heartstrung

So I have a Chinese Redcap and a Chocolate Oranda. Both are still quite small. Now, I had a large Chocolate Oranda that had the same problem as the Redcap, but this was awhile ago and I couldn't figure out what it was then either, I ended up returning him and he passed away the day after (tried anti fungal and super ich cure).

The Redcap has white cotteny looking fuzz on his cap, he is fairly active but has started spending some time in the corner of the tank at the bottom. Which is where my Large brown oranda had spent his time after he became ill.. or rather, his illness became worse. I called a few pet stores, some said to use ich cures and some fungal cures. Neither of these worked for the large oranda, and neither of these are working for the redcap either. I don't know what is wrong with it, it hasn't gotten cotten like sports per say but it is definately looking like mold growing in the crevices of his brain textured cap. I don't know what it is, and no one can seem to help me so I am asking you all if you ever experienced or know of another person who has had this problem.

Now, for the little Chocolate Oranda. His fins seem pretty frayed at the tips. We though finrot, but I am not sure. He also has a torn part of the tail that we think occured from being in the hospital tank, because we thought we would try some cures, now I can see red spots on his tail and I am a bit worried that we hurt him somehow by trying to move him from the Hospital tank to the main tank. We have 6 fish total, the others are not showing any sign of anything (calico telescope eye, black moore, red and white oranda and another chocolate oranda) When we had separated the two fish intot he hospital tank they got into a depressed like state and stopped eating and swimming, both spending their time at the bottom of the tank looking scared. We put them back into the main tank and they are back to their normal selves but with the same problems. I don't know what to do... We are first time fish owners and I love them dearly I am just at a loss!

Jay

Hey heartstrung...Welcome to our forum

Sorry to hear about your fish's problem and your stress .

I would go here and review the information we need to begin to help you....

http://www.fishtankforums.com/5-fres...ting-help.html (Getting Help)

Post the information asap, along with pictures if possible. This will give our members a good chance of diagnosing the true problem and getting it under control. Otherwise we are all just guessing.

Jay

heartstrung

I have a 37 gallon tank, and I have had it now since December of 2008. I don't know of the ammonia levels, but we use tank buddies ammonia clear and do about 25% water change outs every other week, although with the ailments of these fish we have done a 50 and a 75% water change out in the past 2 months using water conditioner (the brand is from a local pet store). We have an eclipse tank with the carbon filter and the biowheel, the filter is changed every 2 weeks as goldfish are a bit dirty and to do the change out we have the hose vaccum with the faucet attachment. The other fish are perfectly fine, our first 2 orginal fish seem to be the healthiest (but unfortunately the stupidest), and they reside in 69-70 degree water. We feed the fish 2-3 times a day, about a pinch of flakes and a pinch and a half of pellets. Again, I have six small/med (some are inbetween sizes) gold fish, the red cap, the 2 chocolate orandas, a telescope eye, a black moore and a red and white oranda.