Recent content by caity

Thanks for the advice, everyone. But I'm afraid Ken just died. I appreciate your efforts.

Thank you very much. I will move him back to the tank. I poured a whole bottle of 'amtrite down' into the tank over the last week... will changing the water again mess with that? It's a live-bacteria product. According to the guy in the shop, it's supposed to eat all the ammonia and nitrate...

After seeing him struggling in the poisonous tank, I moved him to a very large ceramic bowl, where I am changing the water frequently. (about 20% twice a day for the last 2 days) After having him out of the tank for 2 days, will this mean that the tank water might now be more inhabitable...

Thank you evilchild. :sad: Going to head back to my local aquarium shop tomorrow and get a tester kit for this sort of stuff. A(nd yell at him for telling me not to bother with de-chlorinator!) I don't suppose there's any kind of emergency 'miracle cure'? This poor little fish, I really hope...

I think it's well oxygenated: I have a filter that spurts the water about 5mm above the surface - it causes bubbles and a light current. I also have a live plant in there, which I also thought would be good for that type of thing. I didn't use a de-chlorinator, no. I only just found out about...

If anyone could PLEASE offer me some advice, I'm desperate. (I've had Ken for three years and this has never happened before... and i don't actually know whether he's a boy-fish.) While I've had goldfish as pets most of my life, I honestly didn't know anything about the system of bacteria and...