Recent content by SandyCheeks

My Shubunkin, Bruiser, has been sick since I returned from a vacation. I was gone 2 weeks and paid someone to take of things. The night I got back I noticed Bruiser was sitting on the bottom of the pond, so I put him in the 75 gal in the house. He was VERY thin and had maybe some light fuzz on...

Would love to visit Australia, but I live in the good ole USA. :-) Yes we also thought to wait on the kanamycin. We are doing Furan2 and Metro+ with tank covered. I thought she was doing better but she is floating on her side again now and looks slightly pineconed. So gonna add a little epsom...

I am going to make a batch of medicated gel food per the instructions on the Hikari website. Cant find any Furan-2 so I will order more. I have maracyn 2 and the metronidazonole Hikari Metro+. Can I combine the 2 in the same food? My thought is to cover both external and possibly internal...

Hi again. Wanted to check back. My goldfish seems to be slowly getting worse, even with the salt treatments and MB dips. Her symptoms are: fin/tail rot that is not getting worse or better, white stings hanging off her (which have lessoned), labored breathing, weakness, unable to submerge for...

I am concerned about how quickly this happened and the one with the bent back. Is there any way they could have got hurt on a pump or filter? One of mine looked like that when the intake pipe of my filter pump fell off and part of her got sucked into the fan. If you want to try antibiotics, I...

Thank you again for the info. The dreaded C word for fish. I sure hope not. I will keep an eye out for open sores. What stood out in the article is that columnaris can be caused by exactly what happened in my case: a spike in temp, an older weaker fish, bullying by another fish, high aeration...

Yes you are right about the equilibrium for planted tanks and great info all around about the params. For now on DT I am doing daily 20 % WC to slowly bring ph back up - I hope! In meantime will work on the diy suggestions you gave for buffering and getting my goldfish better. After 4 years I am...

She is in QT and the last two day she has taken a turn for the worse. Fin rot progressing rapidly. Ph in QT is 8.2 I have added salt, 3 tbs in a 15 gal tub. 50% water change daily to maintain clean water. Adding salt back per quota. 4 days ago I added API Fungal Cure because I thought maybe...

Thank you for your help. The QT was not cooler and she quit eating when isolated so is back in Dt. Not getting better. Not worse though. Tap water: Ph 8.0, gh 13, kh 8. Am 0, NO2 0. DT one week after water change: Ph 6.6, gh 14, kh 2. Am .25, No2 .25. What is going on in this tank? Why is the...

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My 6 yr old Red cap Oranda (who I love dearly) has very red streaky tail/fins that started today. Tail and around her face appear flaky. Eating ok. Bottom sitting behavior. The tank cycle crashed sometime in the last week - ph fell from 8.2 to 6.2 with ammonia and nitrite spikes. Not sure why...

Can a fish choke? I've heard others talk about fish choking, too, but fish breath through their gills which are like lungs on the sides of their head. Even with something stuck in their mouth they could still breath through their gills, right? :-) Either way, it is sad to see a beautiful...