Ahimsa
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
- Joined
- Sep 4, 2012
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Hi, I am new to the forum and fairly new and unexperienced at fish keeping.
I was wondering if somebody can give me advice about my oranda goldfish 6-7in. It has bloody streaks in its tail. I think it's called septicemia.
I use drop kits to test water quality, ammonia and nitrite are at 0, nitrates 10-20, ph 7.
The tank has been set up for 5 months, but I had these fish in another tank and then moved them into the current one with the same gravel, ornaments and bio-media in the sump.
There 5 fish altogether: 3 orandas, 1 black more and 1 ranchu.
I have noticed the streaks in the afflicted fish over a month ago. And it has not gotten better or worse. It is only couple veins. It has no change in the behavior and very active and aware.
I do weekly 40-50% water changes and vacuume the gravel very thoroughly.
They eat spectrum sinking pallets twice a day, daily veggies and frozen bloodworms once a week.
A while back I tested my source water and got a high nitrates reading, so I invested in RO unit and add aquarium salt and "stability" to the water I do water change with.
When the tank was first set up I had a lot of algee and since then I do an algee treatment every 2-3 weeks.
There is a tray with activated carbon, polishing pad, nitrazorb and bio-balls in the sump.
There are shells mixed in with the gravel, some of them dissolve over time. There is a piece of driftwood and couple live plants. I had some fake branches but the bigger fish was getting stuck, so I took it out. I am waiting for a manzanita branch in the mail.
My question is what do I do about the streaks in my fish tail? I had it for a year and a half and it had doubled in size since. If it is something serious I want to take care of it. I do not have a quarantine tank.
If you have an insight please help.
Thank you,
Polina
I was wondering if somebody can give me advice about my oranda goldfish 6-7in. It has bloody streaks in its tail. I think it's called septicemia.
I use drop kits to test water quality, ammonia and nitrite are at 0, nitrates 10-20, ph 7.
The tank has been set up for 5 months, but I had these fish in another tank and then moved them into the current one with the same gravel, ornaments and bio-media in the sump.
There 5 fish altogether: 3 orandas, 1 black more and 1 ranchu.
I have noticed the streaks in the afflicted fish over a month ago. And it has not gotten better or worse. It is only couple veins. It has no change in the behavior and very active and aware.
I do weekly 40-50% water changes and vacuume the gravel very thoroughly.
They eat spectrum sinking pallets twice a day, daily veggies and frozen bloodworms once a week.
A while back I tested my source water and got a high nitrates reading, so I invested in RO unit and add aquarium salt and "stability" to the water I do water change with.
When the tank was first set up I had a lot of algee and since then I do an algee treatment every 2-3 weeks.
There is a tray with activated carbon, polishing pad, nitrazorb and bio-balls in the sump.
There are shells mixed in with the gravel, some of them dissolve over time. There is a piece of driftwood and couple live plants. I had some fake branches but the bigger fish was getting stuck, so I took it out. I am waiting for a manzanita branch in the mail.
My question is what do I do about the streaks in my fish tail? I had it for a year and a half and it had doubled in size since. If it is something serious I want to take care of it. I do not have a quarantine tank.
If you have an insight please help.
Thank you,
Polina