Calling all fish experts! Please help me with my poorly fish.

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Our blackmoor goldfish is really rather poorly. I think she has finrot which she caught off our (orange) goldfish. The orange one had that cotton wool type fungus (on scars from when in our cat's mouth ) and then had the finrot. Had a daily dose of medication for ages and is now finally better. But now the blackmoor has terrible finrot. Her back tails are pale and in shreds and her eyes are clouded over making her look blind. She spends all her time wiggling round in the corner of the tank by the pump (apart from feeding time). I feel so sorry for her.

We have a new finrot medicine which is just one dose which we gave two days ago but she does not seem any better yet.
When do you think we could expect to see an improvement? Is she a goner?
I'm usually cupcakes btw.

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I would have expected improvement by now, but if the fish is still alive thats a plus. Are you doing lots of water changes?

oh and it is surprising that then can recover even when they have virtually no fins left. I had a beta that survieved with none.

the water was changed just before we gave the medicine. The other fish is perfectly happy. Since I wrote my first post she has not come out of the corner - she is just 'swimming' away going nowhere. The eyes really worry me too.
Like you said, at least she's not dead.
Did the fins grow back on yours?

One of my fish had this, the other fish bullied it and ate one of it's eyes but it still survived the fin rot. I did buy one of those nets in the end. The ones that you use of your breeding fish.
It kept the fish seperate and helped the poorly one get better quicker.

i put a bit of salt , on my mothers instruction, into our fish tank and it did the trick. I'd google it first though just incase it was a coincidence.

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It ate the other one's eye???

Did the surviving eye get better?

how much? as much as you'd sprinkle on fish and chips?

yes, very slowly. salt can help with certain conditions. Do you have filtration? If you don't I'd leave it.

It was sooo cute with one eye though!

Surviving eye was fine but fish normally kill the weak ones and with it's fin rot they took a real dislike to him, hence the breeding net.

It's awful to see fish when they're ill because your very limited to what you can do to help.

She is still flailing about in the corner.

Did you see it attacking the ill one's eye or was the eye just missing one morning?

A pinch.

Just woke up one morning and it had gone.
I hadn't seen it being picked on but having kept fish for years and my dad being a tad obsessive I knew that it had been bullied because of the fin rot.

We've kept goldfish and other cold water fish for years and I mean 10+ years.
They can survive all sorts but depends on alot of things.

I think it will be a while before the fin rot disappears but it sounds as though it could be something else if it's just lolling around.

she's very active, not lolling at all. But being active in one corner and not making any progress round the tank.

Well thats a good sign.

Do you have other fish in the tank?

yes, the goldfish who was ill originally.
Still flailing in same corner. Back tails even worse today.
dh has to go to pet shop this pm so is going to ask for (more) advice.

Mine have nearly died sevearal times from this, but survived! Try the aquatic salt, as a tonic all the time.

Oh, I always put a trail of 'stress coat' in when cleaned out. This protects them from bugs enormously!