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Just put 3 goldfish into a filtered tank yesterday Today they r stinking house out What should I do2007-11-24 23:38:00

hope that helps, if not go back to the shop and ask them to help.

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Unfortunately, what's happened is that the waste from your 3 goldfish has overloaded the beneficial bacteria that are in your filter.

I'm not really that surprised that a pet store sold you everything all together, but you really ought to have started with perhaps one goldfish until the bacteria had had chance to colonise the filter.

The only thing that you can realistically do is to change some of the water. It should be with water that has been left to stand for about 24 hours as this would have allowed some of the chlorine to dissipate. (Sadly, chlorine has a detrimental effect on the gills of fish. Instead of being nice pink, filamentous gills, they will become 'clubbed' due to the effects of the chlorine in the water.) I don't know if you have one, but it would help the fish greatly if you oxygenated the water. This will allow the chlorine to dissipate at a faster rate. (The 'clubbed' gills are not so adept at extracting oxygen from the water as they would normally.)

As saz has just indicated, overfeeding will only compound the situation by adding extra detritus (muck) to the system.

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buy air freshner?

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What size tank and fish? It is recommended that you have a minimum of 1 gallon tank capacity per (mature) inch of fish. What you are smelling is ammonia. That you can smell it that quickly leads me to believe you do not have a large enough tank. Because goldfish produce such large amounts of ammonia, biological filtration is not going to be enough.