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Hello friends, I need advice on a new-ish aquarium, please. It actually belongs to a family member with less experience keeping fish than I have, but I'm not sure how to solve her trouble. It's a 30-gallon tank with six small goldfish in it (under three inches long). My mom was transferring...

Mr Limpet, I finally got a chance to look at your threads about your own fry. Very impressed! I have a more hands-off approach to fish-keeping, though I would love to get into aqua-scaping more...I'm on a tight budget and sometimes it's all I can do to buy the essentials, especially now that...

My goldfish in their favorite position.

Yes, it is! All in a row, they actually are the header for my blog, where I've been chronicling my adventures in fry.

I don't have plans to move the comet...not able to set up a bigger tank right now and don't have a pond she could go into. I actually bought her in a trio of tiny 13-cent "starter" fish when I first set up the 40 gallon aquarium. Two died and she just kept growing and growing. Now she's the...

Thanks Mr. Limpet. God luck with your fish. "Going crazy" is definitely the way to describe spawning goldfish. We call it the "Crazy dance" in our household. I did figure any algae in the net would make a nice snack. Glad to know there's someone else out there with unsanctioned surprise...

Hi, I have a forty gallon tank with two fantail and one comet goldfish. The two males are about eight years old and the comet, the female youngster, is about 2 years. They're fairly large, over six inches. I've had several goldfish over the years and have lost some to one thing or another, and...

I am new to this forum, so thanks to anyone who has any expertise to share. I have kept fantail goldfish for several years. This spring, they decided to spawn for the first time. I was totally surprised and hadn't prepared for fry at all, but scrambled to care for them, buying powdered food...