http://puregold.aquaria.net/pg/care/care.htm
look at the reasons for not having gravel and how to remove it.
add 1 teaspoon salt per 5 gallons, no additives, dissolve first, add slowly. it has
nothing to do with "hardness" or alkalinity
just keep doing 50% water changes every day for a week.
http://puregold.aquaria.net/pg/care/...htm#essentials
GF need 10 gallons EACH. get nitrate test and keep the nitrates at or below 20 ppm.

water temp that goes up and down is bad for GF and they get ich. get a heater, get
good aeration. get a bigger tank. dont mix GF and other fish.
Ingrid

(Jed Savage) wrote:
So I took my fish out (all goldfish varieties now) and did a complete
water change, washed the gravel, and cleaned the filter box real good.
Put new water back in, adjusted the PH, added some chlorine remover
and ammonia remover (picked both up today, wasn't using before) and
added the fish back. They seem to be moving around more now, and the
redness on the larger fish has subsided some. I'm still scared I
might lose more fish though and want to know if there's anything else
I can do. I did add about 1/4 tsp of salt to the filter box, but I'm
not sure if I should add more as the water around here is already
pretty hard. Any suggestions? It's a 10 gallon tank. I did add some
tetra's about 2 weeks ago but they all died (I found out later that
they like warmer water, but the lady at the store said they'd be
fine). It was right after they died that the water started getting
cloudy. I remove 4 of the 5 but couldn't find the 5th. Figured maybe
the larger GF ate him. Any suggestions? Should I just wait it out
now? I don't want to put them through anymore stress than I have with
the water change. I tried to get the temerature close, but I don't
have a thermometer and I think the water's a little colder now than it
used to be. Thank you to anyone who can give me some advice here.



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