The looks normal growth on KO to me too. Here's a link to an article by Ann Peck who posts here as Ann in Tn (or something like that) - on RRD. You can compare pictures. There's a link in the article to her ebook on RRD also. Gean Here is a link that might be useful: article by Ann Peck on RRD

you definitely have a sick fish. i think the best treatment for sick goldfish is what is called the salt treatment. make sure the water is clean, aerated and use dechlorinater. keep the fish in 1% salt solution as described on the package for healthy fish. if you have a sick fish you can increase that to 3x the recommended for a few weeks until the fish recovers. this amount will damage live plants so don't do it in a planted aquarium. but aquarium or pond salt from a pet storeÂdon't use table salt as it usually contains iodine. kosher sea salt is ok, but will cost you 10 times what pond salt will. it is very cheap and as effective as most medications. it will contribute to the overall health of the fish so you should use even if the fish are healthy to increase thier slime coat and protect their gills from nitrate damage. i try not to use medications because they often harm bacteria cultures and will cost more than the goldfish. i use salt constantly and have never had a sick fish that did not come to me sick. water changes are usually beneficial as long as you treat the water, keep the temperature constant and don't stress the fish when you do it. good luck.

ummm, is the planting material in the barrel holding too much water? I have found I have to load the bottom of a big barrel with styro or other big material and then plant in just maybe 1/3 of the upper portion. gives the plants room to grow w/o being in too much moisture. might change your mulch too....that black stuff might have been hiding in some of it waiting to explode. just my '2 cents'.

The salesman intially said the demonstration would take an hour. 3 hours later they were still at my house, convincing me to purchase this vaccuum. Dont get me wrong this was an amazing Vacuum!!! However the salesman had no concerns that i most likely couldnt afford this vaccuum. He had all these different priced plans, advising the price would normally be 3000.00, however he would bring it down to 2500.00 with fewer payments. He could see that i was still struggling to figure out how i was going to finance this vaccuum, He appeared to be making phone calls to head office to bring the price down and at the last minute bought it down to 2000.00 After calcluating the interest, it ended up costing 3000.00 anyway. My main problem with this is that it felt rushed. I couldnt find 3 forms of ID and desperately wanted him to leave after 3 hours and done a stupid thing like sign the forms just so they could leave. He didnt care that i didnt have ANY form of ID, he didnt care that i didnt know my bank account number, he advised as long as i purchased and signed on the dotted line, then everything else would fall into place. He advised he couldnt come back again as this needed to be done asap. They also took my old vaccuum with them. Everything seemed dodgy, and i had my kids running around hungry so i felt extremely pressured. After they left i sat down looking at this machine thinking what the hell have i purchased??!!! I looked around on websites like trademe (nz) and found other types of machines at the price of 500.00. By this time i was pissed! I immediately called headoffice and cancelled the order and they advised someone would call me to inform me of cancellation procedures. The next day after work these two guys came over again. (no call or notification to say they were coming) They were standing asking me why i wanted to cancel the machine STILL trying to convince me that there is no other like this. They even had the nerve to sit inside and say they called head office and they would lower the price another 200.00. I ended up telling them to take their vacuum and leave my house. I asked them where my original vaccuum was and they asked me what colour it was? I told them to leave and advised them to bring back my original vaccum or else i would make a complaint and slammed the door. 5 days later i still havent recieved my old vaccuum. This whole ordeal was a horrible experience for me and these salesmen were dodgy as!!! Never again