My fishy Gilbert is a Comet Goldfish and it has black spots on its body and i dont know what it is. dont answer unless u really know whats wrong. i had the fish for a bout 9 days
2007-07-24 05:02:43 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Fish
I see that youhave other fish in the tank as well and I assume they all look normal.
This could be one of a few things things, minor damage, ammonia burns or genetic color change.
Some goldfish develop colored areas randomly on thier bodies as they grow and age. This is a possibility for your fish, but I doubt it.
I'm going to rule out ammonia since the other fish aren;'t even clamping their fins or acting in any way like they are suffering from ammonia burns. To be safe, you might want to check your ammonia just to be sure though. It's possible these burns occured at the shop and are just now showing up as well.
Far more likely though you are seeing healing from damage done during handling. Netting the fish at the wholesaler, shipping the fish, into the shop tank, netting for you to take home, into your tank... that's lots of chances recently for him to have been scrapped, bumped and generally minorly mishandled. It's really quite common. The dark areas are signs of these minor little scrapes and things healing and should go away within a few days. If they don't go away in a few days, post another quesition with new pics. Keep these so you can post before and after pics, that will really help.
and thanks for including the pictures, that helps so very much in getting you a good answer!
best of luck with him
MM
2007-07-24 05:18:16 · answer #1 · answered by magicman116 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Edit: guess i was wrong, to me it looks like a color chang, but now i looked, thei are scales missing in front of the black color, so it could be the problem that the post below me has posted.
High ammonia comes with goldfish, so upgrade the filter or more water changes.
2007-07-24 12:10:19 · answer #2 · answered by Coral Reef Forum 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It looks like a color change. If I'm not mistaken goldfish may change colors 3-5 times in their life. The three colors they may get or change into are white, solid black, Grey/black, gold/orangeish.
2007-07-24 12:15:02 · answer #3 · answered by Ryan 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
there amonia burns its cause when theres to much amonia in the water do a 50% water change
2007-07-24 12:11:47 · answer #4 · answered by goldfish 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