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09-03-2005, 01:59 PM
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| Large Fish  Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: I currently lodge in a house with my Jack Russell pup, Boosh.
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|  Sonya that'll be fine, so long as it's a BIG pond  big enough and deep enough for them to swim around.. don't add too many fish, but 8 Goldies and Koi should be fine, make sure the pond isn't small though.
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09-04-2005, 09:16 AM
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| Super Fish  Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Nottingham, UK
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| great work iggy, this is gonna be stickied right?
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10-31-2005, 04:05 PM
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| Teenie Weenie Fish  Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: north west England
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| hey iggy, im rather new to the fish game, a beginner really, i hav 5 fish in a cold water tank, a common gold fish, black gold fish, shabunkin and a comet head, my tank if rather large and looks relative empty, but i was told to add fish over a long period of time and not all at once, can you please tell me what other fish would be suitable to add to my tank and mix with my current fish? any advice would be most welcome, thank you. |
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10-31-2005, 11:20 PM
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| Super Fish  Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Leduc, AB, Canada
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| gettinjiggy, If you can give me your tank dimensions (inches wide, deep, tall) or gallons, I can give you a better answer. Remember, goldfish well kept can easily live 10 years, and they continue to grow, most will get at least 6 inches long - so they will eventuall 'fill-up' the tank. What I suggest you do now is add some nice silk plants, they can really fill in the gaps and help produce a more natural behavior in your fish that can be a lot of fun to watch.
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11-01-2005, 06:21 PM
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| Teenie Weenie Fish Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Scotland (Glasgow).
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| Help! Iggy, Please help. I dont know if I should be doing something to help my 10 year old fancy goldfish. He has been "not right" for about a month. Now he has scales sticking out, scales missing, he is on the bottom gasping , he isn't feeding or moving freely, he has a red lump under his mouth area. I can't watch him any more :-( My other fish have been, and still are, fine. I think he is dying. Do I wait till the final end? It's awful. I don't think its fair to leave him like this. Please advise. |
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11-02-2005, 06:12 AM
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| Teenie Weenie Fish  Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Manchester , England
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| it sounds like dropsy aurora , and I see you live in the uk, so will be very difficult to obtain any antibiotic foods. Has the fish body swelled up too? there are various causes for the fish to contract dropsy , high nitrates ...heart disease to name a couple but the most likey cause would be a bacterial infection causing organ failure. In early stages you can treat the fish with a internal anti bacterial medication such as interpet number 9 ( i think ), waterlifes octozin http://www.atlantisaquatics.co.uk/ac.../waterlife.htm or ring around some vets who deal with fish who can prescribe anti biotics ( baytril i think ) a here is a link re:dropsy http://www.koivet.com/html/articles/...ch_term=dropsy unfortunately in advanced stages of dropsy the kindest option would be to euthanise the fish  I wish you good luck in what ever you decide to do. stuey ps can someone move this to the disease thread.
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11-02-2005, 06:21 PM
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| Teenie Weenie Fish Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Scotland (Glasgow).
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| Thanks for your advice. He is getting worse. I think he's beyond help and is dying an agonising death. I dont know what to do with him :-( His body hasn't swelled though. Quote:
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11-03-2005, 01:06 PM
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| Super Fish Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Leduc, AB, Canada
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| Hi aurora.. Sorry to hear about your sick fish. I've lost quite a few fish to dropsy as well and it's totally disheartening Dropys is more a symptom than a disease. What happens is that either a kidney or some other internal organ shuts down, the the body no longer processes fluid, so it stores up and swells in the abdomen. I've never been able to save a fish from dropsy, even when I catch it early. Sooner or later they relapse and die. Water conditions can be a cause, but not always. Certain species are more prone to dropsy (dwarf gouramies) and inbreeding can make it more likely. Normally, I would say freeze a fish, but goldies are so tolerent of low temperatures it would be a terrible way to go. A swift chop with a butchers knife would do it, but even I have a really hard time doing that. Either way, time will take it's toll... I am truely sorry.
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