Pictures of the Goldfish <3

**happylabs** · 02-24-2010, 03:17 PM

I have not had fish as pets for quite some time. Seeing your pics makes me want to have them again. They are beautiful! The first pic of Chubbie...I love his face! And Chubby, Jr. is very pretty with his bright orangeness.

When my kids were little we had lots of fish. They all had names and some were quite unique. We had one fish called Periwinkle because his color reminded me of the crayon periwinkle. His nickname was Perry. Then we had two algae eaters, Al and Aunt Al.

Thanks for posting the lovely photos!

**Kalei** · 02-24-2010, 06:33 PM

Thanks so much for the compliments on my fishies

I can't remember when I didn't own fish lol. Chubby and Chubby Jr. I love so so much, they are just the cutest, and Chubby is my oldest in the tank

He is quite the loner but he loves food :P

Fish always bring me a sort of peace and when I watch them I feel less stressed

**Kalei** · 02-25-2010, 07:05 PM

Does anyone have any ideas of what I could do about Happy Fin's problem? I looked at him intensly last night and noticed that he has lost a lot of weight, and its because he can't eat very much at all because he can't see. He doesn't even go to the top anymore because he can't see the food around him.

Last night I put a sinking pellet in and tried to aim it for right in front of his face...and only because he was going crazy at the rocks is why he actually got it.

It's sad Like I said, I can't chop off his big cap so I'm at a lost for suggestions, except for picking him up and literally hand feeding him lol

**cloverfdx** · 02-26-2010, 09:03 AM

Poor Happy Fins

. This may sound extreme but you dont know of a Vet that specialises in fish do you? even though they probably wont realy be able to do anything sadly

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You can put him in a breeding net by himself to feed and pretty much hand feed him?

Your tank looks great, very colourful

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**Kalei** · 02-26-2010, 04:49 PM

Originally Posted by cloverfdx

Poor Happy Fins

. This may sound extreme but you dont know of a Vet that specialises in fish do you? even though they probably wont realy be able to do anything sadly

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You can put him in a breeding net by himself to feed and pretty much hand feed him?

Your tank looks great, very colourful

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I live in a really small townish type place, I don't think we have those type of vets around here, but I've done alot of vet type things myself for my fish, including handling them when I had too.

Last night I held Happy Fins in my hand under water and put a pellet in his mouth, but he spat it back out

He probably was scared and didn't know it was food. So, then I just threw a few sinking pellets in by his face and he managed to eat one. He managed to eat one this morning too, but he is a big size fish and should eat more than one. But one is better than nothing at least.