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Posted by EA on April 10, 2007, 10:09 am
Please log in for more thread options Hello,
We've just purchased 8 goldfish and put them in a 50 Litre tank. The
tank had been filled for about 2 months, and there are plants in there
too. We have a filter that ran for about an hour before the fish were
put in the tank.
We also used "water ager tap water conditioner" before we put the fish
in.
7 of the 8 fish seem very happy - they swim around a lot and rush to
the the top when we feed them. The 8th seems to sleep a lot and move
quite slowly - although he does move occasionally. He likes to suck on
rocks and then spit them out as well.
I am worried that he is sick - we've only had him a few days but I am
still very worried.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
EA
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Posted by Reel McKoi on April 10, 2007, 5:59 pm
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> Hello,
>
> We've just purchased 8 goldfish and put them in a 50 Litre tank. The
> tank had been filled for about 2 months, and there are plants in there
> too. We have a filter that ran for about an hour before the fish were
> put in the tank.
>
> We also used "water ager tap water conditioner" before we put the fish
> in.
>
> 7 of the 8 fish seem very happy - they swim around a lot and rush to
> the the top when we feed them. The 8th seems to sleep a lot and move
> quite slowly - although he does move occasionally. He likes to suck on
> rocks and then spit them out as well.
>
> I am worried that he is sick - we've only had him a few days but I am
> still very worried.
>
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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I'm not familiar with the metric system but do know each goldfish needs at
least the equivalent of 10 gallons of water to remain healthy. Goldfish eat
a lot and are not small fish. They grow rapidly when healthy. What you buy
are youngsters. Have you been doing your weekly partial water changes?
Make sure you dechlorinate or de-chloramine the water before adding it to
your tank. The temperature of the new water should be almost the same as
what's in the tank. Feed them a variety of food and feed them at least
twice a day. They're browsers and grazers, not gorgers. You can Google
goldfish+care and come up with more information than you ever wanted to know
about them.
--
RM....
Frugal ponding since 1995.
rec.ponder since late 1996.
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
http://tinyurl.com/9do58
Zone 6. Middle TN USA
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Posted by swarvegorilla on April 11, 2007, 2:30 am
Please log in for more thread options Far too many fish, far too quickly and far too small a tank!!!
Your filter is brand new.... not good mate.
unless you fed the tank fish food for the 2 months before the fish went
in.... then there will be very very very few waste processing bacteria in
the tank.
Not good now they have to take care of 8 fishes poo!!
The fish that looks bad/sick....
he's your canary
the rest of the fish will follow quickly
you have set yourself up a nightmare.....
to solve it
1) feed very lightly
2) partial water change every 1 0r 2 days (remove prob 50% of water)
3) don't clean filter until flow slows (and then only squeeze out in a
bucket of aquarium water)
I am glad I am not in your shoes anyway!
Research 'new tank syndrome'
and prepare for ammonia/nitrite hell
:)
In 3 weeks time
if all goes well
you'll be able to change to 1/3 partial water changes every week
but until that ammonia/nitrite drops......
gotta dilute to save ya fishys!
gasping and sitting on bottem are bad bad signs!
> Hello,
>
> We've just purchased 8 goldfish and put them in a 50 Litre tank. The
> tank had been filled for about 2 months, and there are plants in there
> too. We have a filter that ran for about an hour before the fish were
> put in the tank.
>
> We also used "water ager tap water conditioner" before we put the fish
> in.
>
> 7 of the 8 fish seem very happy - they swim around a lot and rush to
> the the top when we feed them. The 8th seems to sleep a lot and move
> quite slowly - although he does move occasionally. He likes to suck on
> rocks and then spit them out as well.
>
> I am worried that he is sick - we've only had him a few days but I am
> still very worried.
>
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
> EA
>
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Posted by EA on April 11, 2007, 7:31 am
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Thanks a lot for the info, I thought I'd done my research - but
clearly not well enough =(
I hope I can save my fish, I will be very upset if they die!
The new tank syndrome sound pretty much like what we've got. We spoke
to our pet store and they didn't warn us about any of this, and told
us to test the ph levels & add more oxygen.
Anyway, thanks again
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Posted by Reel McKoi on April 11, 2007, 10:49 am
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> Thanks a lot for the info, I thought I'd done my research - but
> clearly not well enough =(
>
> I hope I can save my fish, I will be very upset if they die!
Do any many partial water changes as necessary to keep the ammonia or
nitrites as low as possible. Perhaps you can return a few of the fish, find
them new homes or get a larger tank.
> The new tank syndrome sound pretty much like what we've got. We spoke
> to our pet store and they didn't warn us about any of this, and told
> us to test the ph levels & add more oxygen.
Neither of which will help much with NTS (new tank syndrome).
> Anyway, thanks again
--
RM....
Frugal ponding since 1995.
rec.ponder since late 1996.
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
http://tinyurl.com/9do58
Zone 6. Middle TN USA
~~~~ }<((((*> ~~~ }<{{{{(ö>
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> We've just purchased 8 goldfish and put them in a 50 Litre tank. The
> tank had been filled for about 2 months, and there are plants in there
> too. We have a filter that ran for about an hour before the fish were
> put in the tank.
>
> We also used "water ager tap water conditioner" before we put the fish
> in.
>
> 7 of the 8 fish seem very happy - they swim around a lot and rush to
> the the top when we feed them. The 8th seems to sleep a lot and move
> quite slowly - although he does move occasionally. He likes to suck on
> rocks and then spit them out as well.
>
> I am worried that he is sick - we've only had him a few days but I am
> still very worried.
>
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.