Goldfish and temperature
Mark B
active, apparently happy, and with a body length of 3-4 inches each.
Then yesterday I came home and found the apartment cooler than normal (about
15c) and the oranda on the gravel, listing to one side. I checked the tank
temperature, and found it was a bit below 20c, because the heater hadn't
been set very high. Having had one fantail die before from chronically
being too cold, I figured the problem was just that it was too cold. I
turned up the heater, and over the course of the night the tank made it up a
couple degrees to around 23c. By this point the oranda was still sitting on
the gravel most of the time, but it wasn't listing over, and did swim out of
the way whenever the shubunkin passed by, so I figured everything was fine.
When I got home after work, that tank was at 25c and the oranda was dead.
Through all this, the shubunkin has shown no signs of stress.
This seems a little peculiar to me. This was my first Oranda, are they
normally that sensitive to temperature changes? Or was something else
probably wrong?
Brian Corll
orandas I purchased from a dealer I trust and who knows his stuff. Orandas
purchased from the mass-market pet stores are often sick and don't last
long, in my experience.
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Brian Corll
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Kathleen Coyne
<b...@bcsql.com> writes:
>Personally, the only orandas I've had luck with have been the chocolate
>orandas I purchased from a dealer I trust and who knows his stuff. Orandas
>purchased from the mass-market pet stores are often sick and don't last
>long, in my experience.
Hm interesting. My chocolate (or is it blue? I get differing opinions) is
healthy hardy and happy.
The red cap on the other hand is quite sensitive. I don't know what's wrong.
The water quality is 0.0 (tested today), it's in a 20g by itself, and being fed
anti-biotics and it's still sluggish, little rection to stimuli, and those red
marks just won't go away on it's tail. I'm begining to think it's stress
considering the water quality is good, and there seems to be no reaction to the
anit-biotics. Salt content was raised to a teaspoon per gallon yesturday with
no improvement today. Well... I guess she has been swiming around more often
today.
Maybe I'll cover her for a day or two..? I dunno. How do you reduce stress?
-Kathleen Coyne
"you've got to know when it's time to turn the page"
Mark B
active up until the other day. It is (or was I guess) a Red Cap (although
over the time I owned it, it developed a lot of light orange patches, bad
breeding I guess, but I suppose that's why it was fairly cheap), which
someone else suchest might be a little touchy.
I'm quite fond of the Red Caps, so I'll have to look into it a little more
before buying a replacement.
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it isnt seen until advanced stage) and they easily get dropsy. fancy GF
have to be watched like hawks and treated at the first sign of any symptoms
at all or they do end up floating fins up in short order. Ingrid
"Mark B" <n...@here.com> wrote:
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