Comets and Tetras... A Taboo Tale

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No, no. You don't want to add any more fish to that. You have more than enough. You're already battling waste, adding more fish just means more waste.
 
The API Master Test kit has most of the important dropper bottles in it. You can normally find it online for ~25 dollars, but with shipping, and how important it is (since you have the fish NOW and need the test results NOW) I would buy it from the LFS or PetsMart, as soon as possible.

Ammonia and NitrIte are the first two steps in the nitrifying process, and can do harm to your fish if there are ANY levels, so please get these two tests as well. pH and high pH tester kits are also useful (and included in the API test kit I mentioned before) if you do have ammonia, so we know just how toxic it is. I'll explain that when we get the results so I don't make your head explode with new information all at once! lol
 
Oh, and you're welcome. I love when new people come to learn about keeping goldfish, they are my weakness!
There is a lot of information on this website, that's dedicated to only goldfish. www.thegab.org
Have fun! There's a lot of articles and information on the side bar that will be very beneficial for you to read. Keeping goldfish is much more difficult than tropicals or even cichlids :)
 
That's true, Laticauda. Goldfish are a rather demanding species and it's always saddening to see them at the fair and in the hands of children with a CritterKeeper cage tucked under their arm. If people knew they were a terrible beginner's fish I know they'd choose another 'cheap' species like a convict or green sunfish. But because everyone sees them in media and on packaging it's just assumed that they are "the" fish, which makes no sense because almost every conversation I have with people who have had pet goldfish ends with "He lived a few years" instead of "He's older than my kids". They get no respect.
 
knifegill;4791351; said:
That's true, Laticauda. Goldfish are a rather demanding species and it's always saddening to see them at the fair and in the hands of children with a CritterKeeper cage tucked under their arm. If people knew they were a terrible beginner's fish I know they'd choose another 'cheap' species like a convict or green sunfish. But because everyone sees them in media and on packaging it's just assumed that they are "the" fish, which makes no sense because almost every conversation I have with people who have had pet goldfish ends with "He lived a few years" instead of "He's older than my kids". They get no respect.
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When I go to PetSmart, I joke that I'm going to bring a roll of duct tape and cover up all the 1/2g, 3g, 5g, and ten gallon "packages" perfect for goldfish!

There are goldfish out there that were won at fairs, and now the kid who won them is graduating college, so it IS possible for them to be quite long lived, if cared for correctly!
 
I have several eight long comet Goldfish in a 75 gallon tank and already I wish I had a much bigger tank. You might want to start consdering buying a 75 gallon fish tank to give the fish more room.
 
Well, I took your advice and got a testing kit for the aquarium water. I did a 20% water change which seemed to help a bit. Ive also cut down on feeding a bit and these are the results from the water testing:

Ammonia: 1.0 ppm
Nitrate: 0 ppm
Nitrite: 0.25 ppm
pH: 7.6

I tried researching the numbers to see if this was good or bad. From what I can tell, these are pretty decent numbers for a newly established tank. So now I'm wondering still where the cloudiness is coming from. It's not TOO cloudy, but I'm a slight perfectionist and would prefer to have that crystal clear look :) Might be hard with a comet though. Any more suggestions? Thanks everyone for your help!!
 
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