Fantail goldfish losing scale and fins?

Question

We have had a fantail goldfish for 10 days now. Just over the weekend the tail is almost gone and losing gold scales on its body. Has anyone seen this before?

Answer 1

Oh, boy. You have a bonus situation. Your fish has fin rot AND dropsy. It may have come from the store with these diseases and it may be poor water quality and overcrowding that have caused this. This is going to be a tough one to treat, but it can be done. I'm betting this fish isn't in a 10 gallon tank. Goldfish need 10 gallons of water minimum per fish. If it is, great, if it isn't, it needs to be in one right away. You don't have time to cycle the water so get spring water from the store, not distilled water, spring water and fill up a hospital tank. If you can't afford a real aquarium, one of those 10 gallon plastic storage containers works great. While filtration is important, you, at least, need a good air pump because goldfish require a lot of air in the water. Perfect water conditions are mandatory to treat this. Perfect water quality should be 0 Ammonia, 0 nitrites, and 140 nitrates. Get a test kit so you can see what your water quality is. You need to get some ph stabilizer for goldfish; 7.0, some live beneficial bacteria and some Stress-Coat. Because the bacteria is live, it is kept in a refrigerator, so you will need to ask for it. Fin rot is from a bacterial infection. It needs to be treated with Maracyn or Maracyn 2. Dropsy is bacterial or viral, and as fin rot is bacterial, you have some sort of bacterial infection going on, so the Maracyn will treat this as well. Because this infection is also internal, you need to feed the fish medicated food such as Medi-Gold or Metro-Med. You can find all of these things at a pet store. It takes a long time and a lot of patience and dedication to nurse a sick fish back to health, but it can be done if you want to do it. Good luck.

Answer 2

Fin rot can cause scale loss in very bad cases, but it's rare. Usually lost scales means fighting or a bad skin infection which can come from several different bacteria. You certainly don't have dropsy. That's a common term for any one of a dozen or so internal infections that all cause fluid retention in the abdominal cavity, not scale loss. You can try treating with a good dose of both gram negative and gram positive antibiotics in the typical manner.

That is:

1: Big water change (50 - 60%)
2: remove the carbon from your filter or it will remove the medicine from your tank
3: increase the temperature to about 80 (yeah, even Goldfish)
4: Treat with the correct antibiotic or "shotgun" if you can't be sure what the exact bacteria is.
5: do water changes and monitor the ammonia levels throughout the treatment and until the good bacteria is reestablished.

Also be prepared to fight off a fungus infection as well, that's normal with skin ailments.

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Answer 4

Sounds like fin rot. There are some treatments that you can buy at the pet stores.

Unfortinately, if the tail is almost gone, its probably too late to treat. This is usually caused by stress. I am not sure how big your tank is but it should be at least 2 gallons for a goldfish. Have the pet store test the water from your tank.

Good Luck

Answer 5

Fin and tail rot. Brought on by stress caused by bacteria. Non iodized rock salt at 4 teaspoons per gallon and raise temp 82 degrees for 2 weeks then change water until salt is gone. Do it quick or they will die.

Answer 6

I think the fish more likely has a virus and fin rot, no dropsy. Viruses are common in goldfish and hard to cure. Whatever it has though I'd treat with maracyn plus or similar strong antibiotics.

Answer 7

Yes, I've seen it. It is caused by disease, some kind of fish virus. If you go to an aquarium store, they might be able to suggest some medicine you can put in the water. In my experience, once that starts happening, the fish is as good as dead. Sorry. If you get new fish, make sure the aquarium is totally scrubbed and sanitized.

Answer 8

Yes

Answer 9

sounds like fin rot hun, can get treatment from any pet shop, cheap an effective. good luck

Answer 10

my sister had this problem and hers died but I've herd you can get medicine to put in the water good look