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My gorgeous new panda butterfly baby doing a little twirl

Posted: 22 May 2020 11:47 AM PDT

Been working on this for over a month! Getting my goldfish tomorrow.

Posted: 22 May 2020 10:25 PM PDT

When I Told the Fish Store This Little Fella Would Have a Hump They Said Very Unlikely. Well Look at My Boy Now!

Posted: 22 May 2020 09:00 PM PDT

My not so black ‘Black Moor’

Posted: 22 May 2020 01:09 PM PDT

Can watch this for hours

Posted: 22 May 2020 05:02 AM PDT

Housing koi and goldfish.

Posted: 22 May 2020 10:54 PM PDT

I know they are both domesticated forms of the same species of carp. I know they hybridize.

But will carp bully my goldies? I know they grow super fast so Im worried about them bullying the goldfish (My friend has baby 2 butterfly koi he needs to rehome and he knows I have a pond)

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Safe to put other fish or no?

Posted: 22 May 2020 09:59 PM PDT

So I had put two algae eater fish in my goldfish tank yesterday because the petsmart employee recommended them, and today one is missing and the other had it's stomach ripped out and eaten by presumably one of the goldfish. Is it safe to assume no other type of fish can go with the goldfish? I was looking for something to eat the algae in my tank because the tank is growing it fast since it's right in front of the window so there's plenty light. Would snails be ok or would they be eaten by the goldfish too fast?

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I could watch them all day

Posted: 22 May 2020 08:28 AM PDT

Turning off air pump at night

Posted: 22 May 2020 06:59 PM PDT

So I got a air pump and it is very noisy so it would not be a good idea to having it on at the night, I can turn it off or that would be bad for the goldfish?, if the answer is yes it is necessary having it? I already have a HOB filter of 380 liters/ 100 gal and two internal filters one of 450 liters/ 118 gal and the other of 200 liter/ 52 gal

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My new babies!! - any name suggestions?

Posted: 22 May 2020 12:40 PM PDT

just noticed this on my oranda's side. anyone know what it is / how to treat? extremely swollen under the scales. He is swimming normally. Hospital bucket +methylene blue? Thank you so much in advance

Posted: 22 May 2020 11:36 AM PDT

Please help - does anyone know what has happened to my goldfish’s eye? He seemed fine this morning and his eye looks filled with blood, the other eye is like a bubble. How can I treat this? He’s struggling to swim around and is upside down.

Posted: 22 May 2020 06:41 AM PDT

Solved: Swelling Lump or Cyst on Goldfish

Posted: 22 May 2020 09:43 AM PDT

I didn't get too much feedback when I posted about my sick goldfish a while back ( though I did appreciate the advice I did get!), but all the same I want to update on the outcome. There are no true fish MDs on forums, everything is anecdotal, and if you somehow manage to find a case with similar symptoms, no outcome is usually offered except for the fish died.

tl;dr: after replacing gravel with sand, I noticed what I thought were detritus worms on my snails. Kept a close eye on my tank, and had one snail die two weeks or so after. After this, I noticed that my fish had a slight swelling by on his upper torso by his right gill cover. I thought it might be a tumor but soon it was apparent it was a cyst. Began treating with antibiotics right as this cyst began to drain and I attempted to manually remove the growth. Another smaller cyst formed, and the original area swelled even more in the weeks after. Switched to medicated antibiotics foods and began treatments for parasites with three different meds. Slowly this took effect with frequent large water changes. Now over a month later I think I can say fish is finally healed.

Tank setup: one black Moore in a 20 gal tank (est and cycled in sep 2019) with 7 (now 4) ramshorn snails. I think this whole thing may have been kicked off when I replaced my gravel with sand on March 18.

Preface the long version to say I have a very hardy fish so I think I'm mostly lucky. I feel there was definitely a bacterial infection taking place, but treating for parasites was a reach because the only thing that had happened is I introduced sand to my tank. I noticed what looked like harmless detritus worms on my snails a week or so after, and my first snail died within three weeks, shortly before I noticed issues with my fish. My tank has had weekly ~50% water changes since it's been established, but the frequency was bumped up along with a slight salt increase for the whole month of treatment. There weren't symptoms of external parasites, but since my fish will eat and pass sand I was paranoid it could have been from internal. Still didn't go to a vet and didn't look at anything under a microscope so all of this is conjecture.

History of disease and treatment:

I notice a slight swelling by the right gill but still on the fish's torso around April 13. Spent the first three days observing, did an early water change, and fasted a day. The swelling was increasing though. If it was a tumor it was super aggressive. No other symptoms were present: he was active, eating normally (perhaps hungrier than normal), color was normal, and did not display flashing symptoms/ wasn't rubbing up on anything. Someone suggested it may be a cyst and there wasn't much to do but frequent water changes with increased salt, which I was already doing. I also began adding a light dose of a pretty harmless, yet useless, antibacterial treatment. I stopped this after four days.

