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Sounds good, I'll give it a whirl, thanks people for your help Neil

I've got some silk plants in my tank which I clean in the tank water when I do a water change but they are getting brown algae on them which is hard to remove. I was wondering if I could wash them in a mild bleach formula or would this bleach the colour out of them?

The two males are one Common, and one Comet. The female is a Fan Tail. Can these still breed being different types of goldfish? Only the Common seems to be bothering the Fan Tail, the Comet doesn't seem interested (maybe he's gay,lol).

News up date! It turns out that 2 of my goldfish are males and the white spots on their gill plates are just what appear when they are ready to spawn. I've noticed that one of them keeps chasing the 3rd goldfish around the tank nudging at its rear so I suspect this one is female. So no ick...

Right ok, I might just go for a ick solution then that won't harm the plants and like it say's in the article extend the treatment period for another 2 weeks after the last white dots have disappeared just to be sure that all the ick have cycled through. Thanks again.

Thanks for the article very helpful, and thanks to you both for your advice. I think I'll look more into R/O water. I've looked into this already and to buy a filtering kit for tap water can be a bit expensive from what I've seen, but if this is what it takes . .. . I'll try more plants by...

Yes water from the fish shop did get into my tank when I introdued the rosy barbs, but I never noticed any of the fish at the store had any ick on them or on the rosy barbs. I know what you mean about the mess with goldfish I found this out quickly within the first 3 weeks of having them. I do...

No just 3 goldfish and 2 rosy barbs, I intend to start off small and see how things go before working my way up the chain so to speak, with a bigger tank and with more fish. Is this normal salt (I'm guessing not) or aquarium salt? How much and how often? Do I introduce slowly?

Hi everyone I'm new here and have discovered that my 2 goldfish have ick. Only a few whites spots near to their gills. They have a few scales missing as well (I think from rubbing themselves against the drift wood and rock). I've looked it up on here and the best way people are going about...

Yeah thanks for that. I've found the same snail its a Pomacea flagellata flagellata. As I've read its not suited to planted fish tanks as it eats all plant life and at a very fast rate. Wish the bloke in the shop had told me this as I would have never bought it. I've been told I can return it to...

He's brown and black stripped pretty sure its an apple snail