Goldfish With Lumps Problem

[Tokis-Phoenix]

any salt is ok even pickling... so marine if you want or tonic..whichever is cheaper and easier to get hold of. as for the meds..uk is appalling for treating fish over the counter...most meds are just so weak. internal antibiotic food is what you really need and rommet B I think can be gotten hold of through vets, though this might only be for the US....sighs...so youll have to keep going with interpet. potassium permanganate from chemists may help or from internet..this is a paste that you put on the wound..but you must wear gloves.
just keeping my fingers crossed for you that the ones with sores you can treat... as for those with internal infections, theres really not much you can do but wait and keep the water fresh for them.
finding the cause too is another thing...

The second sick goldfish died suddenly yesterday- pretty much 2days of symptoms and it died. The first sick goldfish is doing well right now though, although it still has the growths, its very active right now so i'm pretty hopeful about this one.

As to the cause of this, i'm really miffed. The water quality conditions are good and have always been good, the fish all get along...The only thing i can think of that may have caused this is a few days before the fish went downhill there was a bubble pump in the tank which broke and caused a lot of load noise before i removed it- maybe the loud noise & vibrations the broken bubble pump gave off stressed the fish out?

 

[black angel]

no i dont see that being a cause..and as you havent added any new fish or plants or anything the only thing i can think of is maybe a cross contamination from the pond somehow..a net perhaps or even if you had your hand in the pond then the tank. something really insignificant may have been the trigger here.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

no i dont see that being a cause..and as you havent added any new fish or plants or anything the only thing i can think of is maybe a cross contamination from the pond somehow..a net perhaps or even if you had your hand in the pond then the tank. something really insignificant may have been the trigger here.

I'm really not sure. Its been a long time since i last bought any fish for any of the tanks or the pond (the last time i bought some fish i bought some harlequin tetras and WCMM's for one of the tanks back in january/febuary, but that tank is healthy and hasn't had any issues- the last time i bought goldfish was last year) & the last time i bought any plants was last year. The only thing i can think of is that about 3 weeks ago i had an old male guppy die in one of the tanks (he looked bloated before he died, more in a constipation sort of way than a dropsy kind of way) but at the time i didn't think that much of it because he was pretty old for a fancy guppy (just under 2years old) and had been showing his age for a while (hadn't taken much interest in mating with the females for a long time, which is something i have observed in old males before).

All the other guppys in the tank have been healthy before and since he died, however i have used the same net to fish out waste from the guppy tank and goldfish tank before the goldfish fell sick. But i'm now wondering if the old male guppy died of this disease and this it how it got introduced to the goldfish tank. After days of mulling over the possibilities of what caused this sickness in the goldfish tank, its really the only thing i can think of that may have caused it. The disease may have just been hanging around in the guppy tanks water and became active when the old male guppys immune system started to weaken with age?

On a positive note, the sick goldfish is continuing to look better- its maintaining good activity levels and its growths are looking a lot less sore, so "fingers crossed" i'm pretty hopeful about this one having a full recovery. Although i know its a bit risky i've decided to keep it in the main tank as i am treating the whole tank as a precautionary measure either way and its growths are no longer spewing out white stuff (and i think the goldfishes chances of recovery are probably better in the main tank as i think it would probably become stressed if it was separated from its tank mates and kept in a small tub- only if it starts turning down hill will i think i will separate it) and all the other goldfish right now are looking very healthy and happy .