Hi, my name is Rose and my husband and I have a 30 gallon tall tank with 2 placostemus' and as of right now we have 1 fantail and a regular white and gold goldfish. Anyways 2 have died from internal bleeding. How do I know this? Well the one after he died I left him lay out on a paper towel and after a while he just started bleeding from underneath his skin. Before he died he started staying at the top of the water above the bubble curtain in the back sucking up all the bubbles he could. Anyways the last 2 fish that died did the same things now this white and gold goldfish is doing it too. What is causing this??? We bought some test strips and the people told us to stop feeding them for a few days so we did and the ph levels and all that went to normal well now they are back to sky high again and we just dont know what to do.
dead goldfish and another one getting ready to die from internal bleeding
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Dangerdoll
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Sounds to me like ammonia poisoning. How often do you change the water/clean the gravel? How big are the pleco's?
You might want to increase your water flow to get more oxygen in your tank if the fish are continuously going to the surface for air, you can do this with heavier filtration or simply just purchase a powerhead....also as mentioned before, it sounds like an ammonia level problem.
Dangerdoll said:
Well we keep it cleaned out like we are supposed to and we add aquarium salt. Ummm is there any chemical we can put in there to reduce this problem?
Well we keep it cleaned out like we are supposed to and we add aquarium salt. Ummm is there any chemical we can put in there to reduce this problem?
Dangerdoll
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The problem with common pleco's and goldies is that they produce huge bio-loads so their water change regimen needs to be frequent in order to keep the levels at zero (optimum).... if you change the water more often, you will get the ammonia (etc.) levels stabilized and better for the fish. Goldies also need more oxygen than a lot of other fish so adding some kind of bubble want as suggested would be a good idea too. I don't use any of the chems they sell at the stores, chemicals only mask the problem, they don't fix them. Good luck, hope this helps...
mvigor said:
I'm asking because if the tank hasn't been set up all that long this may be the ammonia spike of the initial cycle. If it HAS been set up a long time then perhaps it's Chlor poisoning and not Ammonia poisoning.
Can you let me know please?
The tank has been up for a year and it just happened within the last 2 months and before that we had no problems.