"Cshenk" wrote in message
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"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 bette



No tank is 75 gallons, but probably still too small.

Cycle is fine, last time I lost the cycle was about two years ago when I
tread with P.P.. I lost only ONE fish to dropsy recently. His similar sized
cousin is the only one not currently sick. Kanamycin is helping and their
medicated food came today.

Fish got sick when I added the plant, so I assumed it was not a coincidence.
The fish in the office tank (home office) are doing fine, but they are all
tropicals.

I've got a 90 gallon and LARGE (50 gallon) external filter waiting to
happen, but I've been too busy to get it done.