fish help wanted: save my fish!!

[goldfishboy]

something is wrong with my goldfish,

its staying at the bottom and only moves ocasionally, its not eating, and its only breathing with one side, but it seems to change sides.
i work at a garden center and the head of pets/fish said it was ammonia poisoning, but i cheaked online and the symtoms dont match the pet, i have an incling it may be sceptiscema, but that wouldnt explain why its just sitting at the bottom.

so if anyone has any further info please reply i really apreaciate it!!!

Hi goldfishboy and welcome

Im so sorry to hear about your goldfish . I dont know how to help, but I'll be sending prayers your way and hope it gets better soon.

[cimason]

i think it is called ick and it a disease that gold fish get and most the time it not cureable

[swayzeeboo]

Ick shows white bumps on their sides though...I would test the water. If there is an imbalance in something it is usually fairly easy to fix.
Hope this helps.

[vetboy]

i am sorry to tell you that i have had fish do the same thing and i've tried every thing and mine died sorry to tell you this but i think yours might die too.

Goldfish boy i suggest u start picking out a burial plot for him. same thing happened to a red wg polly i had it didnt have ick and it didnt infect my other fish 3 days later found him floting belly up.

[jubjubair]

Yeah, I'm SORRY.... My mom had goldfish and it did exactly what yours is doing...It might have a swimbladder disease- treatment- isolate it, add 1 tsp(teaspoon) of salt per gallon, And feed it one thawed out frozen peas. Or you goldfish my have flukes-tremotode worm-treatment- potassium permanganonate, or give it fluke tabs....
You might have ammonia in your tank. Or you might have high nitrates...

[chinparadise]

I used to have all kinds of fish and the very first thing you should do is go to a pet store and get ammonia cleaning sacs for the bottom of the aquarium. They look like little perferated bags containing what looks like white aquarium rock. I personally would sprinkly a little table salt over him kind of dusting him once a day. With a little bit I mean like a very short but sweet salt shower, you should be able to see it fall over him for a second. Table salt is a very cheap and quick cure for ick. If he has ick in his guills it would possibly explain his behavior. I personally used 1 Table spoon of table salt in my aquariums once a month to control disease, my fish thrived and reproduced even wonderfully. I have done this for goldfish, oscars, mollies, bettas, platys and guppies. Please let me know if you try this and how he is doing

[krazy4birds]

How very interesting chinparadise...I never heard of that either. I think I better start a notebook of all these things I am learning from this forum. I had fish when my kids were at home and sorry as it is....what you are describing usually meant they were going to pass on. If I were you and he is still alive when you read this...I would change his water and use the salt advice. Good Luck

[Lano]

Your fish has something wrong with his swim bladder that makes him sink down to the bottom.

[CheeriO]

http://petfish.net

you should post here.......it's a forum for all fish people.......i hope your fish will get well...

[fng_3887]

so what happen??? is your fishy ok. try doin a water test. also do a water change. do only 1/4 water change

[Levi]

Lano, it does sound like swim bladder disease. I have a goldfish that had that trouble. Someone suggested feeding frozen peas and believe it or not that did work wonders.