Goldfish Sick

[DancingBetta]

My goldfish is lying on the bottom of his tank. He seems to be missing some scales. He was acting fine yesterday. He started swimming around when I come close, but lays back down when I leave. Please help.

 

[DancingBetta]

He also seems to have some red streaks in his tail...

 

[Sgooosh]

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He also seems to have some red streaks in his tail...

i am not sure about the damage but he seems stressed. i heard salt will help? @Colin_T

 

[DancingBetta]

He’s swimming around a bit now, but he seems to have a bit of difficulty moving around as much as usual. His scales seem kind of... glossy. And he’s opening and closing his mouth quite a bit.

 

[DancingBetta]

Ah. He just sank back down again.

 

[DancingBetta]

I tested the water and the nitrites are at 2. Any recommendations?

 

[Sgooosh]

Water change and add baxteria will help i suppose

 

[Colin_T]

Its caused by poor water quality (ammonia and nitrite).

Reduce feeding to once every couple of days.

Do a 75% water change and gravel clean the substrate every day until the readings are 0ppm.
Make sure any new water is free of chlorine/ chloramine before it's added to the tank.

 

[DancingBetta]

Thank you!

 

[DancingBetta]

He now has a fungal infection which I am treating. Fingers crossed!

 

[DancingBetta]

The nitrites are back to normal today!

 

[Colin_T]

add salt to treat fungus. use 2 heaped tablespoons per 20 litres of water.

 

[DancingBetta]

Ok I will do that thank you

 

[DancingBetta]

Poor Finn can’t catch a break! He has some sort of fin rot, could the fungus have been fin rot all along? Anyway, he spends time at the bottom but still eats and is active.

 

[mark4785]

If the fins are ragged that is fin-rot. If they are ragged with redness on the tips that is active fin-rot. Keep doing water changes until you reach 0 ppm for ammonia and nitrite. This will stop the red streaks but you will need an anti-bacterial treatment for the fin rot. The best anti-bacterial treatment that I know of is Waterlife Myxazin.