Pet Forum / Aquaria / Goldfish / March 2008

Howdy, let me give you some background first. I bought a couple of
baby orandas (1.5") for my daughter and a eclipse hex-5 tank knowing
that the goldfish will growth soon and that 5g is not a good home for
them, but the idea was to start small. After 3 weeks they are now

They are much more hardy than Goldfish..and they are labyrinth so they
can breathe oxygen. The water is crystal clear at last. The only problem
is the ammonia level is off the wall. I have to do water changes almost
every night, and even after I change like 90% of the water, the ...

I also remove the plastic plants, and decoration, and then I rinse the
plants and decoration with hot water.
Should I be rinsing everything in the tank, or just tending to my water
changes?

beat up to a pulp, other than another male gourami? I heard these fish
can be territorial. Should I put my small corycat in with him? These are
the only 2 fish I have.

Just wondering. Tropicals do, correct?

dwarf flame gourami? I've been feeding him once a day or once a night.
He eats like he's never seen food before. Should I feed him more often?
Is he starving?
He gets TetraMin Pro Tropical Crisps.

i recently bought a shubunkin and i have other fish in the tank that r
tropical and i wanted to know if it would afect my redwag platies, mollies,
or tertras .... my local petsmart guys told my that gold fish creat a mucus
that kills other fish

Should I just turn it on at night?

He was my favorite, and my son's favorite. I barely had him 2 weeks. He
had white dots on him, and the day he died, the underside of him was
turning gold. He was healthy when I got him.

and he's staying all my himself. He's such a friendly little guy, the
way he looks at me. :) I don't think he cared for other fish, and I
don't want any gourami fights. Did you know these fish were so friendly?

I keep doing freqent water changes. Over 75% every few days. I age the
water for a few days. And even when I pour it in, the tank is cloudy!
I'm looking at the aged water sitting on my counter now. It's crystal
clear. But the minute it hits the tank it will go cloudy.

My male Flame Gourami is by himself in a heavily planted tank, and seems
to be doing well. I've been changing about 90% of his water every night,
as he's in a small tank. Each nite I put in water conditioner and every
other night, some AmmoLock, because his ammonia reading is too ...

Maybe it's clogged.

such scaredy cats! They are so very shy! Why do they sit on the bottom?
Sometimes he swims, but then he goes right back down to the bottom and
sits stock still. It's like he's dead.

What do you think? Sometimes when I go to see them, they swim up to me.
I know what you'll say: "They swim over to you, because they want FOOD!"