"soup" wrote in message
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Koi-lo wrote:
But why would she care what size tank you purchased for you son? I
guess you lost me here.


I didn't buy the tank it was given to him as a christmas (2004) present,
this one :-
http://www.hagen.com/canada/english/...13061001100 1

or if that mucks up in the wrapping

http://tinyurl.com/as3zw

I don't see that as being connected. How long do you have these fish?

Fish we have had for about a year. .

Have you been doing partial water changes?

Have been changing 40% of the water every one to two weeks (usually more
towards the two weeks) always with water that has been treated

Have you checked the water for ammonia and nitrites? What is the PH?

Don't know the levels but have done nothing different lately and the
fish are usually fine

Could your son have been overfeeding them?
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Doubt it (unless he sneaks them food in the middle of the night) , he
doesn't do anything to them at all, after the "flush" of the first
couple of weeks, he basically has nothing to do with them at all

No, but that may NOT be the problem here. How long has this tank
been set up?

About a year.

Have you used
dechlorinators when you do the partial water changes to deactivate
chlorine and chloramines?

Yup and water is left in a bucket for roughly a day to allow it to come
to room temperature and to give the "safe guard" (a dechlorinator) time
to work.
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Going over the whole thread I doubt it's a parasitic problem since you had
the fish for a year. I will say that sometimes with the best of care they
still sicken and die. Like people and all other life forms, not all will
live. I recently had a golden moor goldfish that was thriving and growing
suddenly isolate itself, and quickly die. It had no obvious signs of
parasites or injury, no gravel stuck in it's throat, ... no reason I could
find. It just went.....

I'm sorry but still don't understand why your mate would object to replacing
this small tank with a larger one knowing they will surly die if you don't.
If you plan to keep these fish you will need at the minimum a 20Long tank.
If a larger tank is out of the question for whatever reason, then I would
start looking for a home for them......
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