Why does my goldfish look like its tutning orange???

Question

I have two goldfish that are white in colour, the y both seem to be turning orange along the head and tail.Is it normal?And my tank stinks!!!!Its horrible. Its a 10 litre tank with four small goldfish.and the water gets cloudy within hours of cleaning it.Pls help.

Answer 1

First, it is perfectly normal that goldfish change color. Goldfish's genes are being constantly mutated through breeding and cross-breeding to get different body shapes and colors. Thus, very few colors have ever gotten a chance to become stable and, over time, many of the unstable colors such as white and black will revert back to the more stable colors of gold and orange. Second, with regard to your cloudy, stinky water, the reason that it is that way is because you are seriously overcrowded. You have a 10 litre tank with four goldfish in it. Goldfish are extremely high waste producers and need a lot of space in order to be healthy. The rule is goldfish must have 38 litres per fish minimum and up to 76 litres per fish. Thus, for your four goldfish to be in the proper size tank, your tank must be 151 litres minimum. You also need to test the water to be sure that the ammonia, nitrites and nitrates are at the proper parameters. You also need to have a good filter. For goldfish, you don't buy a filter based on what the box says it is good for, i.e., "for up to a 50 litre tank." You must buy it on how many litres it pumps per hour based on the size of your tank. You should buy a filter that pumps 10X the water per hour for the size of your tank. So, for a 151 litre tank, the pump should say that it pumps 1,514 litres per hour. Sorry if my metric conversions sound a little strange. I'm converting from what I know, gallons, to litres, so your pump and tank increments might be a little different, but you get what I mean. This environment is very unhealthy for your fish and they will get diseases and die if the size of the tank and a good filter is not dealt with. If you can't afford a real aquarium, those plastic storage containers work great until you can afford to buy a real aquarium. With a 10 litre tank, you need to be doing water changes every day with spring water. Read up on goldfish care, water cycling, water changes, feeding, etc. and you will understand a lot better how to overcome the cloudy, stinky water. Good luck!

Answer 2

When you clean your tank are you vacuuming the gravel? The cloudiness could be the feces & byproducts that settle along the bottom and in the gravel getting stirred up. You can fix this by buying a tank vacuum -- it is a smaller longer tube attached to a larger (shorter tube). You take the larger tube, put it in the tank and the smaller tube goes into a bucket -- you let gravity pull the water. The gravel will suck up into the large tube, but not pass through and the dirt and water gets sucked up & emptied into the bucket.

Only change about 1/3 of the water at a time because of the beneficial bacteria. You don't want to stress the fish. Also, add chlorine/chloramine neutralizer to the new water before adding it. Stress Coat is a good one, and there are some other good ones, too.

You should have a good filter on there ,too. One with the little paddle wheel that sits on the back of the tank. The paddle wheel keep beneficial bacteria growing in the media which helps.

Good luck.

Answer 3

Your goldfish will die of water toxicity if you don't get them a 40 gallon tank that is filtered and cycled. They will be lucky if they die quickly rather than suffering in the poor conditions you give them. The orange around the head and tail could be a bacterial infection, signs of toxins in the water, or septicemia. You need a bigger tank and clean water.

Answer 4

i would suggest that this is a normal behaviour with many fish..i have a blue morfh which keeps changing colour from blue to a dirty yellow and it stays this way for days.i would suggest a change of diet..feed the goldfish less because even if they are full they eat all that is given to them.so u may feed them less first and try and then maybe change the diet..im sure it will work..keep the aquarium constantly clean and maybe put in a cleaner like sucker mouth catfish so that algae and fungal growth may be less..

Answer 5

I got two gold fish and my tank is little i clean it every week
It's quite normal coz i got an orange fish (NOW) my one was white to and my other fish was black
My black is turning soth of Brown
And my white one is orange so i hink its normal and if your tank is really dirty you should clean it every week or buy that self cleaning thingy
on ebay its cheap i think if u can find it
well then you dont have to clean it for a year
its will be clean all the time
hope i helped pick as best answer!

Answer 6

Fish turn colorations while they're under pressure, style of a demonstration of protest in a fashion. could replaced lights? Tanks, Rock/gravel, nutrition? something could be stressing him, it is in many situations severe using fact the extra the fish is under pressure, the less they produce a slime coating, which permits them combat off some ailment. it is advisable to bypass out and purchase some Aquarium Salts. it fairly is away stable to have obtainable besides, even nonetheless it's going to help produce a slime coating, sell healthful gill function, and is risk-free for clean water fish. purely study the instructions. stable success.

Answer 7

fish change colors as they grow. they need to have a filtered tank. no exceptions. especially with goldfish as they are ver dirty. They should be in a much larger tank as they will grow quickly. gold fish need 5 gallons of water for inch of fish but you must do this according to thier adult size. 10litres is waay to small. they will not survive for long.

Answer 8

It is turning color because it is changing from female to male. You have Japanese goldfish and if they are placed in a tank with another fish of the same sex one will change sex automatically

Answer 9

you sound as if you need to have a better filtration system in your tank.. remember not to overfeed either,,, you can feed fish every couple of days..