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Just noticed these bumps today on my shubunkin. Behaving normally. No changes in livestock for 6+months. Nothing on his tank mate. 75 gallon, Water normal: nitrate 10-25ppm, nitrite 0, hardness 300+ (texas rock water), KH 80-120, ph 7.6. Should I be worried?

For anyone wanting to know, I saved my fish from certain death. It was not a chloramine issue, as I said previously this is the background reading in all my tanks and tap and is perfectly normal. It was likely an internal bacterial or parasitic infection that took hold to the point of sepsis and kidney malfunction caused him to slowly start swelling. I quarantined him in a 20 gallon with 10 gallons of water. Treated every other day with an appropriate dose of kanaplex and general cure and 1/2 tsp per gallon of Epsom salt and heated to 80-81C with two airstones (full water replacement every two days). I only offered food that has been sprinkled or soaked in meds, and only very sparingly. Then twice a day, I gave him an Epsom salt bath to help reduce swelling, 1tbsp per gallon in a 5 gallon tank, also heated, with one air stone. Baths lasted 20 mins initially but he was still getting worse and swelling to the point where he started to pinecone/dropsy, so I upped them to 40 minutes, then 1 hour for the baths since as an adult goldfish, he was very tolerant of the high Epsom salt, I watched closely during these treatments to make sure there were no signs of distress. By day 4 he started to show hints of improvement and by day 5 swelling was significantly reduced. I continued this treatment out until day 10 to be 100% sure I had cured him before placing him back in his tank with his friends and is doing great! I got this advice from multiple websites and a youtube page called Lukes goldies about how to cure dropsy. It is really important to catch this as soon as possible and treat before the final pine-coning stage becomes obvious so you have time to cure it, if it is indeed being caused by a microbe, as the swelling and pressure on the organs can kill. Another note, the black spots I saw did multiply and expand, its this https://aquariumscience.org/index.php/10-10-black-spots/ an extremely common larval fluke and should go away over time now that he isn't severely immunocompromised but I will likely treat with straight prozipro in the main tank every few weeks to inhibit its lifecycle and clear it up.

I have a 6 year old Shubunkin in 75 gallon tank with 2 friends that has been very healthy until recently. A few weeks ago he has some buoyancy issues and would be listing to his left badly, he was treated with erythromycin, first just a recommended dose with soaking for a week, and when that didn't clear it up and did a regiment of recommended dosage every 36 hours for a week into the tank and that seemed to mostly clear it up, possibly a slight permeant minor left lilt but swims and eats normally. However he's been sitting on the bottom a lot more this week. I've also noticed in the last few weeks that he has these black areas at the base of his front left fin, and two on underside that are likely more recent, a few smaller black spots I think are really recent. There is also some minor irritation in that area from sitting on the bottom. This morning I can tell he is stressed, breathing slightly elevated but still excited to see me, I think his front half is slightly swollen and he now also has a 'bubble' coming out from the side of his gill plate and I'm extra worried. (see photos for bubble, black area, body condition) I dosed the med trio this morning (erythromycin, prazipro, ichx) and salt level 1 (1 tbsp per gallon) per the blog. Does anyone have any thoughts as to what could be ailing him or treatment advice? I'm thinking internal bacterial infection but possibly something else as well, is there a type of black external fungus/mold I can treat for? His tankmates seem fine. co-op test strips confirm my normal tank readings, nitrate between 25-50, nitrate 0, hardness of a rock 'cause texas water, kh 120-180, ph 7.6, 0 chlorine, ammonia reading as 0.5 (aka chloramine normal reading for my tank and tap). Tank gets 50-60% conditioned water change every 2 weeks.

Just added level 1 (1 tbsp per 3 gallons) of aquarium salt in my quarantine container per the blog, 1.5 tbsp for estimated 4.5 gallon of water, might up it to level 2 if he's still alive this afternoon/evening. Other note, I live in Texas so our water is like liquid rock as far as tds.

I have a 2-3 year old shubukin who started having slightly labored breathing and swim bladder/floating problems, these floating problem got significantly worse overnight while tank is being treated with med trio. I've just moved him to 5 gallon fresh clean water with a bubbler. There are no other outword signs of problems with this fish, however something is going on clearly in my main tank. Quick background: woke up yesterday to my smaller 1 year old sarasa dead, who also had not been showing signs of distress. 2 other older shubukins in tank have some minor fungus issues on their tail fins I've been battling off and on (they currently have a little on their fins) and I did notice one of them showing flashing/irritation behavior. Nothing has been added to this tank in over a year. It's a 75 gallon planted, over filtered 2 hobs. The parameters at time of the sarasa dying where essentially ph 7.6, ammonia background, nitrite zero, nitrates 80 ( a bit high, was already setup for a water change). I did a 60-70% water change twice yesterday, 12 hours apart. Parameters are now same with nitrates around 10 ish. I started the med trio recommended dose for quarantining/when you don't know what's wrong for the main tank after the second water change because I was worried, intending to let that one dose of meds sit for a week, but have now moved the distressed fish. Im scared I'm going to lose another fish. He will swim around some, but I've put some things in this quarantine container so he can wedge himself and not be fighting to swim/expend energy from the flow of the bubbler. Hes wedging himself in upside down which is a bad sign. Do I treat this quarantine setup with meds? If so just erythromycin? Is there anything else I can do?