RiahFox
Aquarium Advice Newbie
So I started this account to ask for some advice for my new fish...
I just dove nose first into goldfish when I fell in love with an Oranda. So, here's the set up:
90 gallon tank: 1 pleco, 1 6" white oranda, 1 5" Comet, 1 black moor and 1 funky swimming veiltail calico ryukin. I got him from a slightly ghetto hole in the wall store during my hunt for a calico oranda (which I finally found).
Nitrate: 0
Nitrite: 0
PH: 7.0
KH *Carbonate*: 40
GH: 30
Decor: Some plastic plants, smooth rocks mixed lightly with white gravel, 3 underwater filters (they're small, in the process of getting 1 larger one), and air stone.... thingys buried in two different sides of the tank. I used to have turtles in the tank, but before starting this set up scrubbed and cleaned the tank for 8 hours according to instructions I found online with a bleach mixture and LOTS of rinsing.
Anyways, he will be swimming around the tank fine one second and the next he... tumbles(?), spinning upside down for a second, corrects himself and then starts floating "butt up". Now I've scoured the internet and I've read about swim bladder but being so new to this, I'm just not sure. One place I read says "butt up" wouldn't be swim bladder, and everywhere else is telling me to treat for swim bladder... So I thought I'd come to the professionals. I don't want Herald to die
(P.s. I know the video isn't the best...)
I just dove nose first into goldfish when I fell in love with an Oranda. So, here's the set up:
90 gallon tank: 1 pleco, 1 6" white oranda, 1 5" Comet, 1 black moor and 1 funky swimming veiltail calico ryukin. I got him from a slightly ghetto hole in the wall store during my hunt for a calico oranda (which I finally found).
Nitrate: 0
Nitrite: 0
PH: 7.0
KH *Carbonate*: 40
GH: 30
Decor: Some plastic plants, smooth rocks mixed lightly with white gravel, 3 underwater filters (they're small, in the process of getting 1 larger one), and air stone.... thingys buried in two different sides of the tank. I used to have turtles in the tank, but before starting this set up scrubbed and cleaned the tank for 8 hours according to instructions I found online with a bleach mixture and LOTS of rinsing.
Anyways, he will be swimming around the tank fine one second and the next he... tumbles(?), spinning upside down for a second, corrects himself and then starts floating "butt up". Now I've scoured the internet and I've read about swim bladder but being so new to this, I'm just not sure. One place I read says "butt up" wouldn't be swim bladder, and everywhere else is telling me to treat for swim bladder... So I thought I'd come to the professionals. I don't want Herald to die
(P.s. I know the video isn't the best...)