No probs I'll keep my fingers crossed that your filter shows up soon!

My goldies are a shubunkin called Indigo, who is nearing 6 inches in length and will hopefully soon be going to his new home in my friends pond.
A ranchu called Gabrielle who is pure white all over and has a very sweet face
2 blackmoors named Salem and Dante - easy to tell apart coz Salem has a bit of a kink in his tail and Dante is nearly always munching away on the algae growing on the tanks 3D background.
And lastly a loopy blue oranda called Luna, who always comes to the surface to take her food from my fingers and lets me tickle her fins

They all live together in a 4 foot (200 litre) tank in my bedroom
There are some pics of them on my profile, though the photo of the tank is seriously out of date - I've had to replace the plants several times over coz they keep getting munched!

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Lol! I am impressed. TBH there are no decent goldfish suppliers in our area, they all seem to think aquarium fish are better!
Filter arrived, and the tank looks like it has had a 60 minute makeover, still a bit worried about Starsky as he was all white and now has like a blood red on him (blotchy!!) But today they have had there water chaneged, new tunnel put in and new plants Hopefully that should cheer them up, and altho I was going to get two more I have decieded as a responsible owner i will leave it at 2 so they can have more room. I am going to put an add of freee lister and hopefully a bigger tank will come up soon... Hopefully they will be ok in this tank (17litre) for a little while as they are not very big....

I am so pleased the filter came...

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Good news on the filter!

Hmm, that sounds like a water quality problem - to be expected really as they have been in the tank with no filter til now. I would continue to do daily partial water changes until you get your hands on a test kit - once you've got that at least then you'll know how things are going

Definitely keep your eye out for a bigger tank though, coz unfortunately the bigger the fish get the more problems you're going to encounter!

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Wow, what an improvement today when I got home, Starsky looks much better and they are both much livlier!! =)

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Yep, you've spotted the shubunkin - as you can see he's got a completely different body shape to the others and will grow much bigger than them, which is why he's going to eventually go to a pond. No tank will ever really be big enough for him, he is just so much more active than the others!

The one near the top is a blue oranda, and the white one at the bottom is a ranchu. Here's a slightly better pic of the ranchu - she used to be mostly gold in colour with only a little bit of white!

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I have a 180L tank that we got cheap as an ex display.
It currently has some plants on wood (species unknown I'm afraid) and a colloseum style feature.
Stock wise, we have:
2 x silver shark
1 x Siamese fighter
4 x platys (bright orange)
2 x dalmation mollies
2 x upsidedown catfish
2 x other small catfish (breed unknown but very pretty lol)
2 x dwarf gourami (male and female)
7 x algae shrimp
13 x various small guppies

I have only ever seen orange orandas - think that is what confused me...altho I did think Ornada when I saw the shape...

I have never heard of ranchu before are they rare over here?

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