Help/advice About My 2 New Black Moors...

[claires_123]

I bought 2 black moor fish yesterday for my Biorb 30litre tank. Yesterday they were both happily swimming around - today one is still the same very active hovering around the front of the tank - but the other one which is a bit bigger than the other has sunk to the bottom and is just lying there - sometimes it will change positions or just lie in a different part of the tank - is this normal I thought black moor fish were quite active? I am 100% a novice at fish keeping so I could be paranoid over nothing? Please help me! Thank you.

 

[emma12321]

hi,

have a read of these topics

http/www.fishforums.net/content/Coldwate...-fish-in-tanks/

http/www.fishforums.net/content/New-to-t...shless-Cycling/

http/www.fishforums.net/content/New-to-t...Up-An-Aquarium/

welcome to the forum, theres lots to learn but i think you'll find everyone will tell you that you tank is no where big enough for the long term welfare of your fish.

Emma

 

[chesterscot]

firstly welcome to tff's you will learn alot from the people here and their happy to help read some of the pinned articles on in fish cycling they might help abit second i have to agree that long term your tank will be to small
scot

 

[waterdrop]

Welcome to TFF Claire!

The single most urgent thing for you to be doing while you seek advice here is to learn the proper skills of water changes and be performing them for your goldfish.

I would suggest at least 50% water changes daily, starting immediately, until you can learn about and acquire the proper water testing kit and give us feedback about your test results.

To water change, you siphon or dip the water out (later you will learn the skill of gravel cleaning during this water removal) and then you prepare the replacement water. The replacement water should (we'll assume for now your tap/source water is good!) be adjusted to roughly the same temperature (by just using your skin to roughly judge - that's good enough) and its very important that you add a conditioner to remove the chlorine or chloramines from it (you must pick this up at LFS if you don't already have.) Be sure to use enough conditioner, doesn't matter if it is slightly higher.. won't hurt anything.

OK, that's the first urgent thing, the water changes. Let us know you've absorbed that and the members will continue to help you. Long term, I'm afraid I have to agree that the advice will probably be disconcerting - I believe the goldfish folks often recommend 20 US Gallons for the first goldfish and 10 more US Gallons for each added one (learning this, one quickly sees why they are often more recommended as pond fish! But there is a forum of goldfish fanciers here, so they will have much more interesting viewpoints!)

~~waterdrop~~

 

[OldMan47]

Welcome to TFF Claires. The size tank that WD is talking about would be about 110 litres for your 2 goldfish. I know that sounds like a lot when they are small but goldfish get quite large. You have a good deal of work ahead of you getting through a fish-in cycle but it can be done without harming your fish. The 50% daily water changes may be overkill but right now we don't know because we haven't seen any test results. When I started with fish many years ago, we did not test water. We all relied on thumb rules about how much water to change how often. Some people had better luck with it than others be we never knew why. Now that we have the test kits available, nobody wants to go even a day in a cycle without testing to make sure everything is OK. The reality is probably somewhere in between but for outside help the testing is needed.