By April 19, the swelling grown so that it had stretched and torn the skin. I could see the cyst poking through. It wasn't liquid like I would think pus would be, but looked to be a soft solid, maybe too much detail but it looked almost like firm tofu. It looked uncomfortable for him to swim since it was so large, but again still acting normally. Earlier in the day I began my first treatment of antibiotics (API doxycycline treatment) since it was now an open wound. When I noticed a new dead snail, I decide to stroke my fish's side to see if I could get a feel for this cyst while I was in the tank. To my surprise the gentle touch helped to make the cysts poke through the wound, so with a little more coaxing I got the mass out and removed the solid formation from the tank. The mass smelled HORRIBLE, so pretty clearly this was a bacterial infection. I noticed the wound was also bleeding a bit so after he had calmed down some from the slightly invasive stroking, I removed him from the tank into a conditioned and salted bucket of water (same temp as the tank) and swabbed the wound gently with one or two strokes of hydrogen peroxide. Perhaps not the safest thing but I wanted to try and get rid of the bacteria and dead flesh as much as possible, and I felt this was my best bet of trying to clean the open wound with the materials I had on hand.

For a day or two it seemed like this had helped. His right wound seemed to be healing, the swelling was going down. But by the 22nd I noticed a small bump growing low mid torso on his left side. At this point I had read enough to see that bacterial infections are usually secondary: you can treat them, but they will come back due to whatever is making the fish ill. It clearly wasn't a fungal infection, and there was no sign of an external parasite infection such a ich or anchor worms. He had started bottom sitting and heavy breathing with the antibiotic treatments, but if that was from the meds or something like gill flukes I couldn't say. A similar post on a forum led me to take the plunge and order hikari parazipro (treats flukes, tapeworms, flatworms, and turbellarians and is supposed to be extremely safe, which was true for my tank) and seachems metroplex (treats protozoan and anaerobic bacterial diseases, so treats internal and external infections). I did worry it could just be viral too and this would be useless.

The left cyst eventually came to a head and I did the same thing to avoid it naturally coming out and him eating it or it getting to spread all the bacteria around in the tank. I noticed he was passing more long, trailing clear feces even though he was eating normally. I assumed it may be from the antibiotics, though others have said this can indicate internal parasites, but when I saw a clear feces with what looked like blood in them I panicked and ordered levamisole HCl, pretty sure this was proof of internal parasites. This med was supposed to be the most gentle of all the internal parasites meds though so if it wasn't truly internal parasites I hoped it would be fine. ****There are many many posts saying internal parasites are extremely rare with goldfish, and clear feces is usually normal not a sign that your fish is sick. But personally I just felt like nothing else made sense in my situation.

Prazipro was the first med to come in on April 24 so that was my first dose. I removed my carbon filter at this time and just left it out for the meds. I also did a second dose of prazipro on May 5 just to make sure the first does had worked. I had finished the antibiotics (added to the tank) on the 23 but had started to feed "medicated" food on the 26 (my normal hikari pellets soaked in tank water with a sprinkling of the doxycycline powder). This medicated food was given in tiny amount up until around May 18. I got my levamisole and seachem meds on April 28 and began that too. The levamisole I treated twice: on the 28th and on May 19 to try to kill the parasites and any eggs that had survived the first round. The seachem metroplex I dosed the tank every two days until May 19. Seachem also come with a med called focus, which you can add to the metroplex and food for you goldfish, and I made around 1.5 doses of this and gave a small dose to my fish each day from when I started the dose to May 18.

Might have gone overboard with the meds, and again I don't know if this would have worked if my fish wasn't extremely hardy. Throughout this period of treatment with the parasite meds, the left cyst healed up nicely, but his right side with the original cyst began to swell even worse, a new lump began to grow on his chest, and his eyes bulged unevenly. Again this all began to pop up shortly after my parasite treatment started, around April 28, but as time went on things started to move in a better direction. Neither swellings came to a head like the previous ones, though the right side did slowly drain from an open wound. Soon the side was flat, though it was slightly grey and ridged as the scales and skin attempted to heal, and his chest area decreased in size and looks almost completely normal (I still think I see a slight bump, but I feel like he's always had that, and some of his tiny scales there still need to grow back normally).

Throughout this time I did water changes like crazy. Early on I did 9 gals a day, moved to 9-12 every other day, to a little further apart like 4 days. It was tough trying to gauge if I should let the meds circulate in the water, but again with the draining pus I usually opted for changes with slightly more salt than I normally add (I still eyeballed it, but I would guess I went from 1-<1 tsp per 3 gals to 2-3 tsp per 3 gal). Last dose for my meds was on May 19 and I'm just waiting to see if he gets any worse, but he seems to be on the mend. He looks like his old self and his behavior is back to normal. I did a 75% water change on the 21st and added my carbon filter back in (yay clear water!) and I finally feel like my tank it back to normal. I lost three snails but the four I have left are now free of the little worms and look like new snails. None of my plants died. Maybe I should wait another week or two but I'm pretty close to calling this a success! I'll continue to do larger water changes every four days and keep the salt dosage between normal and treatment probably until at least June, all the while monitoring for either the faux detritus snails or swelling on my fish. I may need to dose one more time with the levamisole, since there's debate on whether this can kill parasite eggs.

This is a long post that I don't really expect anyone to read or unless they're searching the internet after their fish has displayed the same symptoms my fish had. Even though I got frustrated looking for help, I was still glad there was at least a little to go off of, so I'm trying to pay it back. Hope everyone continues to have happy and healthy fish!

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Ideal hardness, alkalinity an pH for Goldfish?

Posted: 22 May 2020 12:08 PM PDT

Seeking help with sick veil tail goldfish

Posted: 22 May 2020 04:35 AM PDT

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