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Hi everyone, I have gold fishes and wondering why after two days they gradually died. Is there something wrong with the water in my aquarium? I am using tap water.

Well gold fish are pretty hardy. Did you put a dechlorinator in the water? Goldfish dont belong in most tanks, but a pond. What size tank did you have them in?
There are other cold water fish that are better suited to a tank. Let us know if you want to know more.

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HI Boony,
Welcome to Fish Profiles.
If you go to the internet and search on "goldfish and
their husbandry" you will find all sorts of information.
Most of it will tell you of the demands of that species.

They are of the carp family, primarily a cold water fish
prefering cooler, not tropical,temperatures.
Because of the cooler water, the water is higher in
oxygen content.
You would need to keep them in a tank that gives each fish
around 10 gallons of water apiece. They grow huge, are
messy eaters, and give off a very large amount of both
solid and liquid waste. They can easily foul a tank and
the owner not realize how "bad" the water has become.
That leads to the fish becoming sick and early deaths.

Depending upon what size that tank is, you could need to
do water changes as often as every day to keep their water
"clean." Along with the water changes you would have to
siphon off all of the solid waste. At least once a week
you would need to vacuum the gravel as well.

If you do not have a test kit that will test for Ammonia,
Nitrite, and Nitrate, take a water sample to your LFS
and ask them to test it. Most will do it for free with
the expectation that you purchase "things" from them
instead of a rival.

Frank

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