Hello all! My baby oranda (Larry) came with tail rot and ick. He has been living in a 10 gallon tank for the last two months. First I did Fungus Cure tabs, Ick guard, and raised temperature which got rid of the ick. then for the tail rot we did maracyn - 2 for 10 days. and Yeah! It seemed to be gone. Yeah!

Well the tank has been set up for 2 months now. I do water changes weekly - if not bi-weekly. 20-30% water at a time. I learned the hard way about over feeding. things get murky. Ammonia is ), Nitrite virtually nil, nitrate low. Ph is slightly alkaline out of the tap and hard. I usually replaced half the replaceent water with distilled.

The filter is a whisper. Small heating pad because the tank is in the stream of the airconditioner and stays at 71F. I changed the carbon filter a week and a half ago. there are living plants for Larry to munch on. He is an inch in body length excluding head and tail.

No new fish or plants. but it is the other side of his tail fin that is affected now. He does share with a fantail who i thought started ick over again but the white bumps haven't fallen off and they seem to be inflamming Fussy's tail fin. They came together from a leading retailer. I should've known better. Perhaps, I have thought, that Fussy got a bacterial infection which Larry has picked up or they are trading it.

Larry is growing and his tail was filling out beautifully before this relapse. His behavoir is more self assured becasue Fussy used to boss "him" around the tank. Fussy is probably the only ADHD goldfish. :} I'm thinking Fussy is a boy and Larry is a girl becasue very recently their interactions have displayed pseudo-sexual play. I think from what I have read that they are much too young to date.

they are on my desk at work and I watch them closely (some people in my office say that I 1) worry too much and 2) are getting obsessive.) I am starting to cycle the 55 gallon tank at home for them.

Enough about my fish. Thanks for listening at any rate.

Kristin

Hi and welcome.I would work on keeping all your Ammonia and Nitrite levels at zero ,and keep Nitrates under 20. You can also salt the tank to 0.1% if you'd like using Aquarium salt -1 teaspoon per gallon,and dissolving it into a little tank water before adding it.This may do the trick.Continue to watch though for any changes-new signs or symptoms.I think getting the 55 together will be a fantastic move for them.If you haven't allready bought a filter,my advice would be to make sure and buy something that has at least 10 X's filtration of your tank---therefore a 55 gal. would need at least 550 gph(gallons per hour). I have found that I keep all my tanks over the recommended size for Goldies are such piggies in water.
Good luck and keep us updated on the fish.

THanks for your input. Overall they are happy little fishy people. they have a variety of live plants to munch and pull out of the gravel. They re-aquascape often. they love their peas and the occasional sinking shrimp pellet. I will definately love having them at home in the 55 gal tank. The filter is rated for a 90 gallon tank - I don't remember the gph. I willl look into ASAP.

I have slowly salted the smaller tank and it is now at the reccomended salinity. They seemed to notice a difference when I first added the salt (1 Tablespoon) but now they do not seem to care.

Thanks again and I should get back to work, Kristin

I had recurring finrot with 2 of my baby moors. It was sooo hard to get rid of it in the first place, then it kept coming back. This saga continued for about 4 months!

Finally, I tried treating them with half recommended dosage of melafix indefinately and changing 100% of their water daily. I did this for 6 weeks and the fins grew back beautifully, haven't had any problems since.