nxumdon
Aquarium Advice Newbie
Hi
So I've been fighting with cycling my new 55gal with my fish (3 large fancy tail goldfish about 3 - 4" long, 2 tiny black moors, 1 lionhead, 1 bubble eye, 1 calico, and 1 pleco) in it and I made a few mistakes along the way (trying to medicate the injured tail with melafix while trying to cycle and I think the mela killed my biobugs) , but I've got things going in the right direction now (its only been up for about 10 days now) ...well, maybe...A few days ago (4 days) I noticed that one of my goldfish had begun to sit at the bottom of the tank and then the next day it was missing a 2" length of its tail and I found it sitting on the bottom of the tank (the missing piece)...so now this fish has a 2" by 1/4" chunk missing from its tail (from the top part of its rear tail to be exact)...the next day its missing the same thing, but from the bottom part of the rear tail... and again I found it on the bottom of the tank. Today I look at one of my other large goldies and I see a spot on his rear tail where it has started to crack, about 2" from the very tip, and it looks like it will also break off. What the heck is going on here? My ammonia is high, 3.0 - 4.0, but I've been doing daily 30% water changes and conditioning my water with Proquatics conditioner. I've used ammo-lock to help detoxify the ammonia. My ph is 7.4, Nitrite is 0, nitrate is 5 - 10 (what is safe?). I've also recently put two airstones and some porus lava rock into the two filter baskets of my penguin330 to gain a bunch of extra bio-filtering capacity (and soaked the lavarocks in 'cycle' to help with the bio startup . Is this tail breaking related to the ammonia? I'm going to put these two fish into my 30gal once its cycled (tomorrow hopefully) and medicate them...what should I use...I've got pimafix and melafix...What about using both? Good idea or bad idea... The rest of the fish in my large 55 seem fine...there is one other large goldie sitting on the bottom, but he has a small tail to begin with....it seems that my large fish are kinda ill, but all the small ones are fine...hrmmm. Thanks for reading this novel...Cheers
jason
So I've been fighting with cycling my new 55gal with my fish (3 large fancy tail goldfish about 3 - 4" long, 2 tiny black moors, 1 lionhead, 1 bubble eye, 1 calico, and 1 pleco) in it and I made a few mistakes along the way (trying to medicate the injured tail with melafix while trying to cycle and I think the mela killed my biobugs) , but I've got things going in the right direction now (its only been up for about 10 days now) ...well, maybe...A few days ago (4 days) I noticed that one of my goldfish had begun to sit at the bottom of the tank and then the next day it was missing a 2" length of its tail and I found it sitting on the bottom of the tank (the missing piece)...so now this fish has a 2" by 1/4" chunk missing from its tail (from the top part of its rear tail to be exact)...the next day its missing the same thing, but from the bottom part of the rear tail... and again I found it on the bottom of the tank. Today I look at one of my other large goldies and I see a spot on his rear tail where it has started to crack, about 2" from the very tip, and it looks like it will also break off. What the heck is going on here? My ammonia is high, 3.0 - 4.0, but I've been doing daily 30% water changes and conditioning my water with Proquatics conditioner. I've used ammo-lock to help detoxify the ammonia. My ph is 7.4, Nitrite is 0, nitrate is 5 - 10 (what is safe?). I've also recently put two airstones and some porus lava rock into the two filter baskets of my penguin330 to gain a bunch of extra bio-filtering capacity (and soaked the lavarocks in 'cycle' to help with the bio startup . Is this tail breaking related to the ammonia? I'm going to put these two fish into my 30gal once its cycled (tomorrow hopefully) and medicate them...what should I use...I've got pimafix and melafix...What about using both? Good idea or bad idea... The rest of the fish in my large 55 seem fine...there is one other large goldie sitting on the bottom, but he has a small tail to begin with....it seems that my large fish are kinda ill, but all the small ones are fine...hrmmm. Thanks for reading this novel...Cheers
jason