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Hi GoldFishInfo.com,

I just had to say what a fantastic website you have. I am just in awe, blown away, amazed, and so so impressed (and in this the times of the Internet where any sod can have a website, this is a BIG compliment). :o)

I have found your website so incredibly useful. I have recently bought goldfish and noticed that they were not acting as healthy fish should. I googled ‘white spots on gold fish’ and your website came up. I haven’t even referred to any of the other website references because yours has been so informative and useful. I now know that one of my fish has Ick, and unfortunately the other little girl died, from what I am assuming is swimbladder or ammonia poisoning (although she didn’t look well from the moment I walked out of the shop with her - I think the tanks at the pet shop we bought her from were contaminated).

Anyway, that’s my story, but I really just wanted to say how beneficial and useful your website has become to me over the past week. It is fantastic! I love it and if I knew someone who could get you guys more exposure I would be calling them right now! I unfortunately don’t but I will be telling everyone animal lover I know about your website!

Thanks GoldFishInfo.com…please don’t go away like most of the genuinely good websites tend to do!

Christina Vinson

Brisbane, Australia

I LOVE YOUR SITE.THE INFORMATION ON GLODFISH ANSWERED ALL MY QUESTIONS WITHOUT HAVING TO BUY SOMETHING OR ANSWER A MILLION QUESTIONS BEFORE ANSWERING MY QUESTION. THANKYOU FOR THE INFORMATION AND I WILL PASS IT ON TO MY FRIENDS!!!! THANKS AGAIN, CINDY

Just wanted to let you know what a helpful site you have. I have had an aquarium now for 6 months and have done tons of research on the internet to make sure I am looking after them (goldfish) properly. I think your site has given the most detailed and helpful information. We are learning. I am sure I will keep coming back. Thanks....J Kennedy

Dear Lyn Duedall,

I would like to thank you for your internet site on Goldfish, especially for the detailed information on fish diseases and their treatment. Here in Holland I have searched at many different places for this kind of information but it is hard to find anything appropriate. The general idea seems to be that fishes that are ill can hardly ever be treated unless they have white spots (the only disease for which I can buy a medicine at our local petshop). Unfortunately my fishes only suffer from other diseases! So thank you very much and good luck with your site! Renate Rijgersberg

Congratulations for your web page! Here in Spain I recommended it to all my friends, and they also recommended it, and so now it is known everywhere. I would say that it is the best web page about goldfish I've ever been to. I'd like you to meet my goldfish, not so espectacular as the ones I've seen here, but they are well looked-after. Congratulations, Kisses from Spain, Gaua (here are some photos of her fish)

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" Common goldfish"
"Black Moor"

"Comet"

Hello,

Im Nique, and I have 3 comet fish. Before them, I had 2 speckled mollys, but the died *sniff* Then my dad bought me the 3 comet fish and we also got a new tank and new supplies. I wanted a fresh start! Its been almost a year now, and my lovelys are doing fine! They have gotten so big too! Pretty soon I will need to buy a bigger tank! Thier names are Fran,Neil and Turkish. Fran and Neil were named after to members of my favorite band, 'Travis' And Turkish is named after Jason Stathams charecter in the movie 'Snatch'. Oh and I also wanna say I love your site very much and it has helped me and my fish a great deal! And your site is credited on my 10th grade sciene project on Common Goldfish diseases and how to Treat Them! --Fish fan Nique

We were searching for info about our little gold fish Cleo whom we have had for a little over a year now. she had begun to sit on the bottom of her tank and we had no idea what caused it. Thanks to your site we now can get her trated. You saved her life and our family still has our little Cleo. Thanks.

The Warren Family

By the way we feel like a vacation feeder we put in her tank caused a whole bunch of problems. We started getting algea and she became ill shortly after we used it. I think it contaminated our tank.We will NEVER use one of those again.

