Newbie with a fungus problem? Q FOR RAY
How old are they again? They are still pretty small by goldfish standards but it’s promising that they are growing so hopefully any stunting might be reversed. All of the PWC’s that you’ve been doing has constantly diluted/removed the hormone levels, that cause stunting in fish, so their hormone receptors think they are in a larger volume of water. While this will work when keeping big fish in an undersized tank, it’s a lot of work on the hobbyist. It’s a far more enjoyable hobby when the fish are in a large enough tank that you can at least get it down to weekly maintenance without the water quality and/or hormone levels becoming an issue.
I’ve read the studies of a hobbyist who put some juvi Oscar’s (14″, when full grown, large body cichlids) in 10G tanks that were plumbed to have a constant supply of fresh water flowing into one end and draining out the other end of the tank so the tanks had a 100% water change daily and the fish did not suffer any stunting. If these same fish were kept in a 10G with anything less, they would most certainly have suffered from stunting.
Goldfish are affected by stunting worse than some slow-growing fish (pleco’s, etc.) because goldfish do so much of their growing in their first couple of years… which is oftentimes when they are stuck in undersized tanks.
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