You have high Nitrite or Ammonia in the tank, from over feeding or some
other reasons. 60% water change don't do it, if it's high. Change the water
completely or few water changes, 3/4, 1/2,1/2, than 1/4 water changes, same
day. Check your water quality at petstore, free, or buy a kit. It's much
better if you learn how.
High Ammonia or Nitrite will kill your fish within a day, also stresses it
out, that's why they get diseases.
Can you picture it, if I lock you in a room, for months, nothing comes out,
only food goes in.
Your waist, breath, CO2 just accumulate in there. Wouldn't you get stressed
out after a while?

Julius

"Fuzzy Orange" wrote in message
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A little history
I have a 36x12x15 fish tank with a fluval 2+ filter and air stone, which
had 3 large goldfish and a fantail in (all 4 years old)

1 of the large goldfish unfortunatly died shortly after moving house - I
found that the power had gone off and the airstone had stopped working
- it died during the night

All was well for a while..

Now I recently purchased 3 more young fantails (grey colour) and added
them to the tank
I seem to be having problems since

One of the goldfish developed 3 white "spots" on its mouth and seemed
less energetic than normal
I assumed this was a mouth fungus so I put some fungus treatment into
the water

Then the 2 large goldfish and fantail started just sitting on the bottom
They have been like this now for a week - they hardly move, just lay on
the bottom and very rarely eat
I just soaked some food in water for a while and dropped it in and
they've completely ignored it

A few days after they stopped moving around one of the new fantails was
found dead - unsure why but its been removed from the tank

The 2 other NEW fantails seemed fine swimming around happily and they
still feed although one does seem to have some red patches on its tails..

Im at a loss as to what to try - I noticed their poo has had a white
stringy bit too it and has been floating around - I cleaned most of it
out but it didnt help

I also removed 60% of the water from the tanks and replaced with fresh
and that still hasnt helped

Ive been treating them with swim bladder treatment fluid every 48 hours
for 3 days and still no change

The large fantail and the 2 large goldfish are all huddled around the
filter on the bottom 24 hours a day now and its really worrying me

Sorry for the long post - Any help would be very much appreciated

- Phil