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I have a very large goldfish I''ve had it almost 5 ...


Sent to Pet Experts March 02 7:31 p.m.
I have a very large goldfish I''ve had it almost 5 years! For the last 3 days she has been just sitting on the bottom of the tank,there are no markings or spots on her.I think she''s constipated and have been trying to feed her peas,she hasn''t eaten anything for 3 days got any suggestions?

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Age: 5; Female; Breed: goldfish

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peas adding 1tsp salt to 10 gal of water checking to make sure water is ok
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March 02 7:34 p.m. (2 minutes and 45 seconds later)
In cases such as these the first place to look is the water parameters.

Has the water been tested for levels of ammonia, nitrites and nitrates and if so what were the results?

Have regular partial water changes been a part of the maintainence routine?
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Sent March 02 7:37 p.m. (2 minutes and 59 seconds later)
yes the levels all check out ok and I do a partial water change every 7 days, there are other fish in the tank with her and they are fine.
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March 02 7:54 p.m. (17 minutes and 40 seconds later)
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Sent March 02 8:01 p.m. (6 minutes and 46 seconds later)
Between christmas and New years my fish got ick from a new fish that I had gotten,could this have something to do with that? I treated the whole tank for 14 day like it said to and I thought I got rid of them, there are no white spots on any of them now!
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March 02 8:04 p.m. (3 minutes and 6 seconds later) 		ACCEPTED Check Mark
Whenever a new fish is added to a fish tank it's always a possiblity that it carries a disease that will infect the other fish but in your case as the bout with Ick was 2 months ago and all has cleared up it's unlikely that the new fish has caused this problem.
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