FancyGoldies
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Hi all
I'm new to this site. Owner of three goldfish: red oranda, black moor, and red&black calico rhyukin. All in a 55gal tank with an Eheim filter big enough to clean 120gallons. I've had them almost two years. Yeah they are all about 8 inches and fully grown males.
They are always coming down with something or another. As of right now they like to sit on the substrate and not swim until food is given. I'll admit they have been through a lot with me learning the ropes the hard way. I've dosed them with malachite green, methane blue dips, rid ich, treated for red algae, Melafix, antibiotics, clout, jungle fungus clear and Aqua salt over those two years. I've even given my oranda a small wen cut so he could see again, only to have it grow back within a month.
They swim in super clear 55gal tank, changed weekly, using prime water conditioner and live off aqueon slow sinking pellets with a air stone 24/7 and 80F water (I'm in Phoenix its their life to be warm). They also have an huge almond leaf and Aqua salt always in the tank to help keep them healthy.
So I'm racking my brain trying to figure out what's up with them. I want swimmer fish I can watch.
Calico recently got over his swim bladder issues swimming vertically, but oranda is hanging around the floor upside down sometimes. The books I've read don't even explain those circus tricks. The fish have red streaks on their fins (who knows with the black moor he's black after all). They sit on the bottom. Oranda started to do this when he couldn't see anymore because of his huge wen. The calico is not on the floor but floats in the corner. There are no outward issues, no fungus or such. There seemed to be ulcers, red and white fluff which went away with the fungus clear and salt treatment. So I though must be internal parasites? I treated with clout for flukes. Not much changed even with the four doses and water changes as required. I treated with fungus clear for bacteria parasites. Nope. Three treatments and no change. I'm now putting in rid-ich because that will help for costia. Salt should have ruled out costia but it can't hurt to help if the salt isn't enough. Their water is warm to help with healing. I'm at a loss on what's wrong. They act pretty normal but sitting at bottom and the red streaks are a bad sign.
I did however treat them for ich for a month when they were going up. Finally said my goodbyes to them because the spots wouldn't go and stopped the medicines to see if they would die. Turned out they were boys and just got their spots!
So am I doing this again? Should I let them be and see what happens?
I check the water chemistry every few weeks, and the ammonia is always at 0, nitrates at 0 and nitrate low, and the high range ph is in the 7.8 range.
Any ideas or advice?
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I'm new to this site. Owner of three goldfish: red oranda, black moor, and red&black calico rhyukin. All in a 55gal tank with an Eheim filter big enough to clean 120gallons. I've had them almost two years. Yeah they are all about 8 inches and fully grown males.
They are always coming down with something or another. As of right now they like to sit on the substrate and not swim until food is given. I'll admit they have been through a lot with me learning the ropes the hard way. I've dosed them with malachite green, methane blue dips, rid ich, treated for red algae, Melafix, antibiotics, clout, jungle fungus clear and Aqua salt over those two years. I've even given my oranda a small wen cut so he could see again, only to have it grow back within a month.
They swim in super clear 55gal tank, changed weekly, using prime water conditioner and live off aqueon slow sinking pellets with a air stone 24/7 and 80F water (I'm in Phoenix its their life to be warm). They also have an huge almond leaf and Aqua salt always in the tank to help keep them healthy.
So I'm racking my brain trying to figure out what's up with them. I want swimmer fish I can watch.
Calico recently got over his swim bladder issues swimming vertically, but oranda is hanging around the floor upside down sometimes. The books I've read don't even explain those circus tricks. The fish have red streaks on their fins (who knows with the black moor he's black after all). They sit on the bottom. Oranda started to do this when he couldn't see anymore because of his huge wen. The calico is not on the floor but floats in the corner. There are no outward issues, no fungus or such. There seemed to be ulcers, red and white fluff which went away with the fungus clear and salt treatment. So I though must be internal parasites? I treated with clout for flukes. Not much changed even with the four doses and water changes as required. I treated with fungus clear for bacteria parasites. Nope. Three treatments and no change. I'm now putting in rid-ich because that will help for costia. Salt should have ruled out costia but it can't hurt to help if the salt isn't enough. Their water is warm to help with healing. I'm at a loss on what's wrong. They act pretty normal but sitting at bottom and the red streaks are a bad sign.
I did however treat them for ich for a month when they were going up. Finally said my goodbyes to them because the spots wouldn't go and stopped the medicines to see if they would die. Turned out they were boys and just got their spots!
So am I doing this again? Should I let them be and see what happens?
I check the water chemistry every few weeks, and the ammonia is always at 0, nitrates at 0 and nitrate low, and the high range ph is in the 7.8 range.
Any ideas or advice?
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