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Can The Psychodidae (moth Fly) Harm The Goldfish In My Aquarium?

I just checked the filter from my fish tank (10 gallon- 2 goldfish) out jumped a fly the size of a fruit fly. looking closer I could see a little worm- beige with a black head- crawling on the filter! I checked online and got to know its name: psychodidae (moth fly) but there is no more information. Can it harm my gold fish, do they bite? the fish seem sluggish at one point and aggressive to each other sometimes. what do I have to do next? is there any way to stop this fly from reproducing?

Red Sores On The Mouth Of My Goldfish?

I’ve got a ten gallon tank with three fish, two Shubunkins and a Comet. The Comet I’ve had for around two years now. College recently started again for me, and before that one of my family members died around June, so I haven’t had a lot of time to maintain and clean the tank because I’ve been stressed out.
Today, I removed all of the decorations to clean because I’ve got an outbreak of brown algae, and I noticed some red bumpy sores around the mouth of my Comet, along the bottom right of his lip.
I took the liberty of taking a couple photos. http://oi56.tinypic.com/zuny0w.jpg http://oi51.tinypic.com/a1sj78.jpg
They’re rather large, because for some reason my camera enjoys uploading pictures in the size of EXTRA HUGE, so you’ll be able to see a lot of detail.
Any ideas what’s going on and how I can treat it?

Help Treating White Spot And Possible Fin Rot On Goldfish?

My friend has a tank with a goldfish and 2 cold water platies. At the weekend she bought another goldfish.
From what she described the fish has white spot and she is now saying that the top fin seems to be disapearing. Could this be fin rot as well?
Will she need to buy white spot and fin rot treatments?
Also will the sick fish need to be removed from the tank and treated or should it be treated with in the tank with the other fish aswell??
I understand that the others will also need treating.
Thanks…

Q&A: Sick Redcap Goldfish….?

Question by Rohit: Sick Redcap Goldfish….?
My pet redcap had been behaving quite strangely for the last few days….he would roam to a corner of the aquarium n “stand” in an upright position for some time before wandering off….today he is appearing quite sick….he is just leaning on the aquarium wall….he cant even “stand” properly since he is all wobbly….however he is swimming perfectly (when he is swimming that is)….he is also eating normally…there appears no external injury/inflammation on his body….whats wrong with him??i administered one capsule of terramycin-250 (mixed the capsule in the water) on advice of the guy at the pet store yesterday…however there is no improvemnt….any suggestions please…..
The tank is 18 gallons…yes i do have a filter…the water is completely changed once a month….it was changed yesterday only….
The tanks gets really dirty…specially the walls…so its cleaned once a month….if nitrite/amonia levels r indeed the prblm, whts the remedy???

Best answer:

Answer by Ganal
How large is the tank? Do you have a filter?

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Help! Cycling A Tank With Feeder Goldfish!?

I just bought a 10 gallon aquarium. I cleaned the water with Aquasafe. The fish store guy told me to start the cycling process with 2 feeder goldfishes and add Stress Zyme to add bacteria. I have had the feeder goldfishes for 2 days now, but after reading up on it sites have said that they are not a good choice b/c they can carry disease. Can I just get rid of the goldfishes in a pond and then add in 2 other safer fishes to continue the cycle or do i have to dump everything and start all over again?

What Would Happen If I Put My Beta In My Goldfish Aquarium?

i feel bad for him because i have him in a 2 1/2 gal aquarium? my goldfish tank is big enough for my 2 goldfish and im not going to say the size because someone always has something to say about that. would my beta hurt my goldfish? there bigger then him.. how would i tell how aggressive he is? and what can i do to make sure that he doesnt get my whole goldfish tank sick, he doesnt look sick but should i treat him with melafix for a week before i move him if i do?

Help! I can’t figure out what’s wrong with my pearlscale goldfish?

