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on and things to hide under – are they just ungrateful or what?

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on and things to hide under – are they just ungrateful or what?

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Jon Please help, I think the fish is dying 🙁 7/29/05 Hi WWM crew, thanks for taking the time to help me. I’m having some problems with a calico fantail goldfish. I am fish-sitting for my friend’s 2 calico fantails. They are in a 2.5 gallon tank <... needs to be about ten times this volume> with a filter and light, but no airstone (yes, I am aware this is WAY too small, but they are not mine and I can’t afford to buy all the necessities for someone else). Here’s the current problem: yesterday, one got his tail caught in the filter. I turned off the filter and he got himself out, but the half of his tail that was caught is shredded. I called a pet store right away to ask what I could do and they said that the fish would regrow the tail in time. I then looked at your site for more info and saw that the main thing I could do was keep the tank clean to prevent infection. As she had not told me to clean it (or even do partial ch