Hello again,
Thank you for getting back to me. I am glad to know the 'see through' fish are normal. I am enclosing pics of the babys and the adult fish. There are two tanks. The10 gal. is brand new for the 'larger' fish- ha ha. That's why it's still cloudy. There are about nine in there. The largest one is the killer of half the population in one night. The 5 gal tank has the littler ones. You can see the smallest one is at the bottom of the
sponge filter. He looks the size of a newborn. Most of the other 10 are also pretty small. The water quality reads within normal parameters, except sometimes the
nitrite and
nitrate are a pale pink. I do small
water changes and add a nitrate remover.
Ammonia is neg. I have an electric gravel vac, that is gentle and seems to get a lot of detrius out. after working in the tank, I add a drop of Stree Guard. I do The temp is 74 ish. The sponge filter has an
air stone in the plastic straw and is gentle and quiet. Their diet is a variety of protein, vegetable,
brine shrimp. I cannot fathom why they are not growing at at least a semi normal rate. They appeared the last week of August or the first week of Sept . I am adding Malaysian snails very soon. one month
quarantine. The other pics are of the pond fish. The 2 white ones are male and female. They were the predominant mating pair. There are 4 regular goldfish, five multi colored Shebunkin including a black and red one. THEN there is the big Blue one. He used to be a Shebunkin for a few years. He was small for years and this spring grew as large as the white ones. Then SURPRISE, at the beginning of fall, I noticed how he had a growth spurt. That's when I saw the
barbs, and realized I'd gotten a Koy baby mixed in with my shebunkins. Knew he was special all along. Whenever I emptied the pond to clean and netted the other fish, he would jump out of the water and over my shoulder to land behind me. So the gold and shebunkins, (and of course white), could be contributers, but not Blue due to his Breed. PLEASE, I don't want to be a GM forever. I was hoping to place them in a mini pond with a
heater when they are big enough. I hope you have advice on how to get them to the normal percentile of growth. Thanks again, Bettachon