Thanks so much for your advice Kimberly! Yes, FreddI (his name) is extremely athletic and cute. Scroll all the way down until the big picture appears. I have to get caught up on a few other threads, but I will try to remember to find someone with disease experience that specializes in goldfish. It's tissue and it has some blood supply going to it. I can't post pictures here because of copyright issues but am providing a link so you can take a look. To be sure, I just typed in oranda goldfish and started going thru some pictures of show fish. Totally normal) They look like fine tiny little blood vessels not the angry streaks I am used to seeing with hemmoragic septicema. Lastly, and probably most concerning to you, the red lines running through the caudal (He has them on the pelvic fins as well. If it is constantly being rubbed, that could explain why it is not coloring up. You see new white growth before it starts to color up. the metronidazole you used is similar to the nutrafurazone I use to heal noticeable fin rot. Fin tissue is delicate and it seems the bettas go through cycles of wearing and healing. Secondly, the white areas on his caudal, could be wear. I could try treatment with salt and nutrafurazone for the remainder of his life and it wouldn't change the fact that his caudal decided to split and there is nothing I can do about it. It is perfectly healthy tissue, no fin rot. The information I will provide comes from dealing with some heavily finned betta fish. I do not keep goldfish so I was trying to remember if we had a gold fish expert here and I came up blank. I was not alarmed by anything that I saw here. Could this be fin rot or environmental damage?

Near feeding time however, he's extremely athletic.Īnd recently, I've seen that he has a clean split on both of his left and right caudal fins, both of which are around the same size split. He also sits at the bottom of the tank sometimes, but he does not clamp his fins. I use Prime as a conditioner and I have a bunch of anubias and java ferns in the tank. I've tried Kanaplex + Metroplex for 2 weeks just in case it was a bacterial septicemia but the treatment did nothing. I've had these tank parameters ever since I was done the cycle and I change 50% of the water every week. He's the only fish in the tank ATM because I'm afraid to introduce any other goldfish if he's not healthy. It's been half a year or so since the cycle and he still has red streaks. I introduced him during a fish-in cycle and my tank has cycled already, but ever since then, he's had red streaks only in his caudal fins. My oranda has had red streaks for the longest time now. HI all, I'm new to the forums but have done fish keeping for a year or two. Is my water quality that bad? I thought it was ok, fish seem happy and I use Ammolock at water changes as well as conditioner I am beginning to think may Septicemia, but the fish symptoms are not matching exactly Not sure if I should have stuck with triple sulfur tho.Ĭurrently I am not sure what this fish has, or if I am treating it with the right product, any help or advice anyone can give would be greatly appreciated. This morning I changed water and medication to a broad sprectrum medication that treats white spot, fungal diseases and fin and tail rot. I have isolated the fish and treated both tanks with triple sulfur and salt. One other is showing red patches on its tail, but not the horrific looking angry red at the base of the tail. The goldfish lives in a 120 L tank with 3 other goldfish. I am water changing frequently recently as I am setting a new tank up and using cycled water from original tank. I did a water quality test the prevoius day checking nitrite, ammonia and Ph, results as follows: The fish seems not affected by it, it is swimming fine and still eating. However, the most disturbing symptom this fish is showing is at the base of its tail where its body has gone bright red, scales raised and blisters have formed. I am very new to this forum, and have a fantail goldfish that is showing signs of red streaking in its tail also.

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