Hello from Canada!!

Hi!!

I am a new to owning goldfish and love them tho I am not having the best of luck with them. Origionall I had 7 fish altogether and now I am left 1 black moor and 1 oranda that has ich and is dying. I curenty have a 10 gallon tank and am upgrading to a 20 + soon.

This is the reason for me joining the forum to learn about goldfish and meet some interesting people that also enjoy having fish.

I hope to resolve my problem and have many more fish!!

 

Hello and welcome!

We can try and help you out, no problem. But we need some more information first. How long has your tank been setup? Did you buy and stock all 7 fish at once? What kinds of fish were they, all goldfish? Do you have any water testing kits?

 

more tank info

Hi there!! Thanks for the reply!!

About my fish ( this is a long story..sorry).....

I was given 2 comets and 1 shubunkin to start off with. I went out and bought my 10 gallon (canadian I think not sure what the diff is lol) tank and set it up as your suppose to. When I put these 3 fish in the tank, I found out how dirty they were and gave away my comets and kept the shubunkin. Which had fin rot when it was given to me. I then bout 2 black moors and 1 algie eater. I know they are warm water fish but a friend has one in her tank and it's 3 - 4 years old so I decided to give it a try....1 black moor lived and the other and algie eater died in a matter of 3 days.... this is where it gets confusing to me...I then bought 1 more black moor, 1 red cap oranda and 1 red fantail... After 4 days my new black moor became full of white...flakes of skin? Thats what it looked like to me and it was even hanging off its eyes. That one got skiny and died. I treated it in a sepreat tank with jungle fungus/bacterial elimanitor and it did nothing. 1 week and it died. My oranda then after 1 week gets ick..verry verry bad. ABOSOLUTLY no other fish got it and after 3 days the oranda died. 4 days after it died my red fantail gets it and within 1 day its dead. (And what confuses me the shubunkin and the black moor that i've had for over a month are completly fine!!)(I was also treating the ick with jungle ick guard and it did nothing so I tried salt and I think it just made matters worse)...So seeing that my other 2 fish were fine (other then the shubunkin has finrot and is being treated with milifix in a different tank) I go out and buy another oranda. Had it for 2 days and now it has ick severly and is dying....

Tonight I completly emptied my tank. Cleaned it with bleach ( i know your not really suppose to but I am just totaly fustrated with this matter), then cleaned it with pure white vinegar and the washed it with dish deturgent. I then took the hair drier and dried off all the extra water and made the tank completly dry and left it alone for 2 hours. I cleaned all my tank accesories with vinegar and scalding hot water and scalded my gravel and then blow dried them too.... I don't know if this was a good idea but I just don't know what else to do..... I'm starting to regret buying the fish lol!!

Alos I use water conditioner for tap water and a little sea salt (nothing else added!!) and thats it. I currently have milifix, ick guard, clear water, and the conditioner. I am feeding flakes and algie wafers (they perfer those really!!) I am going out to buy the proper water testing kit too...

Thats the end of my story... Any advice????

Thanks!!

 

welcome to 3reef!

 

To 3Reef!!! ​

Salutations! Glad to see you found way here! ;D --- I think you canuks have the rest of us outnumbered by now.
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