Unlabelled Goldfish - Aquariums - My 28 gallon ranchu pond. Home to 4 very wiggly whales. Lol (requested by u/aquariumbitch )

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Goldfish - Aquariums - My 28 gallon ranchu pond. Home to 4 very wiggly whales. Lol (requested by u/aquariumbitch )

My 28 gallon ranchu pond. Home to 4 very wiggly whales. Lol (requested by u/aquariumbitch )

Posted: 15 May 2019 08:30 AM PDT

Broccoli aftermath

Posted: 15 May 2019 09:33 PM PDT

Can anyone tell if this is a girl or boy?

Posted: 15 May 2019 01:58 PM PDT

Hello gorgeous

Posted: 15 May 2019 10:34 AM PDT

Has my goldfish passed away?

Posted: 15 May 2019 02:34 PM PDT

 The title of this may sound really stupid, but I am genuinely confused. I've had this guy for about 3 years, however I adopted him from has former home and he is most likely a lot and older. I came home one day to find that my Wakin was swimming around on his side, and assumed that he had swim bladder. I isolated him very gradually into a "hospital tank" with a higher temperature and excluding the swim bladder seemed to be acting normal. I decided that the best course of action from there was to cease food intake for around three days and then taper him back on to a meal schedule with some cooked, skinned, peas. He continued to seemingly improve, however early in the morning on the 3rd day I found him flipped over on his side completely limp, and not breathing at all. I took a few seconds to examine him closely, and I can say for sure he was definitely not breathing but had the colour and appearance that he had been alive just a few minutes earlier. I was kinda freaking out so I resorted to what I had been told and try to open up his gills as gently as possible whilst messaging his stomach very lightly to his perhaps encourage flow? I stopped often to see if anything had happened (with little to no hope) and thought I saw that his gills were moving for a couple seconds but now I realise that from the way it appeared this was just water current. Of course eventually I stopped, realising there was nothing of benefit that I could do, as he was limp and completely unresponsive. So I left him alone for a while, checking up on him every so often and decided to leave him in his tank for another day out of desperation ( thats what I had done before) . When I returned very late the following evening, I looked in his tank to find that there had literally been no change in the sense that, he looked exactly the same with no sign of decay. I left him again and continued to check on him, it has now been about

4 1/2 days since I found him unresponsive and he is still in the same position, completely intact and with the same bright healthy looking colour. Not even any bloating. I'm still confused as to what caused the swim bladder, and am now concerned he might still be alive some how.

tldr; my wakin fish has been seemingly dead for about 4 1/2 days now from a bad case of swim bladder that wasn't resolved with treatment. He is still in p e r f e c t l y preserved condition and I'm now afraid that I'm going to accidentally host a memorial service for a fish that's actually alive.

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New / Old tank and cycling advice.

Posted: 15 May 2019 07:46 AM PDT

Hi,

After recently stumbling upon this sub aswell as r/plantedtanks I've been bitten by the fish bug... And fortunately become aware that our current tiny tank is way too small for our two little fancies!

So please forgive my lack of knowledge and awareness.

Although Im aware the new tank will not be big enough long term, it's intended to be a interim solution for a few months, due to an up coming house move, and space constraints, after which a much better and bigger set up will follow believe me!

Anyway intro over, I'm seeking advice from this knowledgeable sub with regards to getting the new tank up and running asap to make the fishies abit more comfortable.

The current tank is 25 litres with a fluval filter unit, a couple of small rocks and a small fake plant.

The new, second hand tank hopefully being collected this weekend is a 55 litre 'aqua one 40'.

My current thinking is as follows;

  1. Throughly clean the new tank, and fill about 50% with treated water.

  2. 50% water change of the old tank, which will be added to the new tank and place a spare filter media in the old tank to float around.

  3. Replace the filter media in the old tank after a few days and add old filter media to the new tanks filter sump.

  4. Remove the old tanks decoration (rocks and plant have a light green growth I assume is beneficial) and add to the new tank.

  5. Gradually add more treated water to the new tank.

  6. Swap fish over to their new home.

I will be testing water quality regularly along the way also.

Thanks in advance for your advice.

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