First and foremost, I need an experienced opinion on one of my goldfish. He's been acting weird for a few days. His symptoms:
Not eating (completely ignores food during feedings)
Swimming along the wall in an up and down movement (he does not scrap his body against the glass, but does swim up and down with his nose pushing against the glass at times)
More frequent mouth aspiration
Flattened back fins (he keeps the back ones flattened when he swims, which I know healthy goldfish do when they propel through the water, but they usually unflatten them after stopping in one spot. He unflatten them after stopping in one spot, but then he flattens them again.)
Unstable swimming (at times, he seems to struggle to swim forward. I think this problem may be related to his almost constantly flattened fins.)
Inhaling water at the surface (the longest I've seen him stay up and continually have mouth aspiration is at least more than 5 seconds.)
To the best of my visual ability, I've looked at the fish and he has absolutely no physical defects. No cotton like spores, white spots, cloudy eyes, fallen off scales, bloody gills, open sores, rotting fins, bloating, etc.
I don't know what to do. I'm an amateur fish caretaker after my father bought fish yet he himself doesn't even know the proper credentials needed to keep fish healthy. So the burden has fallen on me.
Not eating (completely ignores food during feedings)
Swimming along the wall in an up and down movement (he does not scrap his body against the glass, but does swim up and down with his nose pushing against the glass at times)
More frequent mouth aspiration
Flattened back fins (he keeps the back ones flattened when he swims, which I know healthy goldfish do when they propel through the water, but they usually unflatten them after stopping in one spot. He unflatten them after stopping in one spot, but then he flattens them again.)
Unstable swimming (at times, he seems to struggle to swim forward. I think this problem may be related to his almost constantly flattened fins.)
Inhaling water at the surface (the longest I've seen him stay up and continually have mouth aspiration is at least more than 5 seconds.)
To the best of my visual ability, I've looked at the fish and he has absolutely no physical defects. No cotton like spores, white spots, cloudy eyes, fallen off scales, bloody gills, open sores, rotting fins, bloating, etc.
I don't know what to do. I'm an amateur fish caretaker after my father bought fish yet he himself doesn't even know the proper credentials needed to keep fish healthy. So the burden has fallen on me.