Smaug21
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
Unfortunately when i came home tonight my last goldfish was on his last legs(fins?). He's been swimming very odd the last few days, I thought he was done about 3 days ago when he started not staying in the normal areas in the middle and just floated at the top or bottom. Then 2 days ago he started floating on his side at the top of the tank...needless to say at that point i was really worried. I did a PWC and put in some Stress coat stuff that i have. At that point he perked up a bit, and looked pretty good this morning and i was gonna run some more water changes and maybe post on here if he stayed the same. But i get home tonight and he's floating at the top...and he's covered in bubbles..beyond that he looked fine. Rather then letting him suffer i euthanized him about 2 hours ago.
Unlike some other fish i've had in the distant past I'm not worried about anything that i did wrong, i got him and a buddy goldfish 5 years ago when i moved into my dorm room and some other freshmen we're going to flush them! While it's not even up to the average of 8yrs? it's a lot longer then most goldfish are alive, and he was pretty well cared for.
This might seem like an odd opening to a post on African clawed frogs but his tank-mate was a pretty big African clawed frog, only about 1yr younger then the goldfish, so if your counting thats 4yrs, and I'm wondering what i could get to keep him company now. I may just move him to a 10g and let him live alone, but it seems to me he'd do better with a bit of motion and change in his life. For a long time i didn't think i could keep him with anything because i thought he'd eat anything you'd put in, but after reading good things about goldfish doing well with them, i combined my 2 tanks into the one 15g, and they lived pretty well for about 3 years and atleast 2 full moves. I've thought about just getting more goldfish, but i thought i'd ask on here.
I'm probably gonna pull down the whole tank and refurbish it (clean the algea off the fake rock, sift the gravel and get back to only the big "natural" gravel instead of the little blue stuff, etc.) so i can set it up for whatever i decide to do.
So any suggestions?
Unlike some other fish i've had in the distant past I'm not worried about anything that i did wrong, i got him and a buddy goldfish 5 years ago when i moved into my dorm room and some other freshmen we're going to flush them! While it's not even up to the average of 8yrs? it's a lot longer then most goldfish are alive, and he was pretty well cared for.
This might seem like an odd opening to a post on African clawed frogs but his tank-mate was a pretty big African clawed frog, only about 1yr younger then the goldfish, so if your counting thats 4yrs, and I'm wondering what i could get to keep him company now. I may just move him to a 10g and let him live alone, but it seems to me he'd do better with a bit of motion and change in his life. For a long time i didn't think i could keep him with anything because i thought he'd eat anything you'd put in, but after reading good things about goldfish doing well with them, i combined my 2 tanks into the one 15g, and they lived pretty well for about 3 years and atleast 2 full moves. I've thought about just getting more goldfish, but i thought i'd ask on here.
I'm probably gonna pull down the whole tank and refurbish it (clean the algea off the fake rock, sift the gravel and get back to only the big "natural" gravel instead of the little blue stuff, etc.) so i can set it up for whatever i decide to do.
So any suggestions?