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Originally Posted by sullivan
Did you use any of the solutions that the fish shops use to utrelise the water they make it more fish safe. They are very good. This happened to one of my fish once it seemed to go into shock and some times you have to be careful with a sudden change of water as the temp drop can stress the fish out. You may find that in a day or so that your fish may start coming round a bit. As the tank settles and the bacteria starts to get back to normal. Good luck
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Hi, no I didn't use the tap safe solutions you can buy. We got the fish quite unexpectedly when my sister bought him and the tank for my sons Birthday
(She didn't even buy it any food!) As it was late in the evening I had no choice but to just fill the tank with straight tapwater. Couldn't leave him in his bag all night
Anyway, the tapwater seemed to have no effect on him at all, so I've just carried on with it for all the water changes. I know it's nothing to do with a drop in temperature as I literally moved the majority of the water from one tank to the other. The only water I didn't move over was the last bit from the gravel which was pretty much the same amount as I take out during a water change, maybe a bit less.
I'll get some tap safe when I go out in a minute and see if that combined with a 25% water change has any effect.
His fins now look like he has fin rot, but have heard this can happen with stress too? I don't want to start adding all sorts of medications to the water if I can avoid it as I know it can really mess with the water quality.
He's still lying there at the bottom of the tank. He's not even very interested in his food now
Are goldfish just a really hard pet to have? In the past I've done everything exactly by the book only to have them all belly up within a few months. Maybe I just have really bad luck?!
If he doesn't make it is there any sort of fish that would be easier to keep? All I can remember from my childhood fish is waking up every morning to yet another dead one. (I even have nightmares about it STILL! Pathetic I know!
) I don't want my son to dread looking in the tank as he grows up, but likewise now we've got the tank I'd like to keep a fish in it.
It's only a tiny size tank, 13 litres I think?