akmandlarge
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
I have 2 problems with my Black Moor Goldfish.
1) He has finrot on his tail, and developing on his top dorsal fin. I have tried everything from water changes, Maracyn, Maracyn II, Tetracycline, Fungus Clear, and Anti-Bacteria medicated fish food and NOTHING will get rid of it. I follow the instructions to a T and still his fins remain the same. The only time that I got partial results was when I put him in a 1 gallon "hospital tank" and used the tetracycline, but it made the water quality so harsh that within a week he was laying sideways on the bottom of the tank with bloody eyes. EEK! So I put him in his big tank and his fins stayed in the "reparing" stage for a while, but then began to regress back to shreds. This has been going on for about 5-6 months now. What should I try next?
2) Lately my fish has been sitting at the bottom of the tank. Nothing else (other than the fin rot) is significantly wrong with him, and all of his water levels (pH, NH3, temp, etc) are fine. The pH is approx 6.8, the NH3 is at 0.0, and the temperature is about 80 degrees. When I walk over to his tank he perks up and swims around, but often I walk in my room just to find him laying/sitting on the bottom of the tank, motionless. Most other sites said that this was due to poor water quality, but that is not my case. What is going on and what should I do?
1) He has finrot on his tail, and developing on his top dorsal fin. I have tried everything from water changes, Maracyn, Maracyn II, Tetracycline, Fungus Clear, and Anti-Bacteria medicated fish food and NOTHING will get rid of it. I follow the instructions to a T and still his fins remain the same. The only time that I got partial results was when I put him in a 1 gallon "hospital tank" and used the tetracycline, but it made the water quality so harsh that within a week he was laying sideways on the bottom of the tank with bloody eyes. EEK! So I put him in his big tank and his fins stayed in the "reparing" stage for a while, but then began to regress back to shreds. This has been going on for about 5-6 months now. What should I try next?
2) Lately my fish has been sitting at the bottom of the tank. Nothing else (other than the fin rot) is significantly wrong with him, and all of his water levels (pH, NH3, temp, etc) are fine. The pH is approx 6.8, the NH3 is at 0.0, and the temperature is about 80 degrees. When I walk over to his tank he perks up and swims around, but often I walk in my room just to find him laying/sitting on the bottom of the tank, motionless. Most other sites said that this was due to poor water quality, but that is not my case. What is going on and what should I do?