nikkih
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
We have a fancy fantail/comet cross (we believe)female? goldfish.
She has developed red sores on her body and streaks in her fins which we believe to be a bacteria infection.
She had this before (over two years ago) and we discovered that there were issues with the water (very high nitrate) and we ended up putting her in a hospital tank with some medicine whilst we completely cleaned and redid the tank. She recovered in about 5 days.
This time, her water quality is perfect. But we do think she’s quite old. We’ve had her since my sister gave her and the tank to us back in Easter 2019 so 3.5 years. And my sis claimed she’d been alive for at least 5 years before that.
So I’m just about to add aquarium salt. And I thought maybe some melafix? I could move her to the small aquarium again and treat her with the blue stuff we used before but… I think this is old age and I don’t want to stress her out.
She’s the only fish in her 20US gallon tank (and always has been). I guess I could add the blue stuff in directly - but that would kill the bio in the filter wouldn’t it? How do I protect that? And if she was to pass - would the tank be usable after the blue stuff had been in it? It stains if I recall.
I obviously want to help my fish - we’re very attached to her. But if she’s old and I’m just making her uncomfortable- we’ll I don’t want to do that either.
Any advice on what measures I should take to save my fish or if this is just old age - I’d be very grateful.
She has developed red sores on her body and streaks in her fins which we believe to be a bacteria infection.
She had this before (over two years ago) and we discovered that there were issues with the water (very high nitrate) and we ended up putting her in a hospital tank with some medicine whilst we completely cleaned and redid the tank. She recovered in about 5 days.
This time, her water quality is perfect. But we do think she’s quite old. We’ve had her since my sister gave her and the tank to us back in Easter 2019 so 3.5 years. And my sis claimed she’d been alive for at least 5 years before that.
So I’m just about to add aquarium salt. And I thought maybe some melafix? I could move her to the small aquarium again and treat her with the blue stuff we used before but… I think this is old age and I don’t want to stress her out.
She’s the only fish in her 20US gallon tank (and always has been). I guess I could add the blue stuff in directly - but that would kill the bio in the filter wouldn’t it? How do I protect that? And if she was to pass - would the tank be usable after the blue stuff had been in it? It stains if I recall.
I obviously want to help my fish - we’re very attached to her. But if she’s old and I’m just making her uncomfortable- we’ll I don’t want to do that either.
Any advice on what measures I should take to save my fish or if this is just old age - I’d be very grateful.