How To Treat A Sick Goldfish
Diagnosing goldfish disease as early as possible is an important part of maintaining your aquarium. If you can’t readily identify a goldfish disease see your local vet, or pet store.
Fish absorb oxygen to live and they give off carbon dioxide as a waste product. Plants under the influence of daylight do the opposite so that what is poison to one gives life to the other. Therefore, the addition of plants to your aquarium will assist in keeping your goldfish healthy and free from disease.
Preventing disease is always easier than curing it, so by keeping your aquarium clean, feeding your fish the right amount, avoiding wide temperature fluctuations and performing partial water changes as necessary you will go a long way to keeping your fish healthy. However, no matter how well you maintain your tank, from time to time one or more of your goldfish may become ill or display signs of stress.
Some of the more common goldfish diseases are discussed in this article.
Anchor worms appear as a 1/4 to 3/8 inch piece of string with a forked tail. Large anchor worms can be easily seen. They appear as clear, brownish-red, or greenish-white strings. Once the anchor worms have buried themselves into the flesh of the fish open sores may appear on the skin. Anchor worms may be visible in the sores. Frequently this parasite is introduced into the fish tank from aquarium plants
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