is growth on goldfish normal?

[Rodney]

My goldfish are recovering from what I diagnosed as a bacterial infection
(did water changes and medicated with Tetracycline (recommended by LFS)),
but now there's some growth from where the red spots were before. Is this
normal? I took a closer look at the growth (kinda looks like a strand of
hair) and was wondering if i should try and remove it or leave it alone.
The fish are very active and don't seem bothered by the growth.

[Mel]

Sounds like anchor worm. Have a look at the picture at the top left on this
page -
http://users.megapathdsl.net/~solo/puregold/disease/bugspics.htm#lernea and
see if this is what the strands looks like. If this is what you are dealing
with then you can pull the worms out with tweezers and treat with a med
which kills any lurking elsewhere in the tank.The meds which treat this are
pretty strong though and might kill off your bio-bugs too so test your water
regularly throughout and after treatment.
Mel.


"Rodney" > wrote in message
...
> My goldfish are recovering from what I diagnosed as a bacterial infection
> (did water changes and medicated with Tetracycline (recommended by LFS)),
> but now there's some growth from where the red spots were before. Is this
> normal? I took a closer look at the growth (kinda looks like a strand of
> hair) and was wondering if i should try and remove it or leave it alone.
> The fish are very active and don't seem bothered by the growth.
>
>

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red spot + "hair" sounds like either anchor worm OR columnaris.
http://users.megapathdsl.net/~solo/puregold/disease/disease.htm
Ingrid

"Rodney" > wrote:

>My goldfish are recovering from what I diagnosed as a bacterial infection
>(did water changes and medicated with Tetracycline (recommended by LFS)),
>but now there's some growth from where the red spots were before. Is this
>normal? I took a closer look at the growth (kinda looks like a strand of
>hair) and was wondering if i should try and remove it or leave it alone.
>The fish are very active and don't seem bothered by the growth.
>



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[Rodney]

I successfully medicated my goldfish for whatever it was that they had, but
now my water has a pinkish color to it. Any ideas as to why? I used
tetracycline for medication and it initially turned my water color yellow,
but turned back to clear after I ran it through carbon. I've been running
the pinkish water through carbon and doing 25% every other day water change.
I did a 50% water change over the weekend and changed out the carbon, but
the pink color is still there.

[Geezer From The Freezer]

Rodney wrote:
>
> I successfully medicated my goldfish for whatever it was that they had, but
> now my water has a pinkish color to it. Any ideas as to why? I used
> tetracycline for medication and it initially turned my water color yellow,
> but turned back to clear after I ran it through carbon. I've been running
> the pinkish water through carbon and doing 25% every other day water change.
> I did a 50% water change over the weekend and changed out the carbon, but
> the pink color is still there.

Did you change all the carbons? If so, you may have thrown your tank
back into cycle