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Posted by swarvegorilla on August 18, 2007, 11:57 pm
Please log in for more thread options just water change... no more than 50% at a time
keep goldfish and ya have to keep up the water changes
solution to polution is dilution!
> Hi all,
>
> Just got some new goldfish. My wife and I took our daughter to a Japanese
> "summer festival" up in Chicago and my daughter "won" a goldfish in a game
> there. Well, that meant a tank ("starter kit" actually), food, and
> chlorine
> remover. Then my wife wanted us to get some more fish so the one "won't
> be
> lonely" so we bought two more (comets, about 1 1/2" long--the "prize" fish
> was similar size and shape, but dark along the back, light along the sides
> and red/orange in the belley).
>
> Well, come to find out that the "tank" is way, way too small for three
> goldfish (actually more "goldfish bowl" sized, just rectangular). So it's
> off to the store today to pick up a more appropriate tank (a 29 gallon
> "starter kit" with filter, heater, hood and light, and thermometer). I
> also
> picked up more chlorine remover, a set of water test strips with
> individual
> pads to test pH, alkalinity, total chlorine, total hardness, nitrite, and
> nitrate levels, and about 35 lbs of gravel.
>
> So I set up the tank, fill it, test the water (pH between 7.8 and 8.4,
> total
> alkalinity about 180 KH ppm, total chlorine 0, total Harness about 150 GH
> ppm, nitrites 0, and nitrates 0), and start the filter and pump running to
> let the system cycle for a few days before I move the two remaining fish
> (the "prize" fish promptly died on us) into it.
>
> Well the very evening I get it set up, my daughter (who is about 3 1/2)
> pours some of her milk, and some of a "yogurt drink" into the tank.
>
> Is there anything I can do to fix this short of emptying the tank, taking
> everything apart, and starting over?
>
> --
> David L. Burkhead "Dum Vivimus Vivamus"
> mailto:dburkhead@sff.net "While we live, let us live."
> My webcomic Cold Servings
> http://www.coldservings.com -- Back from hiatus!
> Updates Wednesdays
>
>
>
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> Just got some new goldfish. My wife and I took our daughter to a Japanese
> "summer festival" up in Chicago and my daughter "won" a goldfish in a game
> there. Well, that meant a tank ("starter kit" actually), food, and
> chlorine
> remover. Then my wife wanted us to get some more fish so the one "won't
> be
> lonely" so we bought two more (comets, about 1 1/2" long--the "prize" fish
> was similar size and shape, but dark along the back, light along the sides
> and red/orange in the belley).
>
> Well, come to find out that the "tank" is way, way too small for three
> goldfish (actually more "goldfish bowl" sized, just rectangular). So it's
> off to the store today to pick up a more appropriate tank (a 29 gallon
> "starter kit" with filter, heater, hood and light, and thermometer). I
> also
> picked up more chlorine remover, a set of water test strips with
> individual
> pads to test pH, alkalinity, total chlorine, total hardness, nitrite, and
> nitrate levels, and about 35 lbs of gravel.
>
> So I set up the tank, fill it, test the water (pH between 7.8 and 8.4,
> total
> alkalinity about 180 KH ppm, total chlorine 0, total Harness about 150 GH
> ppm, nitrites 0, and nitrates 0), and start the filter and pump running to
> let the system cycle for a few days before I move the two remaining fish
> (the "prize" fish promptly died on us) into it.
>
> Well the very evening I get it set up, my daughter (who is about 3 1/2)
> pours some of her milk, and some of a "yogurt drink" into the tank.
>
> Is there anything I can do to fix this short of emptying the tank, taking
> everything apart, and starting over?
>
> --
> David L. Burkhead "Dum Vivimus Vivamus"
> mailto:dburkhead@sff.net "While we live, let us live."
> My webcomic Cold Servings
> http://www.coldservings.com -- Back from hiatus!
> Updates Wednesdays
>
>
>