Strange lumps on comets

I have an 82 gal tank dedicated to a variety of goldfish and plants.
There's some fancy goldfish in there (Orange cap Oranda, black Telescope,
celestial, Bubble eye - all about 4"-5" from nose to tip of tail) and some
plain old comet feeders that I've had for just over a year and a half and
are now anywhere from about 2" up to about 4".
Today, I added a few more small fancy goldfish. I know one is a red cap, a
ranchu and a lionhead, I believe, and one more I can't remember off hand,
and after floating the fish for a little while, I went to add them to the
tank, and noticed the biggest of the feeder comets has strange lumps on him.
I just noticed them right now, and he seems to be swimming around just fine,
as they all have always. There's a lump towards his head on its left side,
and on its right side, there almost looks like a hole or something. It's so
hard to explain... It's like a little bubble with some white stuff on it
that pokes out.
Does anyone have an idea of what I'm talking about? It just doesn't seem
normal, and also doesn't seem like something that has happened over night.
I think it is something that has happened over the last little while that I
just noticed now when I actually sat there looking at the fish for a
while...
I know it's just a feeder fish (that I think I paid about 11¢CAN for), but
I've had these feeders for so long, they're so big now and I don't want him
to die if there's something that can be done.
Thanks for any suggestions!

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One thing for sure is you are massively overstocked.
You should stock at 10 gallons per fancy goldfish, 20 for comets/commons
or 3 gallons per inch of fish, whichever is greater.

Does the comet look like he has fungus? What are your ammonia, nitrite, nitrate
and
PH levels?

"Geezer From The Freezer" wrote in message
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One thing for sure is you are massively overstocked.
You should stock at 10 gallons per fancy goldfish, 20 for comets/commons
or 3 gallons per inch of fish, whichever is greater.

I know this. I am in the process of slowly getting rid of the comets
(since I have 2 large tanks at my dad's work which have all my fish that are
not in this tank at home) but I do not bring more than about 5 or so fish to
the new tanks at a time because they tend to get stressed enough as it is
with transporting them. Every week or two, I switch tanks with a few fish,
as I have taken a liking to the fancy goldfish (Even though I love the
feeders) and I've been finding new homes for the goldfish with a friend who
has an outdoor pond of goldfish feeders, only right now, it's just too cold
to have his outdoor pond up and running.
With the fancy goldfish alone, they're not so big or over populated, it's
the comets that over populate.

Does the comet look like he has fungus? What are your ammonia, nitrite,
nitrate
and
PH levels?

All levels, as of yesterday, were perfect. About 4-5 weeks ago, though, I
had a ph problem, but I was able to fix it and ever since that one time,
it's been fine. I'm not sure what caused the ph to skyrocket, but after
bringing it down, I lost no fish. I often do random checks for levels,
obviously during water changes and all that, or if I think the water looks
funny or fish aren't acting normal. That one time a few weeks ago was the
only time I've ever had any problems with the ph for as long as I can
remember. I don't think it looks really like fungus... The one bump on the
one side just looks like a bump... It has no different colors, since I
thought it could be something like that hemorrhage problem I've seen before,
but I checked and there's no red on it at all. It's just a bump that looks
almost like a bruise, but there's no discolor. I also noticed this morning
that the original little white spot that looked like a little hole on the
other side from the strange bump is not white or any color now. It looks
like nothing but a small little bumpy hole? There was a little bit of white
before, but any signs of that are completely gone. No other fish have
anything, but I've taken that one fish out of the tank he was always in and
put him in a small 20gal I often use as a hospital tank last night.
He's still eating and swimming just fine. The plain bump looks about the
same, but the white hole bump is just now a hole bump without the white.

Too cold for a pond? Where are you, what temp?

"Geezer From The Freezer" wrote in message
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Too cold for a pond? Where are you, what temp?

Way too cold. It's only the beginning of spring, and as recent as a couple
weeks ago we had a dump of snow and cold temps. The ground has just
unthawed, yet at nights it still gets really cold.
I'm in Alberta, Canada. Only this week has it been unusally warm, about
15-20C or so during the day, but at night it still drops to around freezing,
anywhere from about -5C to 5C above. It's still a bit risky for an outdoor
pond to be up and running, but within a couple weeks or so, a month at the
most, it should be warm enough day and night for a pond to be up and
running.
Plus, with the weather we've been having the past couple years, it's so
unpredictable... We had, this year, record highs in December, I think it
was, then record lows in Jan and Feb. Last year we had a major storm in
July that left flooding and snow and hail everywhere. So, I guess, my
friend keeps his outdoor pond fish in a big pool in his basement until he's
100% sure it's more than warm enough for the fish to go outside, when
there's very little chance of the ground freezing, or starting to freeze.