Amber -

The white dots ARE most likely Ich. The medicine usually does work. Try and put the bowl in a warm spot (not TOO warm, but perhaps in a warmer room, preferably a bit darker too). Ich does much worse in warmer temperatures, but unfortunately so do goldfish, so Ich can be hard to get rid of.

The MOST important thing though, is good filtration (no carbon while medicating though). Goldfish produce waste at a much higher rate than most fish, and can raise ammonia levels dangerously quickly. The quarantine bowl is a good idea though, if you can't medicate in the home tank (A lot of medication can stain tank sealant, so again, good idea with the bowl).

I would recommend feeding only VERY tiny amounts while in the bowl, due to lack of filtration, and to do >50% water changes daily. If you do this, try and use water from the tank, if there are no fish in it - this way the water is the right temp, hopefully has constant pH values (depending how long it has been set up), and has no harmful chemicals like chlorine from tap water. This should be less stressful for your fish.

Adding a small amount of kosher salt or aquarium salt (any non-iodized salt) to the water can also help reduce stress. 1/2 teaspoon per gallon is helpful, and it's recommended to ward off diseases as well, when your goldfish is healthy :)

As for feeding - for now I would not change his diet, but you can feed your goldfish lots of different things. Sometimes mine get bloodworms (usually saved for my tropical fish) as a special treat... often they get crushed-up peas, which I take from the freezer and thaw for them. They'll eat pretty much -anything-, so look each thing up before feeding, in case it's not good for them.

That's all I've got for now... good luck and I hope all goes well.

-Fai

I am worried about my Black Moor goldfish. I bought a ten gallon tank in January and my fish (Waddle Fish) shortly after. He has been doing well, but has not grown much and now has a coat of white dots (think salt) all over his body. I was told this is called Ick. My husband is getting medicine for it tonight. But, other then that I have no knowledge of this. I've moved him into a goldfish bowl that I bought as a nurse tank. Was this the right thing to do? I am also working on draining and cleaning his home tank and saving the aquarium plants.
And I am also concerned I am not feeding him properly. I only give him Tetra Goldfish food. I fear I am hurting my little friend by being undereducated on goldfish care. Please help.

I have 2 black moors in a 97 liter tank with 1 orange fantail and 3 shubunkins. i know i shouldn't put voracious feeders in with black moors but its been 2 years now and they all get enough food and have grown considerably. They love fresh peas and zucchini too. I change 1/3 of the tank every 3 months. My problem is one moor has something (velvet?) over both eyes and is trying to eat at feeding time but not finding the food. I'm using "multicure" deep green in colour, but i don't see a difference.

I have just bought one his name is hella-bore he is soo cute, i also have a orange and white fantail called alice they are a great couple

Hi there, I just wanted to thank you guys for all the information! I had bought two comet goldfish, and tried to put a Fancy goldfish and a moor in with them because I bought them a new tank that was 25 gallons. I was watching them carefully because I thought they were going to fight, when the Moor was very lethargic and always sitting at the bottom, i researched them and found out that they do not do well in a tank with more competitive fish like the comet and fancy, I changed the moor to a smaller tank probably ten minutes ago, gave him a small amount of food and now he is so much better! Thank You so much!! :D The poor fishy probably would have died :(

I got one 4 months ago, named Hubble, he was black, but now he is almost all orange... I have a black moor or a commom telescope???
(so sad, I liked it black...)

The Black Moor and the gold Fantail are my favorites. I once had one of each in a 10gal tank (Fish, the Fantail, and Chips, the Moor) and when Fish died Chips got terribly depressed. I bought him/her another goldfishy tankmate some days later and he/she still moped around for a while. It took Chips several weeks to mourn the loss of Fish and accept there was another fish in the tank. I was quite impressed with the personality of Chips and mourned his/her death, too.

i have a black moor named rocky bow bubbles and a bronze moor named pogy

Response to Kelly.....
The reason why the eye of your goldfish was growing was probably because it was damaged when he got scared, and the result of that was swelling of the eye. You can relate it to when a human jams there finger, the result is swelling. It is just a response of your body and its immune system.

