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There is a lot of black brush algae growing on my plants. I wasn't able to find any information if BBA is good or bad for fancy goldfish. I understand I may have too little CO2 but I don't want to go high tech or buy tones of flourish excel to combat this and already my lighting is about 6...

Hi Shanny great to hear you decided to try BB. I have a canister filter so it has lots of media inside and I was able to remove all the gravel in one shot. I would suggest taking out half the gravel initially and then checking the water params after a day or so and if everything is ok then...

Ok i will switch to veggies for a bit. Afterwards, should small bits of shrimp be fed at every meal or should it only be fed once in a while. The shrimp have a lot of protein from my understanding and this would promote wen growth and growth in general?

Recently I started feeding my goldfish dried frozen shrimps mixed with their regular food. I noticed that the black moor is now pooping very thin white strands. Is there anything wrong with him? Water conditions are normal and he is swimming fine otherwise.

I have a bare bottom planted goldfish tank with medium sized rocks to hold down the plant roots. It has worked well for me so far and the plants provide extra oxygen. Just be careful with the placement of the rocks as the fish could try to squeeze in the cracks when looking for food and get...

Yes PH swings are bad but if you do weekly wcs the PH should be pretty stable.

I don't know sadly. I got him at the fish store a few months ago.

My bigger Oranda.

Fish are most sensitive to large temperature changes from what I understand. Make sure to temperature match and add declorinator and you should be fine.