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Pet Forum / Aquaria / Goldfish / October 2007Please identify possible diseases
I have two common goldfish for more than 4 years. Please check the following links and help me identify what's wrong with them: 1) One of them has nubs on tail: http://img373.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tailtb4.jpg 2) The same one has patches on both sides: http://img229.imageshack.us/my.php?image=patchandspotmt0.jpg It's hard to see it at the picture, but the skin color is different. Skin is lighter outside but it's bloody red under the skin. At the same picture, you can see red (bloody) spot at second goldfish. They are happy and don't behave like sick. Six months ago, one of them changed color (become white), and the second one also lost color near the tail, and at the bottom. Please help, any advise is welcome. Thank you! On Oct 12, 12:56?am, jordan....@gmail.com wrote: > I have two common goldfish for more than 4 years. Please check the > following links and help me identify what's wrong with them: [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Please help, any advise is welcome. Thank you! Hi there. Those were great pictures, by the way. It's always *SO* helpful when you can actually see the fish and the problem. It could be one of several things happening, or more than one....so it's best to just go down the list and check them off one at a time. Fins that are very red with dilated vessels or a reddish tinge to them can be the signs of several things: Bacterial infection Nitrate poisoning Ammonia or Nitrite accumulation Parasites Stress Ditto with those spots on both the fish's bodies, as well as making sure you're not dealing with septicemia. I once saw a tank full of 6" and 8" Comets terribly infected with septicemia. It was horrible to see. Many of these fish were swimming around like there wasn't anything going on with them, yet their sides were bloodied, and fins were almost rotted off. Terrible. Sometimes are fish can have bad infections or infestations of parasites and behave like everything's peachy. So always try to look beyond the obvious However, in the mean time do a water change (unless you just did one a day or two ago). Check your water perameters and see where the health of the tank is at. This is the point when you have a better picture of what the cause is, and how to fix those fish. Nice looking Goldies too. I wish more folks would get to see grown Goldfish in their true beauty. Not the (often sickly) juveniles in cramped tanks at shops. In regard to the color changes, that's just what Goldies do. Often going from orange to white, or having a patch of color appear, or disappear on the body, etc. I love that about them. One day they're all red, orange and white and then you walk by the tank the next day and It's sporting a completely different coat. All Goldie keepers should be aware that one must keep up with fashion in the Goldfish world. I recently heard that white patches are all the rage now. = )~ because they arent acting sick, DONT USE HARSH MEDICATIONS. clean up the water starting by looking at your nitrate level, get a new kit. do 50% water changes for the next 4 days and add 1 teaspoon of solar type salt (rock salt, no additives) per 5 gallons of tank water or replaced water. it might be an internal infection, the second photo looks like a thickened slime coat. you CAN get and feed antibiotic food without toxing the fish ... http://www.goldfishconnection.com/shop/listing.php?parentId=5 has different ones. I havent used these, but other people on the Puregold list have. Ingrid >I have two common goldfish for more than 4 years. Please check the >following links and help me identify what's wrong with them: [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > >Please help, any advise is welcome. Thank you! Thank you very much for answers. I'm cleaning the tank as advised. My Goldies are still happy, but affected areas of skin are bigger. Here are better images: http://img87.imageshack.us/my.php?image=001cg3.jpg http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/6774/003axy9.jpg A guy from local Pet Store advised me to use Fungus Clear (http:// www.junglelabs.com/pages/details.asp?item=TB630) to treat water in tank. Re antibiotic food, I'm in Canada and can't order from www.goldfishconnection.com, my ZIP is not valid :-) dont use anything that doesnt list the ingredients. I am forwarding your letter to the Puregold list for more suggestions. Ingrid >Thank you very much for answers. I'm cleaning the tank as advised. My >Goldies are still happy, but affected areas of skin are bigger. Here [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >tank. Re antibiotic food, I'm in Canada and can't order from >www.goldfishconnection.com, my ZIP is not valid :-) Thank you. Please post here any answer you receive there. I can't access Puregold group. ahh.. see you have signed up, good. Ingrid >Thank you. Please post here any answer you receive there. I can't >access Puregold group. GF color does change, usually to all white. Ingrid Six months ago, one of them >changed color (become white), and the second one also lost color near >the tail, and at the bottom. > >Please help, any advise is welcome. Thank you! |
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