Hello All,
New to posting on the forums and owning a fish pond. However have found posts on here very helpful whilst getting to grips with a pond we inherited with a house purchase.
Everything has been going ok so far, some upgrades to filtration system and food primarily have done wonders for the clarity of the pond.
I have hit my first major hurdle with fish health. We have a ~3000 litre pond stock with 20+ goldfish (we think as they are definitely not Koi).
The other day I noticed one of the fish darting around the surface whilst feeding before taking a sharp downward turn and swimming headfirst into the bottom of the pond. There was nothing obvious in his coloration to begin with as the fish are all a variation of black, white, gold, and combination of all 3. However after a few days its scales started turning black on each side. From reading online I thought this to be healing, but its swimming was a still erratic when feeding comparative to the others. No other fish was displaying this behaviour.
To be sure, I filled a 40 litre container to segregate and treat with anti bacterial and anti parasite for a week. Additionally this allowed me to feed some sinking feed so it could easily access some food, although it was still able to scoop feed from the surface by pure chance.
After the week the swimming was less erratic so I placed it back in the main pond. Today however it seems the blindness has gotten worse (more scar tissue over the eyes) and now a prominent lump from below its bottom jaw. I have added pictures.
I have no idea of the age of the fish in the pond, so could this be an age thing? or is there something more obvious to those in the know?
New to posting on the forums and owning a fish pond. However have found posts on here very helpful whilst getting to grips with a pond we inherited with a house purchase.
Everything has been going ok so far, some upgrades to filtration system and food primarily have done wonders for the clarity of the pond.
I have hit my first major hurdle with fish health. We have a ~3000 litre pond stock with 20+ goldfish (we think as they are definitely not Koi).
The other day I noticed one of the fish darting around the surface whilst feeding before taking a sharp downward turn and swimming headfirst into the bottom of the pond. There was nothing obvious in his coloration to begin with as the fish are all a variation of black, white, gold, and combination of all 3. However after a few days its scales started turning black on each side. From reading online I thought this to be healing, but its swimming was a still erratic when feeding comparative to the others. No other fish was displaying this behaviour.
To be sure, I filled a 40 litre container to segregate and treat with anti bacterial and anti parasite for a week. Additionally this allowed me to feed some sinking feed so it could easily access some food, although it was still able to scoop feed from the surface by pure chance.
After the week the swimming was less erratic so I placed it back in the main pond. Today however it seems the blindness has gotten worse (more scar tissue over the eyes) and now a prominent lump from below its bottom jaw. I have added pictures.
I have no idea of the age of the fish in the pond, so could this be an age thing? or is there something more obvious to those in the know?