Hello

The site i vistited was your goldfish site.It is excellent .I have been on others ones ,but yours is superior to all the rest.Keep up the good work please.

sincerely Elizabeth

Just wanted to let you know that I found your website to be so helpful. We just purchased two oranda's, a red-cap and a black one. We bought our 3 year old daughter a 10-gallon tank for her birthday, set it up, then 3 days later brought home our new friends. I sincerely love them and want to take proper care of them. I credit your website for suggesting I get an air stone. I bought the 12" air "wand", they love it!!!!!!! I am even looking into investing into a 20 gallon for the 2 little guys (spoiled and brat), I want to get a couple african frogs after that tank cycles too. Keep up the great work, and thank you. RSIM@MAIL.NYSED.GOV

WE GOT"THE FABULOUS MISS FISH" 3 YRS AGO THIS PAST MAY 1ST. MY HUSBAND AND I WERE SEATED AT A TABLE AT MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING, AND MISS FISH WAS IN A BOWL OF BEGONIAS ON THE TABLE! AT THE END OF THE EVENING, I SAID TO MY HUSBAND, "SHE'S COMING HOME WITH US" TO WHICH HE SAID "SHE WHO????" AND TRIED TO DISSUADE ME! LONG STORY SHORT, SHE IS NOW THE LOVELIEST COMET ON EARTH ALL 4 INCHES OF HER, AND TOTALLY FEARLESS...SHE EATS OUT OF OUR HANDS, AND COMMUNICATES BY SMACKING AND POPPING NOISES ON THE SURFACE OF THE WATER TO GET OUR ATTENTION! SHE LIVES IN SPLENDOR IN A 30 GALLON TANK WITH HER FRIEND "FINNY" THE KOI (A WALMART GOOF~HE WAS IN WITH THE GOLDFISH!), (NAMED "MY COUSIN FINNY" BY MY PUNNING HUSBAND), AND "ROSIE" A CALICO FANTAIL. WHO WOULD EVER THINK SUCH A LITTLE THING COULD BE SUCH A WONDERFUL PET?! GREAT SITE!:)! LISA & BILL

Like many others I started my 45 gallon tank with "feeders" from the local pet store. I had big plans for stocking my tank with exotic fish once the feeders had accomplished their suicide mission of estabishing the nitrogen cycle. Much to my suprise the feeders suvived. They are now about nine months old, 5 to 7 inches long. They are extremely hearty, vigorous fish and are overjoyed to see me walk thru the door in the evenings. It puzzles me as to why goldfish are held in such low regard by so many fish keepers. tucker.p.ray@mail.sprint.com

Thanks for your wonderfully helpful site. I wanted to talk to you about our family's new experience with fish tanks so this will be lengthy. I don't expect you to put it on your website unless you want to share parts of it. Some of it is funny. A few months ago a neighbor gave us a fully equipped aquarium with 5 gold fish (we think three are Orandas, the two others are similar in color but slimmer with plain tails)and a Molly. We carried everything home in buckets, including the water. It has a great Tetra Whisper carbon filtration system which we change when it looks really dirty. We keep the water at around 68 degrees. Problems and Solutions: !The molly died almost at once, probably from the stress of moving. !Algae got really bad. We learned that keeping the light on for long periods made it grow so we turned the light off for most of the day and used an algaecide, but it did not improve very much so we got a gorgeous, sharklike, algae eater and he kept so clean there was no more algae for him to eat. Now we encourage a little algae just for him. !We noticed that a lot of the food was wasted on the bottom because the goldfish ignored it when it went below a certain point. We picked up three tiny catfish (compatible with the cooler water preferred by the golds)and that solved that. The bigger fish noticed them feeding and decided they were missing something so now they compete with the catfish for bottom food too. ! At one point we noticed the fish were acting more sluggishly than normal. We called Walmart's pet department and were given the suggestion that there might be too much ammonia in the water so we should change it by removing and replacing about a third of the water. That worked real well. In doing so I realized that it would be a nuisance to remove the whole apparatus on top of the tank every time I want to change the water so I improvised a siphon from a short piece of rubber tubing (from an enema bag). I cut it to about 15 inches in length and by submerging it completely in the tank (to remove all air) and carefully lifting one end with my thumb over it to maintain the vacuum, and making sure the other end stays submerged, I was able to drain the water into large plastic jug with a handle for easy disposal. My water system filters out chemicals so I was able to use the same jug to replace the water without getting special water for the tank. (*I have a question about that however) !One of the Orandas seemed terribly bloated and behaved rather comically by hanging upside down and even sleeping that way so that he seemed dead at times. He rapidly got worse to the point that he was struggling to get down from the top and exhausted, and pop back to the surface. Our son researched the problem and learned about air bladder disorders, and since it seemed healthy and active otherwise, he concluded the problem was constipation. He started feeding lightly cooked peas with skins removed (they loved it) and saw an improvement, but he got worse again so he started massaging the fishes belly which we thought was hysterical (picture a burly truck driver coming off the road and nursing a goldfish half the night). He said he couldn't stand watching it suffer anymore so he had to do something. Also, we now soak the food in a tiny container before feeding. The darn thing is much better and acting normal. My grandson says he's not fat any more, just "tall". The literature indicates that overfeeding, and feeding too much starch contributes to the problem. Our whole family has been enjoying our fish experience, and now are thinking of starting an outdoor pond. Thanks for providing so much helpful information. Pris D.

