NOO!!!... My poor goldfishes...
sigh yeah this is an incident still in progress for me... Started like on Sunday, Saw my goldfishes were all acting weird and took a closer look... Their fins are all covered in Ick (white spots). Sigh... fishies especially goldfishes haven't been sick in a LONG time... So I grabbed the medication and added it into the tank...
Next day, nothing is happening and they seem more sick the before... Then I realised (OMG STUPID ME!!!) that I added the wrong medications... So I added in the proper one...
so now the tank is super loaded with medication...
Next day (tues), ICk seems to be starting to disapear... and I added in a new dose of meds after changing some water.
Yesterday (Weds), Ick is pretty much all gone... BUT the goldfishes aren't getting better... sigh... Medication was just way too strong for them apperently (I could have sworn that i used the same meds, on these same goldfishes last time...). Why i say that? Their finnage seems to have burned/decayed off... and they are getting skinnier, and Gasp... one of them died already...
Sigh... guess i should be more selective with the medication next time... sigh... But anyways all I could do now is hope the remaining 3 goldfishes somehow get strong again, but I fear this bout of illness and super strong meds might have left them "disabled/crippled". Their fins are either severly damaged now (crippled, can't use them). Tails are mostly gone (except for the Big guy), their skin is all wrinkly... Heck i think their eyes are scarred (blind??) GAH
BTW these goldfishes were the first fishes that I ever got (and were a gift from my Aunt, to let me start up my aquariums... oh yeah there was 8 of them originally, also a lucky number in Chinese, and in Feng-Shui), but yeah i've had them for 3-4 years now (and even though i don't like goldfishes as much as other fishes), they are still dear to me... sigh (gonna have to go buy new fishes when the epidemic is over... Hopefully there will be survivors, and need to make sure to pick up a weaker type of medication for future occurances)
Next day, nothing is happening and they seem more sick the before... Then I realised (OMG STUPID ME!!!) that I added the wrong medications... So I added in the proper one...
so now the tank is super loaded with medication...
Next day (tues), ICk seems to be starting to disapear... and I added in a new dose of meds after changing some water.
Yesterday (Weds), Ick is pretty much all gone... BUT the goldfishes aren't getting better... sigh... Medication was just way too strong for them apperently (I could have sworn that i used the same meds, on these same goldfishes last time...). Why i say that? Their finnage seems to have burned/decayed off... and they are getting skinnier, and Gasp... one of them died already...
Sigh... guess i should be more selective with the medication next time... sigh... But anyways all I could do now is hope the remaining 3 goldfishes somehow get strong again, but I fear this bout of illness and super strong meds might have left them "disabled/crippled". Their fins are either severly damaged now (crippled, can't use them). Tails are mostly gone (except for the Big guy), their skin is all wrinkly... Heck i think their eyes are scarred (blind??) GAH
BTW these goldfishes were the first fishes that I ever got (and were a gift from my Aunt, to let me start up my aquariums... oh yeah there was 8 of them originally, also a lucky number in Chinese, and in Feng-Shui), but yeah i've had them for 3-4 years now (and even though i don't like goldfishes as much as other fishes), they are still dear to me... sigh (gonna have to go buy new fishes when the epidemic is over... Hopefully there will be survivors, and need to make sure to pick up a weaker type of medication for future occurances)