Re: Question......about goldfish....help please.

["Charter" <charter@charter-terminal.com>]

FWIW, I have a small twin-tail goldfish named Chester, about 2 inches long.  
A few months ago, out of curiosity, I did a few experiments and found that 
Chester's minimum tank size for maintaining stable water quality (assuming 
decent filtration) was 20 gallons.  That's right - 10 gallons per inch of 
goldfish!  This is at 72 degrees with small feedings 2x daily. 

On the other end of the scale, after 12 hours in a 3-gallon desktop with 
active filter, Chester's water maxed out the tests for ammonia, nitrate, and 
nitrite.  Go, Chester, go! 

- Erika 

P.S. I made it to Atlanta!  Will be posting details to my fisherking.org 
website tomorrow. 

Sanford, Dave   LHS-STAFF writes: 

> 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

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