First of all, I would like to say "Great Job!" on one of the most informative and helpful Goldfish websites on the net. Thank you for speaking out against keeping goldfish in bowls! I read some of the emails that other people have posted regarding problems they had with their goldfish, and I think I can help. The Aug. 2003 issue of 'Aquarium Fish Magazine' had a wonderful article on bloating in goldfish (page 62). Perhaps you could find it and post it on your site, but I will summarize it here. I experienced the same problem with my black moor: he looked bloated, couldn't swim properly, etc. I also noticed that he had 'bubble poops' and thought this odd. Turns out the problem was not a swim bladder issue, as is often thought when the fish cannot swim properly. Although these are more common in goldfish because of the extensive (and sometimes deformative) inbreeding, the real reason is that goldfish have no stomach! They actually have just a long, winding intestinal tract, which can become easily blocked with food particles that are too large, or dry food particles that were eaten too quickly and began to absorb water inside the fish's gut. Untreated, this can quickly lead to internal bleeding, serious bacterial infections and is always fatal. Solutions include heating the tank up to the mid 70's (F), adding more aeration, adding 1 tsp. kosher (pickling) salt per gallon and 1 tsp. Epsom salts per 10 gallons of water, pre-soaking foods before feeding, feeding several small meals per day instead of one large feeding, and, if the fish is still able to eat, feeding medicated antiboitic foods. The 'bubble poops' my Moor had were a sure sign that a blocked intestine was the problem. (My local aquarium experts say that Black Moors are expecially prone to this problem). So I always keep my tank at 75 degrees, feed small pellets (I had been using larger 'goldfish crumbles' by Wardley), feed less more frequently, and keep 1 tsp. of kosher salt per gallon of water in my tank. My Black Moor did live through the ordeal, and now he will occasionally still swim strangely, but he seems to work it out. I would also like to see you post on your site the fact that cloudy water within a couple days of setting up a new tank is NORMAL. In fact, it is GOOD, because it is actually a bacteria bloom of the beneficial bacteria that break down Ammonia and Nitrites. Water changes only make the cloudiness worse, as they get rid of the bacteria and then it just blooms again. It will clear up by itself in a couple days as the biological filter gets established. Yes, some foods also cloud the water, but I use Hikari's goldfish pellets, and they are pink (I am referring to the emails you have posted regarding pink pellets and cloudy water), and I have no problems with cloudy water at all. It is crystal clear. One way to help the cloudiness disappear, or to have it never appear at all, is to add bacteria starter to your tank when you set it up. I hope this information will be helpful to others who visit your site, should you choose to post it. Thanks! Sara.

