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Pet Forum / Aquaria / Goldfish / October 2007My Goldfish Died!
But why? The fish was a fairly standard goldfish with a nice comet type tail. It was about two years old and shared an 18x12x12 tank with 5 Whitecloud. I've been feeding with Tetrafin. The goldfish "jerome" has never exhibited any disease symptoms, no whitespot, no finrot, no slime disease, no clamp fin. All the Whitecloud have always demonstrated good health. Over the last few weeks Jerome started to slow down and stopped feeding over the past couple of days and is body (not fins though) started to droop. Yesterday morning the fish was curled up on the bottom of the tank barely alive. The gills were nice and bright. Now Jerome is dead. I've not come across this before - and take his as a knock to personal pride in my husbandry! The Whitecloud are all perfectly fine exhibiting none of the symptoms. Any ideas what this was? TIA Steve Was there a filter in the tank? Also have you tested your water parameters? (Should always be the first port of call if there is a problem). Mel. > But why? The fish was a fairly standard goldfish with a nice comet type > tail. It was about two years old and shared an 18x12x12 tank with 5 [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Steve > But why? The fish was a fairly standard goldfish with a nice comet type > tail. It was about two years old and shared an 18x12x12 tank with 5 [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Any ideas what this was? Did you test for HIV? It is possible Jerome was Homosexual. > Did you test for HIV? It is possible Jerome was Homosexual.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - I'm sorry the local TROLL , Roy, has impersonated my screen name using one of his many alternate email addresses. Iwould never say such a stupid thing, and I'm sorry if you thought it this post was made by me. Just check the emails....mine will always be the same, as his changes daily because they keep getting banned for abuse. sigh. Jerome might have been a Jenny and I too have found perfectly healthy koi just DEAD, not a mark on them. But when I did a necropsy I found infected eggs. The only sign of egg problems is the back end of the fish, the underside where the vent is begins to look "dumpy". Often running the temp up, feeding antibiotic food and a bit of Epsom salts in the water will help the fish get the eggs out. with no male to "drive her" to lay the eggs they get bound. I'm sorry. Fish are like birds, like my finches in that they look great and then I find them feet up on the bottom of the cage. they maybe have one day of sitting scrunched under the light. and yeah, a lot of finch problems are egg binding. Ingrid >The goldfish "jerome" has never exhibited any disease symptoms, no >whitespot, no finrot, no slime disease, no clamp fin. >Over the last few weeks Jerome started to slow down and stopped feeding over >the past couple of days and is body (not fins though) started to droop. >Yesterday morning the fish was curled up on the bottom of the tank barely >alive. The gills were nice and bright. Now Jerome is dead. |
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