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Thank you all =.(

Unfortunately, my white goldfish has also just passed away =.( Thank you for all your help, I just wish i had known all this useful information before I decided to take them in.

Unfortunately no, my schedule doesnt allow me on monday to make any detours, tomorrow i will be able to pickk some up though and I just hope that my fishie can hold on for that long

His swimming is very brief and he zips through the tank and lays on the bottom for awhile afterwards

His gasping has subsided but i dont know if thats because of the water change or because the white goldfish is dying!

I am sad to report that my orange goldfish passed away today =.( The other appears to be gasping, i changed the water and then added maracyn again

What does the salt do? And okay ill try it, i just want them to get better.

Ah that link helped soo much, but i washed the gravel and all the decorations extremely well that i may have removed some of the necessary bacteria they need.... ugh So what does the salt do?

Isnt maracyn 2 medication? Whats kosher salt? If its available in a local market i can definetly pick some up!

The other home im getting them has an undergravel filter plus a normal filter and what causes ammonia to build so quickly?

I just replaced all 3 gallons with clean treated water(aquasafe and easybalance) They're still gasping...and unfortunately express delivery is out of my budget since its usually 20+dollars and im a college student =.( I thought the water treatments were suppose to level off the pH and other...

This is their home right now and im planning on doing 50% water changes every day until this weekend where i will go get their ex home, the 10+ gallon home they lived in previously with a vaccum filter underneath

How would i clean the garbage can just in case it was contaminated? Also with the medicated food, the closest pet shop around my college is 40 minutes on bike, i barely found sometime between classes to peddle away and buy the maracyn 2, i dont think i could do it again. Both of them seem to be...

The trash has a bag with some paper garbage but the trash is not actually touching the trashcan, the volume is 12x6x18(in.)

Is a small trash can okay? If i fill it up all the way atleast but i only have a filter that is made for 1 to 3 gallons