Regular Member number20121 Posted November 28, 2010 Regular Member Share Posted November 28, 2010 I'm in the middle of a water change and noticed Hugo has something on her left gill cover. It looks like a cyst, clear-ish/slightly pink. It is maybe two millimeter long and one millimeter thick, I wouldn't even have noticed it if I hadn't seen her right from above and saw her face looking uneven. I'm not sure if it is an actual cyst or a scraping wound. I picked her up and held her in the water to get a closer look at it, and the surface of it is uneven. So it doesn't look like a blister really, from this angle it looked like a tiny scrape (on the driftwood maybe?). She acts completely normal, no flashing, nothing, eating well. No actual redness around the thing either, just pink-ish inside. So how do I tackle this? Just pristine water and salt? How much salt? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Cynders Posted November 28, 2010 Regular Member Share Posted November 28, 2010 Pristine water water first before any salt cause you don't want to bother any of the other fish with it. Does it look like a breeding star almost? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member number20121 Posted November 28, 2010 Author Regular Member Share Posted November 28, 2010 No, not like a breeding star at all. It reminds me of a blister, but almost as if it is broken a bit. Nothing oozing out though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Cynders Posted November 28, 2010 Regular Member Share Posted November 28, 2010 Try the pristine water first and then if it doesn't improve 0.1% salt. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member ashlee18 Posted November 28, 2010 Regular Member Share Posted November 28, 2010 I'm no help with goldfish yet, but hope Hugo feels better. She makes me want a single tail. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Captain Findus Goldfish Posted November 28, 2010 Regular Member Share Posted November 28, 2010 Gracie had a TINY little spot the other day on her side. It went away in a few days by itself. Just with clean water. You can salt if you see it getting red. It's just like we get a small spot from time to time I think. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member number20121 Posted November 28, 2010 Author Regular Member Share Posted November 28, 2010 (edited) I'm wondering if she got that from swimming through the bubble curtain at the back of the tank, because she always HAS to squeeze herself between the airline tube and the glass. She thinks it's funny, maybe she somehow scraped herself or irritated her face from having the tube rub over her face seven thousand times a day. You see the tiny dark spot in the middle of the big white part on her gill cover in my signature? It is right above that tiny dark spot, and smaller than that spot. Edited November 28, 2010 by Oerba Yun Fang 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member amynmitchell Posted November 28, 2010 Regular Member Share Posted November 28, 2010 That sounds like a likely possibility...silly fish. I would keep pristine water and keep an eye on it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member number20121 Posted November 29, 2010 Author Regular Member Share Posted November 29, 2010 I shall do this then. Water just got changed a few hours ago. Quite a lot as TAY DISTRACTED ME with with private messages and the water level dropped to 3.5 inches 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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