Black Moore Goldfish

Don't know why Perdido has an orange spot cause I have looked and looked and don't see it on him. The good news is he is healthy and eating well. The Jellybeans are also still alive and well. I am so thilled.

Black fish

Are so hard to get pictures of. Lol I need a new light for this tank too but this picture at least gives an idea how Perdido looks.

I fell in love with him cause of the tail. So far he is doing well in the 10g tank. He only eats off the bottom of the tank. This is going to make it somewhat harder to teach him to eat out of my hand. But that is the only way I think I can move him in with the others when I get my new tank in December. I guess he can live in the 10g if he never learns but would like to see him with my other goldfish. Only trouble is my others never let food hit the bottom of the tank and he would not get to eat.

The JellyBeans (Sand Dollor and Foley) are doing great. They are looking for food so I guess I should feed them. hehe

Pet Station USA

This was in Foliy Alabama. Wish we had a pet store as nice as this one.

Pic of the Jellybeans

Got a good picture of them last night. Need to try again on the goldfish none of the pictures I did last night did the fish justice.

Back from vacation.

Well I had someone sitting the house but I basic threated to kill her if she touched my 75 g tank. I was afraid she would over feed and with the tank problems I was having that would be bad.
But maybe I should of at least explained the water heaters to her. It seems something (I think my cat) bumped my heater and now 6 of my 7 cory cats are dead and three more rainbows. On top of that the bodies are no where to be found so I guess the parrot fish ate anyway.
I tested the water and it is perfect other then the temp being 94 degrees.
On the bright side I come home with three new fish. I found a great pet shop and we stopped on the way home and got me 2 jellybean parrot fish and one black moore with a broadtail.
That over stocks my 30g for now but I have a 1o that is cycling and Ill move it to there in a few weeks. That well work out till I get my new 36g bow front I have my eye on.
Also not a trace of ich in the 75g with the water that high for so long maybe it is gone for good. lol

Its gone again

Woot the ich is gone again. Wonder for how long? lol Looks like for a while I need to treat for ich everytime I change the water. Cause that is when it seems to show up.
I have also bumped the tank to 84 may leave it that high for at least two weeks. Then maybe lower it if I am still ich free.
It has been years since I have had do deal with this and it is a pain. Now I know why some bigginners never get into fish keeping. This ich makes you want to throw fish and tank out the window.
So glad I didnt lose any fish.

Almost gone again

For some reason I have one little fish that the ich wont come off off. It seems they like his taste or something. I have one more dose of meds Im suppose to give. The meds has ruined the look of my tank by turning stuff blue but I had to do something different to get rid of the ich. The ich attack wasnt doing it.
But at least all my fist are still alive. The parrot fish seem to enjoy the higher temptures. It makes their color so much brighter. But of corse my poor cories hate it. Maybe they could get use to it. At this point Im afraid if I lower it the ich well return and I am so sick of that stuff.
On the other hand my other two tanks look great. This picture is of my baby Rykin. Nope no name. Normally I dont name my fish. The only fish I have right now that has a name is my betta Shimmer. Oh ya and the star of my Parrot fish tank is of course Star. Maybe in time the others well grow names too.

Ich again and again and ....

I am so sick of this. If I didnt have a the dang parrots this tank would be broke down and I would start over. My rainbows are covered in ich and I have lost one of them already. I am using a different treatment this time in hopes to get it gone and keep in gone. It suppose to be a one dose treatment but from the looks of things Ill have to treat again later this morning. Only problem is right now the city has a boil water adversary out so it is going to take forever to change out the 25 % I need to do before the next treatment. Maybe if I do a halfdose and not change out any water?

Slow Fish

The fish in the 75g seem a little slow this morning. Maybe they are having just as much trouble waking up as I am. Is there any such thing as fishie coffee?

Wish I still had the fish pictured here but I lost all of my goldfish I had two years ago. Moslty to electicty being out and then gave away several cause I got what my husband calls "old tank syndron(sp)" I have got to stop doing that. I have way to much money in fish this time so need to keep these.

My gold fish this time are all fantails. All two of them in my 30g hope they are hardier then the last ones I had. I can get one more and I have been eyeballing the rykins. Those are my fave. But I dont like the short tails I have been seeing at my lfs's.

BP's Laid eggs

lol no wonder they were hiding so much. Seems I have a boy and a girl. Sure hope they dont hatch I dont have the room for more. Maybe Ill take the clay pot out they had them in and clean them out later today. I kept calling the yellow one a girl now I know she is a girl. lol

Goldfish have feeling too.

From the Sunday Times
Goldfish have feelings too, say fish researchersJack Grimston
VETS are calling on goldfish owners to take better care of their pets after research finding that the creatures have long memories, may feel pain and can even pine for their owners when they are away.
They claim the idea that goldfish have memories of only three seconds is outdated. “The public probably think it’s a bit quirky, but owners and all veterinary surgeons need to take fish seriously,” said Richmond Loh, a vet from Launceston, Tasmania. He presented a review of fish awareness science last week to a conference of the Australian Veterinary Association in Hobart, Tasmania.
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The findings give some support for the arguments of Elliot Morley, the former environment minister, who argued for a ban on goldfish being given away at fairgrounds on the grounds of cruelty. He was forced to back down because Labour feared mockery in the run-up to the general election.
Among the studies cited by Loh was one carried out by British scientists in which fish learnt to push levers at particular times of the day to gain access to food. In another, two fighting fish were placed with an observer fish in a tank. For a long time afterwards the observer avoided swimming too close to the fish that had won the fight.
The studies also found substantial evidence that fish have the brain structures to feel pain and avoid dangers which may hurt them.
Loh said that many university committees looking at the ethics of experimenting on animals now gave equal consideration to fish.
In their paper — Ornamental Fish: Making Fish Smile, Sing and Dance — Loh and Matt Landos, his colleague, write: “Experiments on fish have examined the capacity of the fish to retain learnt information and be aware of consequences of certain responses . . . It has been established that fish do have some memory which can be recalled.”
Landos said: “We’re wanting to get the message out to vets to start looking more closely at fish and considering their welfare like they do other animals.”

Hiding

Well after little over two weeks the tank is now ich free. But the parrots are now hiding a lot. Guess they needed the clown loaches to feel safe. Maybe nest week Ill get some rainbows.