Pics Of My Oranda... Options

[Hamad]

I left for a week out of town and asked my cousin to make sure none of my cats get into the room where the tank is and she ended up putting the fish in a bowl and keeping her somewhere high without my permission! I came back finding the fish almost dying so I changed the tank's water immediately and added the fish in it with the air pump set on high...


here are the pics of the fish right after added to the tank and 5 hours later...

[HappyBuddha]

Besides I change 80% of water daily because I've discovered that all water tests they sell in this country are expired or almost expired! So having a cycled set up will be hard without tests...and changing 80% of water in a 50gallon daily is tooo much work for one fish.

How about his, hamad... put the fish in your large tank but fill it up with 15-20 gallons of water only. The low (but wide) water height will have less water pressure, better oxygen exchange, and supposingly good for the development of headgrowth, prevents the tails from collasping and teaches the fish to swim level too. Just make sure the water level is high enough to allow the fish to fully extend its fins.