I removed this goldfish from a not crowded 500 gallon pond last summer due to his lump. (I'm in north Texas which gets pretty hot btw) He was the only fish with a bump. All of my ponds are filtered except the tiny 100 gallon plant pond, I just clean it up once or twice a year. Water quality is good, I use no chemicals, bacteria is natural nitrosomonas and nitrobacter, there are snails in some of them. Probably snails where this fish came from. But not a lot. I don't buy trap doors
I put him in an aquarium by himself, then a 55, now he is in a 29.
I read the yellow worm post at the time I brought him in, but have never used a needle to look for a trematode. There probably were some pond snails in that pond.
I need his aquarium. So I have a tiny pond safe enough in the winter, and he would be the only goldfish in it. But there are tons of pond snails, it's my plant rearing pond.
I can probe for a trematode and move him to a 10 gallon to recover
I can go get clove oil and put him down.
And I saw a fish in my 700 gallon pond with a similar bump. I can't catch it right now. Advice?
I put him in an aquarium by himself, then a 55, now he is in a 29.
I read the yellow worm post at the time I brought him in, but have never used a needle to look for a trematode. There probably were some pond snails in that pond.
I need his aquarium. So I have a tiny pond safe enough in the winter, and he would be the only goldfish in it. But there are tons of pond snails, it's my plant rearing pond.
I can probe for a trematode and move him to a 10 gallon to recover
I can go get clove oil and put him down.
And I saw a fish in my 700 gallon pond with a similar bump. I can't catch it right now. Advice?
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