HELP! after weeks of hardship, fish growing black on fins, burst bubble eye bubble?

Yup. Black edges to the fins is the sign of too much ammonia in the tank
water. Immediate remedy is do a large water change to get rid of the
ammonia.... 'til you cycle your filter properly.

"mort" wrote in message
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Yup. Black edges to the fins is the sign of too much ammonia in the tank
water. Immediate remedy is do a large water change to get rid of the
ammonia.... 'til you cycle your filter properly.

I think that the OP might want to actually *check* the ammonia levels. My
NewFish has some black on his fins, and my ammonia is at 0. I think it's
just his coloring.

A

i did check them, with three different test kits three different times.

ammonia was good actually. i took it to an aquarium store to have them
check it since i dont want to risk fouling it up myself.

were the levels 0ppm?
"Steven C" wrote in message
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i did check them, with three different test kits three different times.

ammonia was good actually. i took it to an aquarium store to have them
check it since i dont want to risk fouling it up myself.

"Angrie.Woman" wrote in message
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"mort" wrote in message
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Yup. Black edges to the fins is the sign of too much ammonia in the tank
water. Immediate remedy is do a large water change to get rid of the
ammonia.... 'til you cycle your filter properly.

I think that the OP might want to actually *check* the ammonia levels. My
NewFish has some black on his fins, and my ammonia is at 0. I think it's
just his coloring.

My wife picked our 2nd orange fantail from the LFS tank because of the unique black lining on the edge of its tail.
At least, we thought it was unique.....
3 weeks in our tank and the black color is slowly disappearing (tail becoming fully orange).

Am I to understand that the LFS sold me an orange fantail that had suffered ammonia damage, and is recovering in my tank?

He/she is probably just developing mature coloring. Many goldfish will be
widely varied in their coloring as juveniles, but as they grow up they will
become completely orange. I bought 4 feeders of all different colors and
patterns. Every one of them is solid orange now.



"Gfishery" wrote in message
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"Angrie.Woman" wrote in message
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"mort" wrote in message
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Yup. Black edges to the fins is the sign of too much ammonia in the
tank
water. Immediate remedy is do a large water change to get rid of the
ammonia.... 'til you cycle your filter properly.

I think that the OP might want to actually *check* the ammonia levels. My
NewFish has some black on his fins, and my ammonia is at 0. I think it's
just his coloring.

My wife picked our 2nd orange fantail from the LFS tank because of the
unique black lining on the edge of its tail.
At least, we thought it was unique.....
3 weeks in our tank and the black color is slowly disappearing (tail
becoming fully orange).

Am I to understand that the LFS sold me an orange fantail that had
suffered ammonia damage, and is recovering in my tank?

"Ed VanDyke" wrote in message ...
He/she is probably just developing mature coloring. Many goldfish will be
widely varied in their coloring as juveniles, but as they grow up they will
become completely orange. I bought 4 feeders of all different colors and
patterns. Every one of them is solid orange now.

Would a 2mm-wide black lining along the entire edge of my orange fantail's caudal fin and a 1mm-wide black lining along it's dorsal
fin be able to disappear in just 3 weeks as a result of maturing?
I though these color changes take quite a bit of time to develop.

My 2nd fantail (Clinton) is completely orange now and looks just like my first fantail (Carter).

"Gfishery" wrote in message
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"Ed VanDyke" wrote in message
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He/she is probably just developing mature coloring. Many goldfish will
be
widely varied in their coloring as juveniles, but as they grow up they
will
become completely orange. I bought 4 feeders of all different colors
and
patterns. Every one of them is solid orange now.

I did the same 'mistake' once and bought a couple of very cute and black
orange gold fish once and thought that they would stay that color. They
dont, they just look funny until they get their 'normal' orange color, but
when I started with the goldfish's I didn't know that...


Would a 2mm-wide black lining along the entire edge of my orange fantail's
caudal fin and a 1mm-wide black lining along it's dorsal
fin be able to disappear in just 3 weeks as a result of maturing?
I though these color changes take quite a bit of time to develop.

That sounds like the fish has recovered from amonia burn in th past, you
sometimes see that if the edges of the fins has become damaged by finrot or
amonia burns, when the tissue grows back it starts out black and then turns
orange over a couple of weeks...


My 2nd fantail (Clinton) is completely orange now and looks just like my
first fantail (Carter).

You named them :-)


/Morten

"Morten" wrote in message ...
I did the same 'mistake' once and bought a couple of very cute and black
orange gold fish once and thought that they would stay that color. They
dont, they just look funny until they get their 'normal' orange color, but
when I started with the goldfish's I didn't know that...

I think Calico Fantails retain their mixed colorings into adulthood.

Would a 2mm-wide black lining along the entire edge of my orange fantail's
caudal fin and a 1mm-wide black lining along it's dorsal
fin be able to disappear in just 3 weeks as a result of maturing?
I though these color changes take quite a bit of time to develop.

That sounds like the fish has recovered from amonia burn in th past, you
sometimes see that if the edges of the fins has become damaged by finrot or
amonia burns, when the tissue grows back it starts out black and then turns
orange over a couple of weeks...

Wish I had known that a month ago. But things look good in my tank now.

My 2nd fantail (Clinton) is completely orange now and looks just like my
first fantail (Carter).

You named them :-)

Yeah, and my Red Cap Oranda is named Reagan
The Republican is not giving the Democrats a fair chance at the food at feeding time
But the Democrats have been known to gang up on the Republican.