Fish Lovers 3.0 [new poll]

[Blood Storm]

anyone else have jawfish?( salt water that is)
I have a blue spotted jawfish x.x his nick name is paranoia - lol. ( not in a mean way )
then I have a fire angel, a potters angel,a fairy wrasse,and a few other ( both are in 2 "large" tanks^^ C: )

I want to set up another saltwater tank and plan to do it down the road. We had a 30 gallon FOWLR(I tbink thats what its called) tank with two clownfish, two scooter blennies, a sifting goby, and a blackfin blenny. We lost the tank to a sudden red slime algae bloom.

cute^^ I looked up what a scooter blenny is ( I haven't had a blenny in a long time, x.x I had one of those yellow and purple ones-)

this is a picture of my tank^^ well me and my moms- we share the tank XD
awww...my mom says you can get rid of red slime off with underwater fans/circulation fans- our kitchen one sometimes gets red slime, but it goes away w/h the fans.

we tried everything but after we killed it all off, it came back within a week.

I am wanting to set up a 10 gallon nano tank with either an anemone and a pair of clownfish, some corals and a small fish of some sort, or a few pieces of eelgrass and a couple dwarf seahores(a ten gallon tank is the maximum tank size for them, they are so small that in a bigger tank they would not find enough food, no matter how much you put in there for them).

[Roadhog]

hm. thats weird-

but cool! Me and my mom were gonna try seahorses but we ended up not having seahorses x.x
But cool^^ C:

[HorseLover!]

Two part question

1. Scales

So my comet gold fish use to be pretty much all orange, now we just passed a year together and he's starting to get white on him- is this normal? I will post a pic once I get onto my computer.

2. Tank
So- Ollie the goldie is in a small tank- 10 gallons and I don't like it. But my friend has a rather large tank and she doesn't like it- so I was thinking about taking hers from her, I know a comet needs 55 gallons- but how many does a comet + a common need? Her fish is only small compared to Ollie though, he's like 60% smaller them him.

[deletedaccplsignore]

Two part question

1. Scales

So my comet gold fish use to be pretty much all orange, now we just passed a year together and he's starting to get white on him- is this normal? I will post a pic once I get onto my computer.

2. Tank
So- Ollie the goldie is in a small tank- 10 gallons and I don't like it. But my friend has a rather large tank and she doesn't like it- so I was thinking about taking hers from her, I know a comet needs 55 gallons- but how many does a comet + a common need? Her fish is only small compared to Ollie though, he's like 60% smaller them him.

I believe that goldfish change color depending on the amount of light (or at least it's what I've heard ). Usually in darker tanks they develop darker black spots. I don't know about white though...

[HorseLover!]

I edited a picture in it's just above his fin behind his gill.

[Blood Storm]

I edited a picture in it's just above his fin behind his gill.

with age goldfish change color. almost all goldfish babies start out golden with black edged fins, then the edging fades, leaving a solid colored fish, then they develop white or black markings.


black goldfish start out life black with a bronze spot on their flanks, and white goldfish are always white. they too use this style of coloration.

[Kalrine]

Two part question

1. Scales

So my comet gold fish use to be pretty much all orange, now we just passed a year together and he's starting to get white on him- is this normal? I will post a pic once I get onto my computer.

2. Tank
So- Ollie the goldie is in a small tank- 10 gallons and I don't like it. But my friend has a rather large tank and she doesn't like it- so I was thinking about taking hers from her, I know a comet needs 55 gallons- but how many does a comet + a common need? Her fish is only small compared to Ollie though, he's like 60% smaller them him.

1. Scales
There is a pretty simple answer to this. The darker the area you keep your goldfish in, the more white his/her scales become. I once had a little goldfish named Orange. His named described him exactly; we named him Orange because he was the deepest, most vivid, strongest shade of orange we had ever seen in a goldfish. He lived 8 years (went through 3 tank changes) before he died trying to eat my little cory catfish, who got stuck in Orange's mouth and cut Orange up really bad on the inside before escaping. Orange really liked to eat smaller fish, and we made the mistake of forgetting that and putting in a prickly little catfish. Anyway... He would have lived longer, but by the time he died, he was almost pure white because we kept is tank mostly out of the light.

2. Tank
First off, as you already know, Ollie will definitely have to move into a bigger tank as he grows. Our goldfish Orange was in a 40gal tank (still growing) when he died, to give you an idea. All single-tail goldfish (referring to the difference from fancy-tail) can get up to a foot long.
Here is the difference:
Comet
Common
Only the tail fin length is different.
Because just one adult goldfish would need a 55gal, 2 would probably need around a 90 or 100gal, 85 minimum, maybe. Keep in mind that some goldfish fight (Orange would pick on the females we used to have with him, he even killed one of the 2), so it may not work out.

[HorseLover!]

I'm so glad he's not poorly then, i just thought it was strange that he's over a year old and now he's changing aha, I just get worried about my babies. Thanks for you help!

Her tank is at least triple mine so I'm hoping that I can keep them both and give them. Better life, I don't want to keep Ollie in his tank at the moment, what happened was there was a carnival and I went to make sure the goldfish where being treat as they should as as I was walking I saw this orange thing in the grass, someone had poured Ollie out of his bag and left him to die on the grass, so I picked him up and rescued him- sure I could of give him back to the vendor and be sold on but I would rather him be in my double figures tank rather then a little 1 maybe 2 gallon Kritter keeper they where selling.

[Starfalling]

I still couldn't get a picture because I had to ake my dog for a walk. Anyways it is fuzzy and kind of resembles mold.

Also he is acting fine otherwise.

[Dia.]

I still couldn't get a picture because I had to ake my dog for a walk. Anyways it is fuzzy and kind of resembles mold.

Also he is acting fine otherwise.

I suggest doing a search on the internet to see if you can find what it is.
White, fuzzy, moldy looking could be anything from bacterial to fungal to parasitic. It could also and effect of stunted growth from being in a tank that is too small or anything else.
So please get a picture so we can at least kind of see it, find a picture online that closely resembles it in it's location and appearance, or do your own research.