Tristan wrote:
I am sure Zebulon aka Carol will be alaong shortly to give you an
answer which in all reality will be the wrong answer as she is so
adapt at ad libbing lies and making them sound like she knows what she
is talking about. I suggest taking this question to a web based forum
and get answers from foks into fish keeping than folks into usenet
trolling and wars. Try koiphen.com or koishack.com for the best and
most trustworthy answers. .......Do not trust CArol aka Zebulon's
answers ass she has been known to give erroneouos info that has cost
folks their fishes life before.....She only does none thing right and
that is lie.

On 14 Jan 2007 06:31:46 -0800, "jess" wrote:

I am new to fishkeeping and am not sure what to do for the best. I
noticed this morning that my less than a year old comet, Dale, is
swollen mainly on the left side above the pelvic fin but perhaps a bit
on the right side also though not as much. He is sitting at the bottom
of the tank but will come up and swim around if I lift the lid then
when he realises nothing much is going to happen he goes back down
again. He is still eating and the water quality is within ok limits.
I have only had him and his tank mate, another comet, for 11 days so
cannot believe something has gone wrong already! Dale has always been
the slightly smaller of the two and the quieter and doesn't eat as much
but seemed perfectly healthy until this morning. I don't see any
raised scales or gasping or areas of soreness so what do you think it
could be and if it is possibly the start of a bacterial infection
should I start treatment straight away just in case. If so what to do
and should I isolate him or leave in tank to treat.



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