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I was hoping so, too. It's been bordering on success for a few days now. I shall look forward to getting them moved (but not to cleaning their old tank out! :( ).

I'm bringing an old "retired" tank back into use and have been doing a fishless cycle for the past 35 days. Now, I have done a few of these before, so you'd think I should know the answer....but I am finding that my ammonia and nitrite readings are reaching zero together, but in about 30 hours...

Thanks for the inputs, any further ones I hope to be back online later. All appreciated.

The bobbing to the top isn't persistent, minute by minute; it's less than that, but still puzzling. Water parameters don't suggest anything but I have changed the water a lot over the past week. The ONLY thing I can think of...and it's just come to me this morning...is the possibility that the...

That is how I would calculate it, yes. It is not unusual for our tap water to have a low nitrate reading; most times it is zero, but springtime I have noticed that, for whatever reason, it rises a little bit. Never been a problem, though. Goldfish still passing stringy droppings, with occasional...

That's reading 0-5ppm.

Wouldnt have considered that, for a goldfish. I don't let my tropical tank go much over that, but never had issues with 20-40ppm in a coldwater. If it starts heading for 40, I change.

Nitrite 0, Ammonia 0, Nitrate 10-20ppm. Test kits (liquid+ test tube, not strips) are still in date, although I do have new ones coming for nitrite and ammonia. A large 50% water change was done yesterday, and that followed a 30% one from a few days previously. Still just the one loach...

Just a little update. Not much change in goldfish behaviour, now on more "greens" and passing thinner strings. Haven't fed much flake. However....one of the loaches yesterday exhibited red sores on the bases of its front fins and also small red inflammation patches behind each gill. I then...

Had given up hope of an answer....but thanks. I'm planning a second water change tomorrow, as it happens. Dont know what to do with the [at]Colin thing, though....is it an email? Fish is about the same, reasonably perky but still loafing on the bottom after brief swim-around and a bit of...

Been a long time since I was here....fish have been doing well! But I have a puzzle now. My old goldfish has been slouching in the tank corner, seemingly a bit constipated. He's on day two of a very light diet of shelled pea, just in case. But every so often he gets up and makes a dash for the...

I think the lump has been there for a couple of weeks; it must have been very tiny to start with; I didnt notice it straight away. I'll look for a general purpose treatment as you say...there's no over-the-counter antibiotics here. If it's a tumour, don't know what will handle that (nothing...

I think my camera has a continual shot mode, I'll need to find it....I'm not much of a photographer, I'm afraid. Here's another one, but I'll keep trying...will try and post later.

Yes I'm sorry for the blurring but unless I nail the fish down to a bench to take the photo, it's kind of difficult. I've already processed the photos with unsharp mask in Gimp to try and help with that. I might have another go later on...photographing, that is....