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

[Kathy Olson <kathy@thekrib.com>]

Awesome to hear from you!!!!

WOW on the goldfish.

Kathy



On Wed, 22 May 2002, Charter wrote:

> 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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