It's been a bad week for our beloved goldfish, Goldie... Goldie is our oldest
of our 3 left (we started with 6 almost 2 years ago). All was fine with it
until last Thursday, when it started to swim in spirals. A day later, it was
just laying on the bottom and kind of flopping around... It didn't look
good... Then it had an unfortunate event which had it out of the tank for
almost an hour. We thought it was dead, but when we went to wrap it up for
burial, it moved again! OMG! So, I got it in a "sick bucket" right away with
the air stone and it started breathing again. It's nearly darkened gills went
cherry red again, and it started moving more, but still floppy. We had to
leave town for almost two days, but put some food in the bucket. When we came
back, it was swimming normally, so I put it back in the tank. BUT, it doesn't
seem right.... It's eyes don't seem to look at you like the other two fish.
It seems kinda dopey when it moves... When I put food in before, Goldie was
always knocking the others out of the way to eat. Now it just kinda swims a
bit or just bumps against the side and then settles down. Not interested in
food... Can fish suffer from brain damage? Did the time out of the water do
serious eye damage and now it's blind? WHY was it swimming in spirals in the
first place? This is too odd.... The tank levels are pretty good...
nitrates/'trites at 0, little ammonia, ph at 6.8.... Last year we had bad
levels, but due to Queen Ingrid's advise, I now have pothos and philodendrons
suction cupped near the top of the water and they do fine at cleaning the
water, and the fish don't go food binging on them....

I wish there was something we could do for our fishy. Any happy advise for us,
or are Goldie's day numbered?