My goldfish is sick....help!

Question

Ok, so my fish is sick, the second fish this month. My first fish was a comet goldfish, I've had him for almost 2 years, and then he developed some white spots on the top of his head. The person at the pet store told me it was fungus. I bought this medicine called Rid-Ich, bought him a separate aquarium, gave him the medicine according to instructions and did everything I could, but he ended up dying. Now it's about a month and a half later, and my little fantail goldfish has just developed a white spot on the top of his head. I don't want to use the Rid-Ich again because it didn't work for my other fish, is there another better medicine for this? I do everything right, and I just cleaned the aquarium. It's 30 gallons and houses only 3 goldfish, one almost an adult and two little ones. Everythings clean, filtered, I feed them properly. I don't know what else to do! Please help! Also, store I went to (and bought the fish from) is PetSmart, I thought it was a pretty good store. Only that one fish has the spot, and I'm scared he'll die. He's my favorite fish!

What is the best anti-fungal medicine?

Also, is there anything it could be other than fungus?

Answer 1

TRY ICH MEDICINE

Answer 2

Just bc it has a white spot, doesn't exactly mean it has ick. I thought mine did, but the spot turned out to be just a white spotch growing... you know? But if it isn't, then try some other fungus releif... Good Luck!!!

Answer 3

It may be hole in the head disease instead of ick.

Answer 4

could be fungus to me it sounds more like white spot, also known as ich.

either way i think methylene blue is fantastic fish medicine.

never fails for me and it works for ich and fungus so you've got nothing to loose.

good luck =]

Answer 5

you can try pima fix sold at petsmart it cures internal and external parasites such as fungus i think. good luck

Answer 6

http://www.goldfishinfo.com/identify.htm

this website has like a list of symptoms to kinda diagnose your fish, it seems really helpful. theres one description,i think the last one on the page, for a white growth on just the head. but theres all kinds of symptoms to go though on this site and a cure is shown for each disease

I hope this helps, and I hope your fish gets better!

Answer 7

white spots are easy to cure we use here rocksalt and mythylene blue with good aeration.  how often do you do water changes?  at 30 gallon for 3 goldfish minimun should be 20 to 30 percent weekly or 10 percent daily with filter.  If you do this I don't think your goldfish will be sick.

Answer 8

Gold fish are actually pretty dirty fish. If it looks like cotton it's a fungus. If it looks like something is burning away it could be ammonia burn. I would try just a different fungus medication. YOu could also try melafix which treats a broad spectrum of bacterial diseases. I would bring your water to be tested just to make sure your ammonia isn't too high. 30 gallons is actually to small for one gold fish.