Response to Yvonne O...
When selecting fish for your tank there is one important rule to follow,if the fish is tropical there should be one inch of fish per one gallon. However for goldfish, there can be two inches of fish to every one gallon.

we have 2 black moors we do not know if they male or females on my computer right now and looking up if there males or females .so let us know ok from shauntel

A black fish with "fangs" aka barbels is a description of a black buttterfly koi not a moor.

I have recently bought a black moore goldfish and i noticed two long white things which resemble fangs coming from its mouth. my other fish have also had strange cuts on them which i fear have been caused by the black moore. Does anybody know what is happening

I have a very big (5 inches - body-not including tail fins) beautiful black moore. He hangs out with his best buddy - the algea eater. I changed the tank water today and was careful moving my black moore from the tank to the big bowl so I could change the water in it without scaring him. Well my delema is - when I picked up the bowl after cleaning the tank, he got scared and flew around in the bowl a few times panicing and then when he calmed down I got him back in the tank, he seemed to be exhausted and I noticed that one of his eyes has a red circle/spot in it about a 1/4 inch across(like we get if we break a blood vessle in our eye) and then within a half hour that same eye was bigger and then when I checked him again and hour later his eye looked even bigger. I am concerned that he may have damaged his eye in his scurrying. My other concern is on my very close inspection of my black moore he seems to be wearing some sort of clear/blue tinted vest lol. I know it sounds funny but it is no joke. It isn't over all of his body just like it is laying on top of him like shear blanket -see through.... Can anyone help me figure out what I should do. I don't want to lose him I love him soo much... Thank you so much, Kelly

I have a 20 gallon tank and would like to put 4 goldfish in it. Is this too many for this size tank? How long will they be able to stay in this tank?

omg my fish is so pretty and it always go into are ship, well i think its a girl and haveing babys

I bought a gold telescope eye gold fish and now it has turned black with a white belly. It is really beautiful. I thought it was sick when it started to turn black but he continued to grow and thrive so I think it must have been genetic. Has anyone ever experienced this with their fish?

Dude.... 6 moors in a 13 gallon and you are trying to breed them in there??? For that many fish you need at least a 55 gallon

I have a moor fish and happy to know how long their life span is my moor fish was black all over with a sliver belly 2 years later my morr is now gold and sliver belly one eye is black in side and the other looks normal i think that the black eye could be a blind one . I was worried with the eye and the change of colour but you can see how happy and chilled my moor fish is with he,she's 3 mates ..

i have a tank and im going to buy a few black moor fish soon how can you tell their genders? please i would like to know because i think it would be nice to become a black moor breeder! so please can you help me

Reply to arlene...
if you have a moor goldfish that is nearly orange, i highly doubt that you have a black moor fish. since your goldfish looks like a "regular goldfish" it seems very likely that you have a regular goldfish with some strangely colored scales. a picture would put all questions to rest however, so if you need identification, please post a reply and i will give you my email address.

i really like the black moore my sis got a fish tank and a black moore i really like it i will be getting a tank in two weeks time and i am going to get a black moore for sure what does an airstone do and will there be inaf room for it the tank is 21 liters

You should not be keeping that many goldfish in a 13 gallon aquarium... at the very least each fish requires 10 gallons, preferably more, as they will grow very large, and create much more waste and toxic ammonia than tropical fish. You should also have a filter that is rated for twice the size of your aquarium, for example, if you have a 20 gallon aquarium, you should have a filter rated for at least 40 gallons.

I like the shape of the Black Moor. It's eyes stick out kinda like a Telescope Eye, which is my favorite thing about em.

i have a moor fish , but! here's the catch the body shape is more like a regular goldfish type long body w/ normal fins... it's nearly pure orange... can this be considered a rare moor fish?

A boy fish is more slender than a girl fish. Boys get white dots on their heads during mating season.

how can we identify the male&female moor, cause I would like to breed this kind of fish. Currently I have 6 moors in my 13gal aquarium.