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Possibly not but it may. Just keep the water conditions very good and wait and see. The fish will manage.

Just one eye? Possibly damaged it.

How many gold fish would you fit in a standard bath? Depends on whether you aerate and filter it. I wouldn't put more than 4. You can have more when they are small but they grow fast and poo lots. Do you need to keep the bath out of the sun? Preferably have it shaded part of the day or it will go green very quickly and you won't be able to see the fish. Do you need to have any water circulation or airation? No Do you need to feed much or do they mostly live off insects? No you don't nbeed to feed much. Yes they will eat insects falling in. Can you buy plants from garden centers or should I go trade me? Do both or gather oxygen weed from your nearest river Which goldfish varietes can live outside? specificaly shubunkins. As far as I know, "shubunkin" refers to the colouring. You can have different types of shubunkins. Comets are good outside and fantails and veiltails. Depends on where you live and how cold it gets in winter. Can gold fish live with WCMM or tadpoles? Yes, they will enjoy eating them very much Do you need a substrate? No

It is worth taking him in for someone to look at.

Feel free to stop by and say hello

They aren't that hard to come by in most areas. The tail will hopefully grow back if it wasn't chomped off too close to the base. It will be worth keeping alive if you don't put it back with the goldfish.

What do you have to look left for? :lol:

Anyone in ChCh and knows about goldfish able to visit nzlass and help? Clamped fins are a sign of stress. I can't see that you have done anything wrong. Although the tank had to cycle when you set it up, you did not overstock. Your feeding is good and so are the water changes. It could be at least one of the new additions had a disease and has spread it to the others

Most things I have read say it is incurable. I wonder if your SAE may be having digestive problems rather than dropsy perhaps?

Wow, sorry to hear you have been having problems. First, 31L is not really big enough to keep goldfish. They produce a big amount of waste and are very messy. Comets need a lot more room to swim too. I wonder if the original ragged fins was a result of ammonia poisoning. No way to tell at this stage now. How is Ron now?

It isn't worth leaving the better island for Pics from last molly hunt http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v144/ ... ?start=all

Why? Totally Tanked is a fish club, not tortoise club. :-?

It is a quarterly, full colour, 40 page, A5 size magazine published Feb, May, Aug and Nov. It is posted out free to all FNZAS members or available by subscription ($22 for 12 months).

Ah but I then publish it in our magazine - I don't keep it for myself. A lot of fishkeepers do not (believe it or not) have internet access so do not have the opportunity to see it here.

Here is the National Pest Plant Accord... http://www.biosecurity.govt.nz/files/pe ... manual.pdf

Looking good Simian. How about sending me a step by step on how you did it, complete with pics

And so the fun (and paperwork) behins! Good luck, we are following this with interest.

I had better add I have had that thing for many years now! :roll:

We got the siphon bit from The Goldfish Bowl in Hamilton if I remember correctly and then got extra hose from Mico Wakefield.

When I do a water change I siphon into 30L barrels. You could do this (to enable you to suck the crud up as well) then siphon from the barrel out the window (or down the bank). No lifting.

Here you go...

My hose is 9.5m and, as I said, it siphons too slowly over that length to have enough oomph to clean as it siphons. It is made up of 2 hose lengths, one short, with a tap between the 2 so I have to turn the tap closed then fill the short hose at the siphon end then drop the siphon underwater, then turn the tap open. This starts it siphoning. Too long to suck!! :lol:

Perren I have sent you a PM with information direct from Kong's for you.

We have a lot of cats move through our front garden and the poo everywhere! :evil: You have all seen the one who makes every attempt to get inside to catch Bud. We can't leave a door or window open. Several times now it has got into the garage and been locked in there. We don't realise until late at night when we can hear it in the roof. We have several stains in our hung plaster ceiling from when a wild cat got into the roof and refused to be caught. It kept peeing up there and that has come through the plaster :evil: The nurseryman looked like he had gone to a great deal of trouble to fence and cover his plants but you know what cats are like for getting through small gaps. I have every sympathy for him.

I have one of those things except mine is a pretty blue, not that bright green :lol: How well they work depends on how far away from the tank your tap is, how high the tank is compared to the tap, and how good your water pressure is. I do not use it to do water changes as I can't get enough flow to suck up the crud. I can use it to refill the tank but it is very slow as I have a very long distance for the hose to go, very little height difference between tap and tank, and low water pressure. Biggest problem is forgetting it is filling (takes up to 30 minutes to refill 60L) so I prefer to use buckets rather than look up from my book to see water flowing over the top of the tank