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  1. opening the mouth could be begging for food or limited oxygen or stress. whats your set up like? how many fish do you have? are they all opening their mouths rapidly and consistently? Maybe you should message me directly so we don't over take this post 🙂
  2. The crushed coral arrived today. I'm going to test it on a 20 gallon i am also trying to cycle. I've added 1/2 cup to 20 gallons. initially ph is 6.0. ammonia is .25
  3. Hi @Hally M., Ive never encountered gill flukes before. which part of her post is similar? If its the flashing, then a parasite like flukes could be the cause. are all your fish flashing? or is it the constantly opening of the mouth thats the problem?
  4. I think introducing one ranchu at a time would be a good idea and 20% water changes if the ammonia gets above 0.25 ppm. I just dont like the idea of any ammonia in the water because i dont want the ammonia to burn my fish.
  5. the ranchu goldfish are the fish meant for the 40 gallon. I initially had them in a 20 gallon that was cycled but i wanted to upgrade the space for them. Is carbonic salt aquarium salt? I worry about adding aquarium salt because i did that once and it crashed my cycle in one of my 20 gallons.
  6. Yeah i have 3 books on the subject. One is old and kinda like a crash course on Mendelian genetics! I think ive watched every possible video on youtube about goldfish breeding. I wish there was more! I did read a blog about a guy who was trying to breed milk cow ranchu and those are very similar to the type im trying to breed and he said they can breed true sometimes. I haven't found anything on breeding a dwarf variant.
  7. hi swissaquarist, I have 2 ranchu, they aren't the type I want to breed, they are also both female. I actually got them from a local fish store. they have grown since then, its been a year. they bred for me with a black ranchu i had last spring. lost the black ranchu to illness, fugal infection. Its a long term project. maybe spring 2024 ill be able to start on it hopefully.
  8. hi everyone and thank you for the info, I have a lot of filtration. 3 hang on back and 3 sponge and a under gravel filter fit for 20 gallons. gh is 75 kh is 0 I have a 4 inch substrate of gravel from home depot. I can do a fish in cycle since i currently am changing 20 gallons a day. I had three 20 gallons that were cycled, but i added dirt substrate and it messed with the filters, so i broke down those three 20 gallons, thinking my 40 would cycle in a month. plus i wanted to upgrade to the 40 gallon. right now i have no cycled tanks and im changing 100% of the water in one 20 gallon every day for the 2 ranchu. edit: I also have hornwort, anacharis, and el nino fern in the 40 gallon. edit: I read the article. I didnt mention my water is a little cloudy. it was very cloudy and yellow but i added accu-clear api and a carbon bag to a filter. that cleared it up a bit more. Also I have been feeding a low quality food, but i have hikari pellets arriving today. thank you for linking the article, Schuyler
  9. Also, if you lower temperature, the metabolism of the fish will slow, so feed less and expect slower movement. Be careful when changing temp, do it slowly so as to not shock your fish. good luck!
  10. hi, I have done some research on breeding fancy goldfish. From what I've learned, scale type impacts the type of colors you can get. there seems to be 3 types of scale types. Metallic, matte, and nacreous. nacreous is a combo of metallic and matte. matte fish are usually all white, sometimes with a little blue. but true mattes are all white. metallic are shiny and come in lots of colors. nacreous are often called calico. or sakura if they are white and orange. hope this is helpful!
  11. Hi, just wanted to talk about a future breeding project. I want to breed ranchus and specifically breed water ink ranchus. They are white ranchus with blue backs and a few black spots. They are nacreous scale type. Some call them blue base calicos, but the type i want to breed is more specific. I also want to try my hand at breeding dwarf ranchus. I suspect that breeding the smallest fry together will result in smaller adult fish over time.
  12. I'm a ranchu keeper myself. no oranda tho. your fish are so cute! I was wondering about your nitrates? my nitrates go high really fast, even with plants in the tank. are you doing anything to keep the nitrates low?
  13. Hi, I have fancy goldfish. I'm no expert but I've been keeping them for a year now. It seems you are very in tune with your fish, which is good. One thing that i'd check is the temperature. i believe higher temp means lower oxygen in the water. that might be why they are opening their mouths so much. I keep my goldfish at around 65 to 68 degrees Fahrenheit.
  14. thank you for replying! I am using Api fresh water master test kit. I thought the zero nitrites was odd as well. Ive tested for nitrites two times and it was zero both times. I hope its the ph thats causing the problem. my ph might be lower than 6 as my test kit doesn't go lower than 6.0 I did check my tap water this morning and found the ph to be higher, but it was still 6 something, not 7.
  15. Hi all, this is my first time posting here. let me get straight to the point. I have a 40 gallon tank that i have been trying to cycle for 2 months now. I first tried a fishless cycle and got no where. I then introduced 2, 5 inch ranchu goldfish. the ammonia spiked and i removed the fish. i added fritz zyme 7 beneficial bacteria. it seemed to work, the ammonia went to zero. i reintroduced the 2 ranchu. the ammonia went up to 0.25 and stayed there for 2 days, then it went up to 0.50 and i removed the fish. it has hovered between 0.50 and 0.25 for three days now. I checked for nitrites and found zero. I checked for nitrates and found it to be 160 ppm, it could be higher as my test kit doesn't go higher than 160 ppm. I checked my ph and its at 6, so very acidic and ive ordered crushed coral to buffer. is it possible that the ph is preventing the bacteria from establishing enough to handle the ammonia? yet i have high nitrates so the cycle should be complete and working? any thoughts or advice would be helpful, thank you.
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