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Milestone

Tank repurpose

Key moment

Sushi has passed.


I'm going to try and make this tank a blackwater tank with some tetras for now.

Update

Fins getting worse while eye better

Start to have some tears in the fins? Perhaps because her immune system is shot she's getting hit by opportunistic bacteria. I am really trying

Update

The pop eye got much worse before better

The pop eye on the right eye started to perforate Tuesday night (9-9-26). Did a huge water change, changed to kanaplex and have been mixing it with food too. She seems better today (9-11-26). Still sitting at the bottom but she is still eating. Swims…
Problem

Pop eye

Sushi has Popeye and some ammonia burns from the move. Trying a new antibiotic because the first one doesn't seem to be working well enough.

Milestone

Moved the tank to my new house

Key moment

I moved the tank to my new house, cleaned out the rocks, decorations, and prefilter, changed out most of the water and safely transported all the fish.

Solution

Eye and fins

I treated the tank with antibiotics and a bacterial bloom is here. Gonna try and water change my way out of this one with some slime coat medicine too. Water parameters all seem to be ok so I'm not sure what's going on here. The eye is already cleari…
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Problem

New eye and fin problem

Woke up yesterday and the goldfish's eye was fogged over?! One only so the thought is damage from decorations. I put food in the decorations for the plecos and she must have gotten hurt trying to get to it.

Observation

Egg laying behavior note for Finn

The goldfish will lay eggs whenever the tank gets any warmer than 72 degrees farenheit because she thinks it's summer. This trashes the water quality and spikes the ammonia. I keep the tank cooler to prevent this, as the risk of the ammonia spike is…
Milestone

Keeper History

Key moment
Sushi is my first fish, I got her in January 2022, and I did the feeder goldfish in a small tank thing a lot of beginners do. I realized how wrong this was and got a bigger tank, starting with a 10 gallon. As she grew, I never gave up on her througho…
Observation

Temperature note for Finn

My house stays at a consistent temperature that keeps the tank at 68 degrees farenheit. No heater needed when the ambient temperature regulates the tank!

Solution

Fin tear all healed up!

Aquarium salt and time did the trick!

Problem

Fin tear?

New as of this week. Gonna put in some aquarium salt to help with the process.