Re: A few fancy goldfish queries
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Miss Pennyapple wrote:
Hi Rachy, glad your panda is back to normal now.
Interesting what you said about the slimecoat and it's appearance as tiny wee hairs - I meant to say this earlier to you, but over Christmas when my fish were obviously being attacked by parasites, my black moor developed these tiny little 'hairs' all over him. I couldn't figure out what it was, since I knew it couldn't be anchor worm, and couldn't find anything on the net to help. So I assumed it was slimecoat, and after a week or so of salt treatment he completely healed. It was so strange though - looked like he was growing a coat!!
Hey Laura,
Yeah Frances mentioned you'd spoke to her about a similar problem to mine, weird isn't it?
I wouldn't describe the marks on Gilly as 'hairs', they looked like really tiny worms all over her fins, scales, body, head, eyes etc, I described them to Frances as planaria worms! Some were stuck out, some were 'embedded' in her dorsal fin. Very strange.
After exhaustive research, I finally concluded they were strands of mucus caused by an irritation, and the only irritant I could think of was the extra Stress Coat I was adding - I could have actually overdosed as I was pouring out the doses using one of the API test tubes, so it was really guess work :S
Will never be guessing again as I now have a pipette to accurately measure out the correct dosage of water conditioner.
Has your moor recovered now from his 'hairs'?
Juwel Rio 180 - female black moor & female panda moor
Fluval Roma 125 - male red fantail & female red cap oranda
Eheim 2213 classic canister filter on each tank