Donna
Aquarium Advice Regular
Hi, it seems only fate that after posting a thankyou for your help a year ago, i'm back concerned for one of my beloved fishies!
My daughter's fantail goldfish developed a lump last month, and seemed very depressed the day it showed up, she just sat on the bottom sulking.
there were no visible damage signs and the lump swelled under the scales, giving me the impression that it wasn't accidental damage etc. i suspected a paracite but none of the other fishies were infected. suspected water, but this seemed fine. my parameters were spot on (I can't give numbers, i get my tests done at my local aquarium shop coz every time i go to buy a water test kit, they've sold out, and other times i just can't afford it!) the lump pushed out from under her scales and went a bit white (a little fluffy after a few days), a course of melafix seemed to do the job and it eventually cleared up. huge relief.........today there are four little lumps on my daughters fish, and one more larger one! what's going on with my fishies? i'm worried, although the fish seems to be getting on fine (brave little sod!), still eating etc, i'm worried that five of these lumps might just be too much for the poor girl! again it's only affecting that one fish. is it possibly a defect in the fish? (all my other fish seem to have at least something defective about them! deformed fins etc Ellie is forever bragging that HER fish is the only perfect goldlie in there!)
will continue with melafix for now, but if anyone knows what this is and a quicker way to cure etc, i'm sure my little fish would very much appreciate the advice, as would I.
oh, tank details: 42lt tank, live plants, parameters fine. five goldies about 2-3 inches long now. nothing changed, food still the same, flakes for three days, Bloodworm and daphnia (half cube of each) on the forth day, then back to day one. nothing added recently. please feel free to ask if there's anything i missed.
My daughter's fantail goldfish developed a lump last month, and seemed very depressed the day it showed up, she just sat on the bottom sulking.
there were no visible damage signs and the lump swelled under the scales, giving me the impression that it wasn't accidental damage etc. i suspected a paracite but none of the other fishies were infected. suspected water, but this seemed fine. my parameters were spot on (I can't give numbers, i get my tests done at my local aquarium shop coz every time i go to buy a water test kit, they've sold out, and other times i just can't afford it!) the lump pushed out from under her scales and went a bit white (a little fluffy after a few days), a course of melafix seemed to do the job and it eventually cleared up. huge relief.........today there are four little lumps on my daughters fish, and one more larger one! what's going on with my fishies? i'm worried, although the fish seems to be getting on fine (brave little sod!), still eating etc, i'm worried that five of these lumps might just be too much for the poor girl! again it's only affecting that one fish. is it possibly a defect in the fish? (all my other fish seem to have at least something defective about them! deformed fins etc Ellie is forever bragging that HER fish is the only perfect goldlie in there!)
will continue with melafix for now, but if anyone knows what this is and a quicker way to cure etc, i'm sure my little fish would very much appreciate the advice, as would I.
oh, tank details: 42lt tank, live plants, parameters fine. five goldies about 2-3 inches long now. nothing changed, food still the same, flakes for three days, Bloodworm and daphnia (half cube of each) on the forth day, then back to day one. nothing added recently. please feel free to ask if there's anything i missed.