Thanks for sharing such a great site with the world. I'm about to move my over-crowded fantails (five) from a 35 gal hexagon to a rectangular 75 gallon. Attaching a picture of Dorothy, Dorky, Einstein, Edison, and Co. Since this photo was taken I've put large "Mexican Beach Pebbles" on the bottom rather than the smaller rocks because the telescope eyes (don't think they are as smart as their names), Einstein and Edison, kept getting the rocks stuck in their mouths. The solid orange ones (D and D) we've had for two years, Co (smallest/non-telescope calico) for almost as long, and the "scientists" for a year and a half. Enjoy looking around the site... Sincerely, Carrie in Alabama, USA

Hello there. I was searching for a web site on goldfish on google and I came across your web site. I am writing to you because I wanted to compliment you on your site. I think it is excellent! Very informative! I found out exactly what I wanted to know. Thank you! I was interested to discover that feeder fish too can live healthy in a tank. I have had a lionhead for a year now and it seems that all of the other fish I have purchased to put in with the lionhead die. I have had snails, plecos and guppies in the past. Now I am looking into getting a few more kinds of goldfish. This is why I'm doing the research.I will be sure to return to goldfishinfo.com soon! Have a good day! Melissa

Hello Just to say thank you for your marvellous site; a true labour of love.. I wanted to find out why my goldfish was changing colour.. and now I know! Thank you once again. Your site is now bookmarked well & truly! Regards, Pen of England

Hello, Finally!! A website that I love about goldfish care! I bookmarked this as one of my favorites. Your site is full of great info and I am so happy that I found it!! My fish are turning 7 years old and because of websites like yours I can spot illnesses quickly and medicate the fish immediately. THANK YOU for being a fish lover! PJ

Acquired six goldfish quite by accident this was nine years ago, now the biggest is fourteen inches long and the smallest around eleven, recently my largest fish (oscar) started to change colour, he is now completely white and is a magnificent specimen, i have learned so much over the years on sites like yours keep up the good work! john

Hi --Your site is extremely helpful! I'm in the process of establishing a new tank, and it's a precarious job. Your information is great. Thank you!

Dear Lyn , Thank you so much for your time,, its really appreciated, By the way , the Glimmering Goldfish site , is wonderful and really up to date, thanks so much for sharing it with all of us , Pam Demers

I just wanted to write you a note to tell you thank you very much for your very thorough and interesting website! My 4-yr. old daughter has a much beloved goldfish as a pet and she wanted to know if it was a male or female. I was not sure that we would be able to find out, but then I found your website! Your site is so complete, I was very impressed. I was also happy to see the information that can be used if the fish ever gets sick. We want to take the best care we can of this family pet. Thank you again! Jennifer

YOUR WEBSITE IS WONDERFUL AND VERY INFORMATIVE AND SIMPLE AND TO THE POINT...THANKS!! TALINA

This has to be one of the best websites that I have ever seen for goldfish info. I was having difficulties and had questions that I could not get answered. I found all my answers here and more thank you Rebecca Neikirk. I' am glad that you are here and look forward to my fish now that I know I can get help.

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My wife and I have a pond with 2 comets and 3 chubunkins, along with 3 new babies. Your web site has been extremely helpful in providing us with the information to keep our babies in a new aquarium for the winter while the adult fish will stay in our pond. Thank you Duane & Mary Lynn St. Germain

Your Fish website is extremely good! You did an awesome job and it must have taken you a long time to create. thank you so much and keep up the fantastic work!

I just got my fish today. I was so happy! I hope they have a good long life. This is the greatest site ever! Please put this on your site!

I wanted to say thank you for all of your help! I wrote about Tom and said I wasn't sure if he'd live...Well!! He did! It is all so wonderful knowing that I could save him a second time. The guy at the petshop told me that he wouldn't live at all, I have no chance but because of you guys, I was able to save my goldfish. I can't thank you and God enough! Rachael

Congratulations! I've been wandering on the internet for weeks looking for information about goldfishe's deseases before finding your site! Unfortunally not in time because my 4 fishes are dead, but from now on, thanks to you, I now much more about them and next time I'll do better!!! I'm sending a picture of my (dead) blackmoor anyway.... wasn't it adorable? :-( Rossella (Italy)

I love your website. I have gained valuable info from this site. I am a new goldfish owner ,and have many concerns and questions that have been answered , thanks to you.

