Comments on: A Closer Look at Black Spot Disease – Part 1 (Ammonia)

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:25:26 +0000

after noticing my goldfish acting very strange, 1 flipped itself out of the tank and 1 buried its head into a rock, i had no idea why it seemed my fish were trying to commit suicide!! they looked very poorly, frayed up fins and some lying still at the bottom.. i searched the net and after reading your write up, i discovered that my aquarium had high ammonia levels which was burning the fishs fins and hurting them so much that they were trying to free themselves from the polluted water!! immediately after reading this, i did a full water change, bought a new larger filter adequate for the tank size and even purchased a plant as i figured it would allow more oxygen to enter the water.. one week later and thank goodness they look better!! the fish with the most damage, its fins have now turned black, a positive sign of healing and they are all eating well and remain active.. i am now keeping a close eye on them all and am going to invest in an ammonia tester and an aquarium vacuum which cleans the gravel as i now know the high ammonia levels were caused from build up of the fishs waste.. i cant thank you enough.. if people were more clued up on how to look after fish, when they are purchased from stores it may put a stop to alot of pain and suffering the fish have had to encounter x x

By: bill

bill — Sat, 22 May 2010 21:03:07 +0000

this atrical is very helpful i was looking up goldfish diseasea for my
mother when i ran across this one it explaned everything i needed to know..
thank you and keep up the great work..

By: Graham Robinson

Graham Robinson — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:21:24 +0000

Hi,
My 5 year old goldish has deveoped a black top lip, like a mousetach, otherwise it seems very healthy, can any one tell me what this is please.
Best Regards,
Graham.

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:14:55 +0000

i have two goldfish. They both have red color lines(seem as if blood has come under the topmost layer of skin in the form of lines and not spot) around there mouth. The smaller one is the first one to have it around its mouth. The other has got only on one side.
Plz help and suggest some measure.

By: stephen

stephen — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:03:15 +0000

hi my fish was yellow but now he is half black someone help me

By: Amanda Smith

Amanda Smith — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:17:20 +0000

Are there any goldfish diseases surrounded an eye of the fish. My goldfish che-che has one black eye and the other is normal. This happened about a week ago, and I dont know what caused this to have happened. Can you please, let know me know if theres info about this and I how I can get him well again. Thank you so much. Amanda

By: kat

kat — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:37:09 +0000

i have two goldfish, one of them is new, the other i have had for one year, i put them in the same water thing after making sure my new fish was not sick by keeping them seperate for a week.
Now my first goldfish(after they have been in the same tank for like, two weeks)is kinda fat by her abdomine(pregnant maybe?)
and she was just orange and white
then the other fish , the new one, stared getting kinda dark under its left front flipper thingy
now its black on all its tails\flippers, and it almost looks like its black from the inside
im scared that my fish might both die cuz in less than two hours my old fish has gotten a black spot on its tail fin
and when i woke yesterday morning they were both bleeding, even tho i am feeding them regularly
they were both bleeding on their mouths and my new one (whose name is King)is bleeding under its mouth and under one of its from fins
please please email some kind of info at katluvr12@gmail.com
please tell me any suggestions u might have cuz im desperate

By: julia

julia — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:17:08 +0000

I did have high ammonia and did a water change as well as treat for ammonia. One week later, my weakest goldfish (purchased over one year ago as a tiny feeder fish) has the black symptoms and is lying upside down and struggling to breath.

Is there anything to save this fish? I separated him into a bowl and addes some stresscoat. What should I do to save him?

By: Bamboo Avenger

Bamboo Avenger — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:15:48 +0000

This is a great article that should be promoted much more. Unfortunately, this characteristic of goldfish is not well known to people and surprisingly a large amount pet store keepers.