Found this lil dude abandoned at the end of the night on a picnic table. He or she is about 4 cm long, they’re in a 10 gallon freshwater with a filter and plenty of hidey holes. Ive been giving him Aqueon goldfish flakes. Need some advice though. I’ve named him Branch.
Hey! I’m looking for some advice on a bit of a situation here. Some context: I currently have a 5 gallon planted tank that used to house a beta fish that unfortunately died back in September. Since then I wasn’t sure what to do with the tank, whether to get a new fish or scrap it.
However, through round a bout way and convoluted story, I volunteered to take 3, what seems to be comet???, gold fish today from a friend who would not be able to keep them.
My concerns are that I live in an apartment and can only have up to a 10 gallon tank per my leases restrictions. I was planning on going shopping tomorrow to purchase a 10 gallon tank, as after doing some initial research into these fish after procuring them today, I realized I’m going to need a MUCH bigger tank than my current 5 gallon.
However, I’m reading that they need up to at least 20 gallons as they continue to grow and I unfortunately cannot support that in my current apartment.
What should I do? Can they live reasonable in a 10 gallon? Should I surrender them to a pet store? Any advice is helpful as I want to do my best to make sure these 3 little guys are taken care of one way or another!
TLDR: have 3 new gold fish but can only have up to a 10 gallon tank in my apartment 🙏🏻
Also, I did not buy them like this. This is how they came from the person I got them from.
This is my 240L, home to 5 goldie boys during the winter.
I trim the plants like once a month, I guess they really like the goldfish poop 🤷♀️
I love my little fishies so much 🧡
Tank: 150L + Aqua One Aquis CF700
- driftwood
- live plants
- gravel substrate
- 2yr old tank
Perimeters:
Ammonia: 0ppm
Nitrite: 0ppm
Nitrate: 0ppm
pH: 6.4
Fish: Fancy goldfish x2
Ginger: fantail
Taco: Oranda
Ginger’s tank mate named Mango recently died from a swim bladder issue (i think) without any warning. I constantly test my water using the API Master Test Kit, and haven’t had any issues with water perimeters so it was unusual. Mango had very mild pineconing but was mostly struggling to stay upright and ended up constantly rolling onto his side. I had noticed that since I put in a new piece of driftwood and started to notice tears on Ginger’s tail, so took it out, dried it and sanded it down so it was smooth. Ginger then had started to develop black marks on his fins and more tears.
I ended up getting Taco last week and it’s in the past few days that I have noticed Ginger starting to pineconing and the ends of his fins starting to stick together into points. He’s been perfectly fine in terms of eating and balance, though resting slightly more.
Again, the water chemistry is perfectly fine. However I have just remembered that there was a small amount of metal stuck into the driftwood as the shop had stapled a tag onto it. Would that be able to have any impact in terms of water chemistry?? I’ve just removed it.
Please let me know if anyone has any solutions or suggestions to help my little fishy!! Thank youuu
I’ve attached some photos of Ginger’s condition but my phone camera isn’t great so I couldn’t get one of his pineconing.
Won a carnival goldfish unexpectedly but I wanna give him the best shot. If he makes it through the night (I won him way too late to go anywhere else) I'll be going to Petco. I know a bit about what I need, 20 gallon, water conditioner, filter, etc, but I'd love a better list that won't break the bank.
Let me know exactly what I'll need that Petco carries
About 10 months ago I became a first time fish owner - 1 Oranda & 1 Black Moor. Our Oranda got really sick in the beginning & I just knew it was gonna die but luckily, she pulled through thanks to the infinite information & advice from this sub. So thank you! Pics from almost a year ago when she was so sick vs pics from last night.