I just wanted to thank you for having wonderful and very accurate info about caring for goldfish on your site! You saved my precious Mr. Gordo, a large (7 inches) Oranda. He was recently donated to a petstore, and I took him home, only to discover he had trouble swimming, and wouldn't eat. I took the "pea" advice, and he gobbled them up. The very next day he was swimming better. I am so pleased that he is feeling a bit better, and I will continue feeding him peas until he is totally healthy and able to swim. :) Amy

Greetings! Still love the site, I come here for every little thing that ever happens to my tank. I currently still have all three of my babes: a Red and white oranda named Beelzebub, a orange/red fantail named Lucifer, and a solid gold w/ white tail fins (now, he had black on him when I bought him, thus the name) fantail named Black Beard. I never name fish cutize stuff, when I do, they always die.(Drizzit's Pet, a beta, died last week after 8 months) Beelze is about 19 months now, almost 4 inches. Luc is the runt, he's only 2.75 inches and about 12 months old. Blackie is 9-10 months old and almost 4.5 inches. They all live in a nice 20 gal tank with two very small twin male guppies (Tequila Sunrise guppies). Just recently I noticed Beelze had a patch of white 'fluff' on the top of his head, right before his scales. I treated him with an antifugal med and then changed the water. Now, two weeks later, I turn on the light and whoa......he's got a small cut on his head and the 'fluff' is back. Strange thing is he's eating, swimming fine, not hiding, or acting in any way sick. Checking thru your site I have hopefully figured out what I can do to save my Beelze. I changed the water, added salt, checked the PH (which was off the scale) and the ammonia (which was alittle high, but not too much). I'm gonna pick up an antibiotic and some different food and hope he survives this. In fact, this is the third time I've almost lost him. During a hurricane (Sept 2003) which knocked out the power for 6 days, I had to keep changing their water: twice a day and hand aerating it. During one water change........I couldn't find Beelze. ANYWHERE! I thought to myself, "I flushed him down the toilet." I was heartbroken and my boyfriend promised to get me a new one once the power returned. Low and behold, the lights returned the next day and after we returned home, there was Beelze, swimming around with his tank mates like nothing happened. To this day, I can't figure out where he was hiding. His first brush with death was shortly after buying him and my boyfriend's goldfish, Golden. I didn't know anything about goldfish, so I stuck them both in a 5 gal tank with several small male guppies. Within days, my boyfriend's fish had died of ammonia poisoning (as well as all of the guppies), but Bellze survived (barely - he was gasping at the bottom of the tank, I took him out and thru him into a bucket w/ a airstone). Love the site and keep it up and running, for all of us who have to watch after our scaly babes. -Sammn- (photo)

Thank you so much for your website. Our goldfish "Snuggly" is now 3 years old and is currently ill. I am trying some of the suggestions I have found in your site and keeping my fingers crossed. I am not sure if he is suffering from swim bladder disease or dropsy. I love the letters from the other fish lovers and I am now far more hopeful for Snuggly's survival. Thank you, Eva

Just a note to say, I go to your web site regularly when I have a question or an issue with my (or actually my works) fish tank. We take the information on the net for granted I think, so I thought I would take the time to say thank you. That's all! Kind Regards, Sam

Thank you so much for this website. My daughter just noticed a parasite on her fish that she’s had for three days and within 15 minutes we had diagnosed the problem and flushed the fish lice down the toilet. Information is a wonderful thing! Thanks again!

I just wanted to let you know how much we appreciate your website. One of our precious fish got a severe case of fin rot and a secondary fungus infection. We thought we might have to flush him (much to the despair of our 2 year-old). We hit your site and found out that it was not only treatable but easily fixed. Blinken is now doing well and we expect his tail to grow back in the near future. You might think it's crazy to spend 10 dollars to cure a 50 cent goldfish but it's amazing what you can get attached to. With much thanks Lynne mother of Morgana

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