Manic Fury
Aquarium Advice Activist
Hello everyone this is my very first post!
I am a beginner to taking care of fish and am making it a new hobby of mine!
Before I became genuinely interested in fish and aquariums, I just thought fish were fish. They can live in anything! You just stick a filter in there to keep the water clear, feed em twice a day and BAM! they will always be healthy.
But much to my surprise, there is a lot to taking care of fish. Even goldfish!
So, here I am. And sadly, I have an unhealthy Fancy Goldfish named Pontus (father of the fish).
Recently, my fish has been "crashing". He sits at the bottom of his tank all day and does not swim around at all. I know that goldfish sleep by laying at the bottom of the tank but it has been all day for the past 2 days.
Also about 2 weeks ago he received a cut on his left side from a decoration that I did not place very well in his tank so he must have gotten stuck and when he swam out, it cut him.
I have been keeping Pontus in a 3 gallon tank. I know, this is very cruel. I did not know this prior to getting my fish. So two days ago I bought a 30 gallon tank for him! But sadly, I can't get it set-up for another couple of months. I live in the dorms at college and there is absolutely no room in here for that size of a tank.
The filter I have is a little piece of crap filter (Whisper 3i). I think it works but it really doesn't seem like it is.
I don't know the parameters of his tank because I do not have a test kit. I will buy that soon.
I did a 25% water change yesterday and plan on vaccumming his gravel today and doing a 10% water change.
If I missed any information that could potentially be helpful for my little guy Pontus then let me know. And if this post is a little all over the place and disorganized, it is my first post and I will most likely get better at it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am a beginner to taking care of fish and am making it a new hobby of mine!
Before I became genuinely interested in fish and aquariums, I just thought fish were fish. They can live in anything! You just stick a filter in there to keep the water clear, feed em twice a day and BAM! they will always be healthy.
But much to my surprise, there is a lot to taking care of fish. Even goldfish!
So, here I am. And sadly, I have an unhealthy Fancy Goldfish named Pontus (father of the fish).
Recently, my fish has been "crashing". He sits at the bottom of his tank all day and does not swim around at all. I know that goldfish sleep by laying at the bottom of the tank but it has been all day for the past 2 days.
Also about 2 weeks ago he received a cut on his left side from a decoration that I did not place very well in his tank so he must have gotten stuck and when he swam out, it cut him.
I have been keeping Pontus in a 3 gallon tank. I know, this is very cruel. I did not know this prior to getting my fish. So two days ago I bought a 30 gallon tank for him! But sadly, I can't get it set-up for another couple of months. I live in the dorms at college and there is absolutely no room in here for that size of a tank.
The filter I have is a little piece of crap filter (Whisper 3i). I think it works but it really doesn't seem like it is.
I don't know the parameters of his tank because I do not have a test kit. I will buy that soon.
I did a 25% water change yesterday and plan on vaccumming his gravel today and doing a 10% water change.
If I missed any information that could potentially be helpful for my little guy Pontus then let me know. And if this post is a little all over the place and disorganized, it is my first post and I will most likely get better at it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.