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About Chris Robbins
Expertise
I have 25+ years of personal experience as a pet
store employee and manager in the family pet store
business. The main part of our business was
Freshwater Fish. I can answer questions on; Fish care, diseases,
parasites and fish identification, feeding your
fish, breeding and sexing your fish, setting up
your aquarium, cleaning your aquarium, and
"what`s this weird stuff in my tank/on my
fish" questions. I am not an African Cichlid expert, Plant expert or Brackish Expert. No Pond or Saltwater Questions Please.
Experience
I worked in and managed my family's fish and pet and fish store for 26 years and maintained the 35 aquariums. My experience also has included occasional in-home consultation and aquarium maintenance for my clients.
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You are here: Experts > Animals/Pets > Pet Fish > Fish > new goldfish sick
Expert: Chris Robbins
Date: 4/26/2008
Subject: new goldfish sick
Question
I bought a new goldfish 3 days ago. He is a very small shubunkin. He seemed OK until this morning when I noticed him lolling around near the bottom. His backbone area between the fin and head is sunken in. I've changed the water, with proper water chemicals, so I think the water quality is OK. My other 4 fish, also shubunkins, are darting around and doing fine. I feed them a small portion of floating pellets twice a day. I have a 25 gal. tank. Thanks for your help.
Answer
Hi Kathy;
I'm not sure what could be the problem except maybe he's just trying to get used to his new home. Make sure he isn't being intimidated or bullied by the other fish. Maybe provide extra hiding places for him. If you could upload a picture of him to a free image hosting site such as photobucket.com and send me the link I could take a look at it.
You might want to know that your tank will be overstocked as your fish grow. Shibunkins are Goldfish so they grow to be very large and are just naturally messy guys. Just one needs at least ten gallons of water. Here is a good web page about goldfish and how to provide what they need;
http://www.firsttankguide.net/goldfish.php
At Your Service;
Chris Robbins
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