A Few Pics Of My Goldfish And A Story

Just a few pics of my goldfish ;









But more importantly this thread is about a little success story of mine. See this happy little goldfish playing in the bubble stream here ;




This is the same goldfish last year when i first bought it;




It was SOO skinny when i first bought it. Basically what happened is, i was choosing goldfish to buy at a lfs a long time ago, when i saw this goldfish and asked the guy top net it for me 'cos i liked its patterns. However i didn't notice how seriously skinny the goldfish was until the guy had netted it and put it in the bag with the other goldfish.
For a moment, i paused as i decided whether i should ask the guy to put the goldfish back or not. I knew leaving the goldfish at the petshop would be like giving it a death sentence since this goldfish was obviously sick and undernourished and i knew the petshop wouldn't medicate the fish or give it any TLC etc. So as my soft heart got the better of me, i decided to keep the goldfish and see if i could nurse it back to good health myself.

For months i medicated it for both internal bacteria and internal parasites, trying different meds, and feeding it a special high energy varied diet of 3portions a day. The goldfish took a long time before i saw any improvement though, it had suffered some serious neglect, but the goldfish start to get better eventually after many months of special care.

Now days its a very happy little goldfish and is in top health, it is not the best shaped shunbunkin comet there is, the base of the tail at the top still has a bit of a bump (which the goldfish has always had, looks like it is from poor gene's), but i love the little goldfish- it has an interesting loveable character, it also has one brown/red eye and one dark blue/grey eye which i think adds to its unique character even more .

i had a lil sucsess story toit seem to me that my lil oranda was negleted it was really skinney really dull was pooing long stringy white poo an wouldent eat or swimm i treated it for ich an internal parasite meds after a week it started to eat so i fed it 3 times an kept it in the hospital tank 2 save infecting my preashious blackmoor i still need to the sex of them am kinda hoping thay will mate there right as rain now its only young the oranda (dont no if there boy an/or girls) an there both gonna live long an happy life btw my pic is them

Lovely oranda's you have there and nice story too, your goldfish look very healthy .

thanks yours to
so is your fish orandas?

*blacksnapemoor* said:

thanks yours to
so is your fish orandas?

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Nah they are comet and common goldfish varieties, the comets are the ones with longer tails (for example the orange white nosed one is a common, while the grey shubunkin one is a comet) .

thanks btw is this normal my blackmoor keep swimming intom the orther fish do you think i need a female?