start doing large water changes. add a bit of salt like 1 teaspoon per 5 gallons.
keep your nitrates at or under 20 ppm. if you got gravel it is probably silted up
pretty bad and it is time to move the fish out to bucket with airstone (good for
couple hours), clean the gravel gently in treated water (dont want to kill any
biobugs) and replace.
see removing gravel here http://www.mu.edu/~buxtoni/puregold/care/care.htm
but put gravel back instead.
http://www.mu.edu/~buxtoni/puregold/...htm#TUB_TO_TUB
your problem is water quality, so when you moved the fish out you were putting the
fish into clean water.
Ingrid

(marcos) wrote:

Hi
I have 3 goldfish: a black moor, a red oranda and a bronze pom-pom.
i've got quite a few problems in addition to the Subject.
It starts with the pom-pom fish having reddish scales, sort of like
rashes on your skin. I wasn't really sure what to do and the pom-pom
started to rest on the bottom of the tank. The pom-pom did this quite
often. I could see that the fins were starting to deteriorate a bit so
i got the pom-pom out of the tank. i didn't know what to do so i
placed the fish in one of the buckets i have for changing water. i
didn't want to go into "treating" the fish with all them anti-biotic,
anti-disease, anti-whatever crap as i have done it before and its a
waste of time and MONEY!! I felt ive already solved some of the
problem anyway by taking out the pom-pom therefore not letting the
infection or whatever it is, spread to the moor and oranda.So the
pom-pom was in the bucket for a few days. AFter that, the pom-pom's
scales seem to have gone back to normal and was functioning well so i
put it back again. All was well for a couple of weeks UNTIL...again,
the pom-pom's scales went red again and started to rest on the
bottom(again)! so i took it out again,did the same thing as b4. then
when it was fine again, i put it back. But,...there was another
problem after i put the pom-pom back into the tank the 2ND TIME.
After the 2nd time, the Oranda started to rest on the
bottom!!Arrgggghh!What is going on?!! i don't understand! the oranda
sits on the bottom for nearly most of the time, esp. behind a specific
plant, always the same spot. But it hasn't got the reddening of the
scales though. it's fins are fine,scales fine. But it keeps sitting on
the bottom!!only to come out when its feeding time! PLEASE,SOMEONE
HELP!! I NEED U XPERTS OUT THERE N FIX THIS PROBLEM. THANKS.



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