"Tynk" wrote
On Nov 8, 11:22?am, "Cshenk" wrote:

I've heard the suggestion of 10g per inch of goldfish for perfect health
and
based on anticipated growth, that would mean a 200g tank (rediculous, I
agree). I hope though you have something like a 70g going there?

I think it's possible you heard the common goldie *rule* of 10g *per*
goldie, not per inch of goldie.

Possibly. 10g though for larger one sounds pretty wrong too. I've gone
with pretty much 5g per inch of goldies. That has worked for me. I've had
enough 'overage' with that to have a few other things compatible with them
in there.

However, that rule isn't actually right as differrent types of Goldies
grow to differrent sizes. A 16" comet or common is going to need a
larger tank than an 8" fancy, so the 10g per goldie rule isn't right
anyway.

Yup.

I too asked what size tank this was we are talking about, but it was
skipped over. = /

Probably accidental there. That or he has a really small tank and possibly
suspects someplace that this is related. Fellow is doing 50% water changes
so there might be cycling problems (possibly caused by the various
medications as he infers someplace).

While goldies are extremely hardy to many things, being ovecrowded isnt
really one of them. The dropsy sounds like a symptom of an overloaded tank
to me but cant tell for sure.

Bill, if your tank is 40g or smaller, I think thats the real root cause of
the problem. I know tans are expensive but if you could get a second 40G or
so and put the bigger one by itself, it will be better.