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Help! Poorly goldfish

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Ekphrasis · 21/06/2018 18:00

My sons goldfish suddenly has a patch of raise scales on its size with red bits beneath. Any ideas?! Not looked properly yet as doing doing dinner/ cluster feeding baby.

It's 3 and shares a tank with a large shubumpkin (sp?!)

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Ekphrasis · 21/06/2018 18:02

It looks like a lump beneath the skin pushing scales up. Otherwise it's swimming about asking for food as usual.

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bunnygeek · 22/06/2018 15:02

Lumps can be a number of things, including bacterial infections, fungus and also tumours.

Are you able to isolate this Goldie? You could try treating with antibacterial mediation.

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Ekphrasis · 22/06/2018 15:58

I'm not sure I can; also we are going 2 hrs down south for the day tomorrow :( he's perky but I think the eye on that side is swelling now. Gah.

Should I change water and add salt as a stop gap?

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bunnygeek · 22/06/2018 16:45

A partial water change is always a good move. Not personally convinced aquarium salt has much of anything when it comes to healing.

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Ekphrasis · 22/06/2018 18:31

I'm guessing the tank is too cramped. The shubumpkin has been our growing the goldfish for some time.

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toomuchhappyland · 16/10/2018 22:24

How many litres is the tank? It’s probably far too small. Ordinary goldfish and shubunkins are pond fish really.