Thank you.
Best regards,
Cynthia.


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...
clean fresh water is EVERYTHING to any fish. GF are dirty fish and need
MORE water
than other fish. a hospital or quarantine tanks should be 40 gallon
rubbermaid tub
rather than a 1 gallon tank. when a fish is sick it is MOSTLY fresh water
that helps
the fish recover. in fact, the tub to tub method is excellent for this.
http://weloveteaching.com/puregold/d...htm#TUB_TO_TUB

aerating water with chlorine MAY do the trick, but if you have chloramine,
it wont.
use dechlor.

be sure to match the temperature of the new water to the old water..
sudden colder
water can make the fish sick.. often with ich. so if the temperature is
the same,
just move the fish over. read the section on uses of salt.
http://weloveteaching.com/puregold/d...rtmnt.htm#salt

most people overfeed GF. they dont eat a lot per day. you need the
highest quality
food you can find, the kind with little to no "grains".. no corn, no
wheat. Ingrid

"cindys" wrote:
I agree. And on that note...After reading the goldfish book, my husband
and
I have concluded that we need to set up a hospital tank.
We brought out the old 1-gallon aquarium (where the
little fish lived happily for the past year). All that year, my husband
had
been using tap water. Now, I see from my reading that we weren't
supposed
to be doing that but that if we let the tap water sit for 24 hours, the
chlorine will dissipate into the air. Is that correct? Or should I go to
the
store and buy tablets to eliminate the chlorine? Or should I buy a Brita
water filter? Or should I use bottled water? I'm just thinking to myself
that the bottled water may have a different mineral balance... After the
water in the 1-gallon tank has been sitting for 24 hours, I will want to
transfer the fish back to the old tank. But I know better than to just
dump
him in. How shall I do this? Shall I remove some of the (disgusting)
water
from the new aquarium to go with him? Shall I put him in a plastic bag
filled with water and let him reacclimate to the temperature in the old
tank? (Both tanks are now at the same temperature actually - room
temperature). Shall I put gravel on the bottom of the 1-gallon tank?
Shall I
put salt? (I know I'm not supposed to feed the fish for 4 days).

Please tell me how to do this. The fish is sitting in the corner of the
tank, more miserable than ever, but he is still alive.
Thank you again (everyone) for all your help.
Best regards,
---Cindy S.






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