Question by Amberlicious24: Help! I can’t figure out what’s wrong with my pearlscale goldfish?
Ok, first off, I’m totally new to this & the pet stores are mostly useless when it comes to responsibly selling fish. I can’t find anything online about my fish’s condition. Let me start with bringing you up to speed on the tank and then my fish’s condition…

The Tank
We’ve had it almost 3 weeks now. No one told me about cycling or what I would need to get through it and we lost our african frog “Buddy” from the ammonia levels in the 1st cycle. Petco tells me after he dies that frogs can’t handle the high ammonia due to not having scales – but they still sold him to me. Grr… We lost our placostamous “Hot Lips” next, he somehow got pinned under an abalone shell in the corner of the tank. Upon returning to get a replacement “Hot Lips the 2nd” they proceeded to sell us 3 more small fish – a neon, a zebra danio & a sm yellow fish which name I don’t recall… No advice to quarantine them 1st… they were added & the tank came down with ick.

I treated ick with Aquari-sol. The neon died during treatment & yellow fish near end of treatment. All white spots were gone on remaining fish, so I ceased treatment within 24hrs as the tank was in desperate need of filtering so I could clean/stir up the gravel.

I noticed one spot come back on the fin of 2 fish, so took the carbon filter back out & began treating again. I woke up the next morning to find a very sick pearlscale fish “Leo”

My Pearlscale’s Condition
About 60% of Leo’s scales have fallen off & he has a white layer of skin-like stuff coating his missing scales. It’s been 48 hrs and it appears the white stuff may just be a protective mechanism, as the scales appear to be healing… but he is having trouble swimming. One of the fins on his underside was not easy to control the 1st 24 hrs, but he is using it normally now. Yesterday whenever he stopped swimming he would float tail side up towards the top of the water. Now he is swimming very little but is most often face down kind of hanging there in the upper 24% of the water.

Everything online about scales falling off is from rough handling or objects in the tank. This dude had ALL scales in tact when I went to bed a couple of nights ago and 60% missing in the morning… the missing scales are disease related, they have not been knocked off.

I read about marine ick & thought this could be a pearlscale reaction to a secondary infection as I may have failed to kill it properly, since I am now reading that you have to keep treating for days after the white spots go away. I’ve moved him into a separate 1 gallon tank and am continuing ick treatment in both tanks.

My mickey mouse platy “Jack” & zebra danio “Zippy” seem to be doing pretty good, but this evening I noticed that Zippy’s belly looks bloated and I can barely get either Jack or Zippy to eat. Leo hasn’t eaten for 3 days now… the only fish seeming to be doing perfectly well is Hot Lips. He chows his algae tabs like there’s no tomorrow and is behaving normally.

Any help is appreciated… ESPECIALLY from anyone experienced with pearlscale’s… as Leo is the only one who had the issue with his scales falling off. No loss of scales on the other standard scaled fish.
Thank you for the 2nd (long) answer. It was very helpful & will likely be my choice for best answer. I agree to go tropical and Hot Lips has a 2nd home in waiting in the neighbor’s pond. Here’s what I found on bloating for the danio:

Q: My fish used to eat readily, but now he won’t eat at all. His stomach is all bloated up.

A: Sounds like the fish has internal Hexamita (Malawi Bloat).

Can anyone add info about this?

Best answer:

Answer by Kim
Try a website called just answer here is a link.

http://www.justanswer.com/tags/pet/goldfish

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I have 2 goldfish in a 2 gal. aquarium with a tetra filter why does the water get cloudy after couple of days?

Question by jctyper2000: I have 2 goldfish in a 2 gal. aquarium with a tetra filter why does the water get cloudy after couple of days?

Best answer:

Answer by Carson
Your tank is way too small and the goldfish are poop machines. You really need to get at least a 20 gallon tank, which you will need to upgrade in the future. If you want your fish to live and you won’t take them back to the store you need to be doing many water changes. I recommend taking them back and getting a betta.

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