Sick Black Moor

[The Lumpfish Guy]

Clove Oil as mentioned is relatively easy once you have the clove oil.
You put the fish into a small container of tank water and add 1 drop of clove oil and stir it up. Wait a minute and add another drop. Continue to add 1 drop at a time and stir it up until the fish stops breathing. The fish is not dead at this point but is unconscious. Now you put the container of water (with fish in it) into the freezer and let it freeze. The fish will be asleep while this happens.

I use clove oil to euthanize sick fish.

Just an FYI you are supposed to dissolve clove oil in ethanol at 1:9 before you use it.

https://www.research.psu.edu/arp/anesthesia/fish-anesthesia.html

http://users.jyu.fi/~jpirhon/clove oil.htm

https://www.ccac.ca/Documents/Standards/Guidelines/Add_PDFs/Fish_Anesthetics.pdf

 

[Jessie J.]

There is another method but I think it would be really hard for a first-time goldfisher (putting him in the freezer without any water in a towel). And besides, it sounds like he's doing a bit better. Good luck!

 

[The Lumpfish Guy]

putting him in the freezer without any water in a towel

I would suggest that, that is not an appropriate method of euthanasia and will cause unnecessary pain for the fish.

 

[Cichlid4life]

Hi and welcome to the forum

Can you post a picture and a short 20 second video of the fish swimming funny?

I'm guessing there is an internal issue, possibly the swim bladder has ruptured and the fish is bent over in pain.

If the fish isn't eating and can't swim properly, the best thing to do is euthanize it.

I agree. Euthenization might be the best thing for him.

i would not do it because he is still eating for now, but the poor goldfish might have something that seems to be curable, but it seems at least three or four years old. That is to say that he has had a lot of time in his life to experience all sorts of things, so this could be more than one thing that we are looking for.

 

[Colin_T]

(putting him in the freezer without any water in a towel).

that's a pretty yucky way to kill a fish. The fish suffocates while it freezes, not nice.

Goldfish regularly go dormant when the temperature gets cold (3-5C) and if you freeze them in water they go dormant and then die when frozen solid. However, at this stage keep feeding it and keep doing water changes to see if it recovers.