I think the answer lies in the "6 mo and a few water changes" Gold fish need several gallons per fish and frequent(weekly) water changes to be healthy. I don't know if this one is doomed or not but larger quarters and lots of H2O changes can't hurt. dave ------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, e-mail majordomo@thekrib.com with "unsubscribe gsas-board" in the body of the message. Old messages are available at http://lists.thekrib.com/gsas-board When asked, log in as username is "gsas-board", and password "gsas-bored".