[UniQuaria] Water change = dying fish
I visited a lot of fish shops before I found the one I like. The guy is always happy to give me advice and never actually tries to sell anything unless I ask for it - a good few times now I’ve gone into the store, chatted, and left empty handed. He seems to know what he’s talking about so I’m happy to drive across town to visit his shop rather than the local which is just 10 minutes down the road.
Regardless, I don’t think I was sold a bad fish. I’ve had the fish for a few months now and they’ve been healthy right up until this latest PWC (using tap water). I talked to a friend who also has fish which started dying just after doing a PWC using tap water. The lady that the fish shop owner was telling me about had kept her goldfish healthy for 8 years, and all of a sudden he got very sick, just after doing a PWC with local tap water. I’m pretty sure there’s something bad in our water supply.
Cheers, Daniel
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 1:23 PM, wrote:
> Welcome to this great site. My expirience is not all that I’m a begginer > myself however I don’t think you shoul mix goldfish with tropical freshwater > (tetras) another thing, you need to purchase your fish from a reliable > petshop. I had the same run in with my tank onece. Than I did some research > and was explained by my local fishshop that goldfish and feeder fish tend to > have deseases. Then he told me how to spot a desease selling petshop. > “Chain stores have a big tank wich shares all the water with all the tanks! > Some mom and pop petshops have the fish in individual fishtanks and that > keeps deases from contaminating other fish, also when your buying look > around all the fish and look for symptoms of fish deseases that will tell > you how they care of the poor little ones” as for now get rid of the gold > fish!!! > Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile > > —–Original Message—– > From: “Daniel Mundy” > > Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:40:28 > To:uniquaria > Subject: [UniQuaria] Water change = dying fish > > > Hi guys, I’m fairly new and this is my first post, but I’ve been lurking > for a few weeks. I have some goldfish, black tetras, zebras and a some white > zebra-sized fish whose name I don’t know. > > Last weekend I did a 25% water change using tap water and de-chlorinating > solution. Soon after, my fish started dying. They’ve been hanging around at > the top of the tank and aren’t swimming as much. The goldfish were losing > their colour, and most fishes fins were decaying, they looked like their > find were turning into spider webs. > > I lost a few more that night (including my girlfriend’s favourite > goldfish!) so I went to pet shop for advice and explained everything that > had happened - he said another lady came in just the day before with the > exact same story and concluded that there must be something in the tap > water. He gave me some general purpose fish medicine that’s designed for > bacterial and fungal diseases, and even though most of the tetras have since > died, the goldfish are getting healthier. The medicine turned my tank green > though! (guessing that’ll dissapear with enough water changes) > > So my question is - if I use bottled water for my next water change, do I > still need to use the de-chlorinating solution? What about with distilled > water (the local brewery has a tap for public access and a small fee, but I > need a bottle so will buy the bottled water the first time). > > Thanks, > Daniel > ———————————— > > To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/UniQuaria > > > Wish to Unsubscribe? I can’t imagine why but if you do, send a message to: > UniQuaria-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
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