Hi there
I've got a 240litre coldwater tank with 5 fish currently in it. I don't have the stuff to do the testing but I took it to the local petshop and they tested it a week ago. Everything was fine except PH up a bit.
There are 2 common goldfish- one orange on yellow, a blue oranda, a red and white oranda and a comet.
About 3 weeks ago I noticed a lump on the side of the orange goldfish. The scale was missing on the top of it. Swimming around fine. The tank had been set up about 4 weeks but the fish had only moved in a fortnight before. They used to be in 2 smaller tanks- to be honest it's a wonder they were all still alive as it was only when I moved them into a bigger tank that I realised I really didn't know what I was doing.
They're currently on a tea tree oil based anti-bacterial (on day 4)- the lump's not gone. About a forthight ago our Black Moor died- he wasn't moving much, it looked like it was hard for him to swim and his eyes seemed swollen and red. As soon as we got him out of the water he died- no fight in him at all.
Klauss- the orange gold fish is still swimming round ok- seems fine. The other day though, I gave them flakes and there were half chewed flakes all over the place- it looked like they were coming out (and I mean a LOT of them) of Klauss's mouth (it sort of looked like they were oozing out of his gills aswell)- oh Im treating the whole tank by the way as I figured if he's got it they all will- and some have scales missing.
I've been very sparing with food.
Klauss and Muddy (the blue Oranda) are now pooing out thin white strands almost contantly (the tank was full of white whispy bits the other day). Also Muddy passed a spirally gooey long thing the other day- I'm wondering if it was a worm of some sort.
Really worried about them. I change 25% of the water weekly and there's 2 filters in there. A small one we got with the tank. I don't know how powerful it is but I realised it wasn't big enough so I introduced a 250 litre/hour one which went in co-incedentally the day before the white whispy things appeared. They nibble at a ferny type plant which seems to have white fuzz on it- like chewed up plant fibres.
I know this post is long- but as you can see lots of problems.
Please help- I'm really worried about them
Em
I've got a 240litre coldwater tank with 5 fish currently in it. I don't have the stuff to do the testing but I took it to the local petshop and they tested it a week ago. Everything was fine except PH up a bit.
There are 2 common goldfish- one orange on yellow, a blue oranda, a red and white oranda and a comet.
About 3 weeks ago I noticed a lump on the side of the orange goldfish. The scale was missing on the top of it. Swimming around fine. The tank had been set up about 4 weeks but the fish had only moved in a fortnight before. They used to be in 2 smaller tanks- to be honest it's a wonder they were all still alive as it was only when I moved them into a bigger tank that I realised I really didn't know what I was doing.
They're currently on a tea tree oil based anti-bacterial (on day 4)- the lump's not gone. About a forthight ago our Black Moor died- he wasn't moving much, it looked like it was hard for him to swim and his eyes seemed swollen and red. As soon as we got him out of the water he died- no fight in him at all.
Klauss- the orange gold fish is still swimming round ok- seems fine. The other day though, I gave them flakes and there were half chewed flakes all over the place- it looked like they were coming out (and I mean a LOT of them) of Klauss's mouth (it sort of looked like they were oozing out of his gills aswell)- oh Im treating the whole tank by the way as I figured if he's got it they all will- and some have scales missing.
I've been very sparing with food.
Klauss and Muddy (the blue Oranda) are now pooing out thin white strands almost contantly (the tank was full of white whispy bits the other day). Also Muddy passed a spirally gooey long thing the other day- I'm wondering if it was a worm of some sort.
Really worried about them. I change 25% of the water weekly and there's 2 filters in there. A small one we got with the tank. I don't know how powerful it is but I realised it wasn't big enough so I introduced a 250 litre/hour one which went in co-incedentally the day before the white whispy things appeared. They nibble at a ferny type plant which seems to have white fuzz on it- like chewed up plant fibres.
I know this post is long- but as you can see lots of problems.
Please help- I'm really worried about them
Em