Hi Val I followed all the suggestions you gave about my oranda which insisted on swimming at the top of the tank. It has turned out to be a swim bladder...
Hi Pat, What medication did you use? Just interested, since you have had some success with it. Yes, it does seem that some fish are genetically much hardier...
Hi Valerie I have used a treatment from Interpet for swim bladder problems. It is used four times four days apart and works better with Aqualibrium Salt. The...
Where did you order Interpret in the US....it seems to be British product? Do you know what the active ingredient is? Larry Carmichael/Sacramento California,...
Hello Larry The Interpet is a British product and does not state all the ingredients on the package. It does, however, have a warning saying it contains...
Sounds like they are using it like a antifungal? Several of us have fish that tend to have swimbladder.....I have narrowed my fish down to diet. They tend to...
Hello Larry I would like to know what you feed your orandas on as I have tried various diets and, so far, not hit upon one which my oranda is really happy...
My ranchu has the same swimming baldder for the past few months. Feed her peas, also exhibit the same swimming problem. I finally cut down the amount of...
Hi Pat, I have had good success feeding a floaty ryukin shrimp pellets, soaked for around 10 minutes. This is the one thing she can eat and not float (expect ...
I have received help from Valerie and Teri on the diet that finally worked. I shell frozen peas and let them thaw in a little tank water in a cup with a couple...
I tried the undergravel program the "koiman" sold.....it really did not work for beans. Next week I am going to remove the plates, and power head....not sure...
Hi Larry, everybody; I had heard the undergravel filters were not good for goldfish......
probably in a tropical tank would be great, but my tropicals take so...
Hello everyone, I'm at a loss. Can adding live plants actually make your water quality worse? Lately the water has been cloudy no matter how many water...
HI Teri, Do the water changes in addition to what? Do I take the Amazon sword out? The weird thing is despite the cloudy water and sick fish, all the water ...
I'm sorry, I guess the first one I sent didn't go. I would check the filter box, if you've got rotting vegetation, it could be
stopping up your filter flow,...
Hi Melissa; Did you check your filter box? Sometimes I get a buildup of waste in the
filter box, and have to rinse it out. That can add a lot of extra toxins...
I actually did that earlier when I did the water change and vacuumed the gravel. They're moving around more, but the little one keeps clamping his fins every...
The live plant isn't decaying, but they keep pulling little pieces off that settle in the gravel and then start decaying. For some reason it only seems to be...
The red streaks come from Ammonia in the water, I believe, so you must not
be getting a good reading. The water changes should fix that. Are you
using one...
Melissa, I haven't had a problem with my fish eating my plants. I feed them blanched zucchini every second day or so, and maybe that satisfies them, or maybe...
I have started reading old posts and have learned a lot from them. Where have all the people gone or are they just not posting. It would be interesting to hear...
There is a wealth of knowledge on this page, that's for sure. I post off
and on, depending on how busy I am, I don't have a computer at home yet, I
sit at one...
hello i posted a few weeks back that i had a new shubunkin and she is really doing great! i got her a companion, a mostly dark gold colored comet just a bit...
I think they do enjoy each other's company, too. It can be quite touching at times :-) I am glad that your fish are doing well. What did you call the new...
As amazing as it may sound many people do not realize how easy it is to LEGALLY stop paying for their groceries! This is how the one hour television show began...
i am glad you rescued poor 'wormy' from the store where he was so sick. sometimes i look at the goldfish at petco and they are usually covered with ich and...
Poor little Wormy looked so pathetic with the anchor worm sticking out of his head right beside his eye. Anyway, that is gone and he has healed up well. It is...
