"Bill Stock" wrote

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.

Ok, you should be fine. (8+6+3)x5=17x5=85 and you are close to it. The 1
who died of dropsy *may* be related to overcrowding combined with disease.

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.

How big was the one who died? If it was 8' or 6', that would be overload I
think?

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.

Goldies are wierd. Hardy as hell at somet hings and very delicate with
others. Yes, may have just been the plant. Or rather, someting in the
tropical tank used to treat those fish that the goldies will not take well.


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.


Grin, put the 90G filter on your goldie tank. The are 'dirty fish'. Oh, add
gravel as it helps keep the nasty stuff out of their gills as they swim
about. It's simple to siphon te gravel clean with a mere hose unless you
have itty bitty fish in the same tank.