So about 2 weeks ago my goldfish all went mental and started spawning with each other. This was a lot earlier than anticipated as we are still in cooler winter season changing into spring. We had a really warm weekend and that set them all off.
One little girl did not cope so well. I found her bottom sitting and quite listless in the morning. The others were still chasing my big white female though.
Apparently with the changing seasons, some fish have weaker immune system. That and eating up eggs or getting egg bound does not help.
I tried a number of things, fasting with sea salt (0.1%) , fasting with Epsom salt - after about 1 week, she still did not eat or poop.
Getting really worried I put her on Prazi and salt in case of fluke and metronidazole anti biotics in case it was internal infection. It has been almost 1 week on the anti biotics and will be getting her second dose of prazi this weekend. She had been bottom sitting so long she started getting sores :(
After the 2nd day on metronidazole, she started finally swimming around and expelling sand. And a lot of sand it was!! She also started swimming and finally eating. *phew*
I'll be completing a 7 day course of the metro and 3 courses of prazi. I can't wait till she's back to 100% and back in the pond with her friends :)
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