Fish disease combo!! Please help....Need multiple cures!!?

Question

I have 3 goldfish in th same tank. I am VERY careful about overfeeding/underfeeding, after losing a goldfish to swim bladder. After replacing that fish, our oldest one is suffering these sicknesses:

Dropsy
Pop eye
Swim bladder (sinking)

We have a tablet we put in the fishtank, and it is said to prevent these deseases, but it is not working for that fish. He is also the oldest and it makes that worse because all we need is old age to make this worse! We have a larger tank that we are going to move him to. All we have involving fish cures are tablets that help the deseases a little and freshwater salt. We need more. If you know the cures to any of thoese deseases, please tell me, because I love my animals and I am hoping the last time that my fish had swim bladder will help me this time!! Thank you for any cures, or tips on handleing this!!

Answer 1

Dropsy is more a symptom than a disease and often so is pop eye, while swim bladder problems often relate to poor conditions and feeding.
First, with all the symptoms you are describing you need to make sure your water parameters are in check. Goldfish do poorly do to amount of waste they produce in aquariums with poor dissolved oxygen; make sure you have adequate circulation and filtration. If you have one bio filter, two is better. Change water with a gravel vacuum between treatments.
Goldfish also need a minimum kH of 80 ppm (160 is better), and the higher calcium levels that come with this, especially if increased properly so that it also affects redox too. The old standby of Baking soda is inadequate for this. Better methods include Wonder Shells (my preferred method for goldfish), aragonite, and calcium polyglucanate.
As for medications, make sure use try medications that have different bacterial effectiveness. Erythromycin (found in Maracyn) is relatively limited in the bacteria found in aquariums that it is effective against; many bacteria that cause pop-eye are positively affected by Erythromyacin. Also note that MOST bacterial fish diseases are gram negative, not gram positive and some medications such as Penicillin that are useful in humans are almost totally ineffective in fish but for the placebo effect.
Your best choice with the symptoms your fish are displaying (after correcting water parameters if out of balance) is a combination of Kanamycin and Nitrofurazone.
There are also organic treatments available, but they are not as strong, two popular ones are Pimafix and Melafix; Pimafix having more positive study results according to the company's own patent that makes them both.
Then finally feeding needs to be addressed, especially in reference to swim bladder problems. Make sure you feed a food high in quality aquatic fish proteins (amino acids) such as Whole Fish Meal (not just Fish Meal which is not complete) and Spirulina Algae. Be careful of foods with too much cereal as fish obtain there energy from fats, unlike humans. As a note TetraFin is a food you should stay away from for long term goldfish health.

In conclusion, improve your water quality (and hopefully Redox), change some water, use a medication that is best for fish' symptoms, improve feeding (if necessary)

For further more in depth articles about medications, please see this URL:
http://www.americanaquariumproducts.com/Aquarium_Medication.html
For more general aquarium information including links to info about kH, please see this URL:
http://www.americanaquariumproducts.com/Aquarium_Information.html

Answer 2

Dropsy is difficult, almost impossible to cure, and with swim bladder and pop eye to boot, I do not think your fish will survive :(

I find tablets are less effective. They are just sort of "global cures" that may or may not help with your specific problem. Maracyn or Maracyn-2 are the best medications, I have found.

Instead of treating the disease, you must look at the cause. Dropsy and Swimbladder are often caused by poor water conditions.

What size tank are you goldfish in? Fancy goldfish require 20 gallons of water EACH, and other types of goldfish like commons, comets and shubunkins really should go in ponds or 200-300gallon tanks.

Goldfish are poop machines. They eat a lot and they produce a lot of toxic ammonia. Small tanks are just not sufficient to keep healty goldfish. I can't presume to know what you keep your fish in right now, but it may that you need to upgrade to something larger, with better filtrations.

For the time being, keep up with weekly water changes and keep the water pristine.

Answer 3

hello i have many goldfish and i can say first try feeding frozen peas for the swim bladder problems and i hope your not using walmart tablets for the other problems. they dont work! you will need to get some meds from your local pet store.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Do a 90% water change, take the charcoal out of your media, and use MELA FIX per directions! do it NOW before it is too late!

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Answer 6

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