My gold fish are dying.yesterday 1 was floating near the surface with what looked like slimy white skin on

Question

i have them in a pond outside.i have had gold fish in there for 4 years with no problem untill the cat eat them these are new fish which i have had for a few weeks now

Answer 1

We need more information. What are the parameters? What size tank is he in? How many are there?

Answer 2

they could very well be floating to the top due to lack of oxygen. the white stuff on them could either be white spot of a fungus. go to your local petshop and you can pick up some treatment for both of these cures at a reasonable price, without this they will die!

good luck!

Answer 3

gold fish are the most high maintenance smallest useless expensive pets that do nothing..... they need air filters and water purifiers and all this c**p there tank needs to be cleaned water needs to be changed they need plants and rocks and **** in there tank and it all needs to be pulled apart and c**p takes ages to clean there ****... do u have all that? and do u do all that to look after them? if not they die, there high maintenance as... ive got some my idiot sister got them got the pump and some rocks and a tank and a few plants and thats it use to be 5 now theres only 2 left we use to look after them now none of us can be stuffed just waiting for the rest to die so i can throw all the **** out... they suck...

Answer 4

i think it might be ick. get treatment immediately and give them salt baths with aquarium salt.

Answer 5

sounds like bad water conditions did you drain and clean out the pond after the cat ate the fish if you did than it could very well be that the pond is cycling again .

your description of the dead one doesn't help due to the slim and loss of color is very common with dead fish

and treating fish in a pond is a very exspensive task would be better if you treated them in a quarinteen tank and if you have plants in the pond don't add salt it will kill the plants

try catching a couple of the fish and see if there is anything that appears to be wrong with them  

Answer 6

slimy thing is it round?  fish lice if is cotton like its white spot.  

quarantine the infected fish add rocksalt with methylene blue with good aeration and do daily water change of 10 percent.

kOi keeper & goldfish keeper.

Answer 7

yes they are dying..