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| Author: | kij2 [ May 3rd, '14, 00:32 ] |
| Post subject: | Goldfish feces looks strange |
Hi all, I have 30 goldfish in my fish tank that has been running for close to two months now, but my fish are suffering a lot, some have ich, some have fin rot, and I have noticed that their feces floats and is much thicker than I would imagine they should be. The feces is brown and now sticks to the edges of the barrel at the water level. They look almost like worms, honestly quite disgusting. I have no idea if this is normal feces. I have salted the system for two weeks and the plants suffered greatly. I over salted to about 9 ppt. Today I made an 80 water change to the system. But I am mainly concerned about the feces, does this sound normal? Thanks in advance to anyone who has any advice. Sincerely, Karim |
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| Author: | Ronmaggi [ May 3rd, '14, 00:37 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Goldfish feces looks strange |
What kind and how much of bio filtration are you using? Pictures? |
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| Author: | kij2 [ May 3rd, '14, 00:40 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Goldfish feces looks strange |
Ronmaggi wrote: What kind and how much of bio filtration are you using? Pictures? No bio filtration at all. Unless you count the media beds. I have three media beds made up of old bathtubs. I am using a sort of porous volcanic rock as the media, and I have about twenty small plants in there that aren't really growing. |
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| Author: | Ronmaggi [ May 3rd, '14, 00:45 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Goldfish feces looks strange |
That is bio filtration. How is the water exiting your fish tank? Do you have enough flow to wash out the feces? Do you have any pictures? |
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| Author: | kij2 [ May 3rd, '14, 00:52 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Goldfish feces looks strange |
Ronmaggi wrote: That is bio filtration. How is the water exiting your fish tank? Do you have enough flow to wash out the feces? Do you have any pictures? I am turning over the water around twice an hour, and the water leaves the tank through a pipe that has holes all over it almost the entire height of the fish tank. Also I have an overflow so there is a reasonable amount of water going back into the sump tank. No pictures on this computer, but I will try to upload some as soon as I get a chance. |
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| Author: | kij2 [ May 25th, '14, 15:44 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Goldfish feces looks strange |
My fish look a lot healthier these days, but I am still getting this strange looking feces. I now have to clean this slimey brown rim of feces from the fish tank at the water level. Anyone else have such stains in their fish tank? |
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| Author: | Ronmaggi [ May 26th, '14, 09:34 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Goldfish feces looks strange |
That is not from feces, it is bioslime and a normal healthy part of an AP ststem. |
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