I think you should tranfer your fish in a basin with new water then
have a general clean the milk is polluting the water





--- In worldwidegoldfishclub@yahoogroups.com, "dburkhuad"
<dburkhead@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Just got some new goldfish. My wife and I took our daughter to a
> Japanese "summer festival" up in Chicago and my daughter "won" a
> goldfish in a game there. Well, that meant a tank ("starter kit"
> actually), food, and chlorine remover. Then my wife wanted us to
get
> some more fish so the one "won't be lonely" so we bought two more
> (comets, about 1 1/2" long--the "prize" fish was similar size and
> shape, but dark along the back, light along the sides and
red/orange
> in the belley).
>
> Well, come to find out that the "tank" is way, way too small for
three
> goldfish (actually more "goldfish bowl" sized, just rectangular).
So
> it's off to the store today to pick up a more appropriate tank (a
29
> gallon "starter kit" with filter, heater, hood and light, and
> thermometer). I also picked up more chlorine remover, a set of
water
> test strips with individual pads to test pH, alkalinity, total
> chlorine, total hardness, nitrite, and nitrate levels, and about 35
> lbs of gravel.
>
> So I set up the tank, fill it, test the water (pH between 7.8 and
8.4,
> total alkalinity about 180 KH ppm, total chlorine 0, total Harness
> about 150 GH ppm, nitrites 0, and nitrates 0), and start the filter
> and pump running to let the system cycle for a few days before I
move
> the two remaining fish (the "prize" fish promptly died on us) into
it.
>
> Well the very evening I get it set up, my daughter (who is about 3
> 1/2) pours some of her milk, and some of a "yogurt drink" into the
tank.
>
> Is there anything I can do to fix this short of emptying the tank,
> taking everything apart, and starting over?
>