First of all, I wasn't replying to you -- I didn't ask you to do anything; I was merely suggesting to him that I didn't have the test results in front of me and that they were analyzed in depth in another thread which would make more sense for him to locate and look at during his own leisure because a great deal of discussion went down in that regard; I didn't want to get off topic here by going into that, except to say the results were on the neutral/safe side...
No, you didn't ask me anything, but test results are usually the first thing people ask for when there is a problem. Not that your test results are important for the advice I gave. But tests are either good or they're not good. Either there is ammonia and/or nitrite or there isn't.
If test results come back good and there's still something wrong with the water, what good are the test kits? I cannot do a full water change right now because I am in the tail spin of an extremely chronic case of bronchitis on top of flu.
The test rules out ammonia and nitrite poisoning. When trying to determine the nature of a problem, ruling things out that you can test for it the first step.
I don't know who to listen to -- people who say add salt to a FW/goldfish tank and those that say stay far away from this method; I could take one group's advice and lose the entire tank...
There are always more than one way to do things. What's important is that you don't pick and choose. If you're going to use salt, then follow the advice of the people who are suggesting it. People get in trouble when they start combining methods.
I don't see any physical signs, as I said (by that I mean the bumps/nodules on body and gills/fins) -- they're just doing the strange quick-rubbing against the gravel, and this started with just one of them but now the Oranda seems to be doing it.