for my goldfish i wish to refurbish my aquarium into a tropical
aquarium.