Yesterday, I went to my local fish shop to look around, maybe get a few filter supplies. I hadn't been to this place in a while, but I remembered it pretty well. The way I remembered it was as a unique local aquarium store with healthy and happy fish. However, I think it has really gone downhill since then. There was at least one sick fish in every tank. It was a very sad sight to see. Especially when looking at the goldfish. About 95% of the goldfish had either ich or fin rot. I even saw one with a fish louse (a particularly bad, blood sucking parasite) on it! Today, I am going back there and I am going to rescue the fish with the louse on it, and see if I can save it. If I can, he or she will be going into an entirely separate aquarium as do not want to have even the slightest chance of infecting my other goldfish aquarium. I will also be purchasing two small calico ryukins from there who I could see were starting to develop ich. If I can cure them, they will be goldfish into a 40 gallon aquarium that is separate from all other tanks as well. Wish me luck!
Here are some examples of the diseases I was talking about (kinda gross and sad pictures):
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| Fin Rot |
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| Fish Lice |
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Ich - not to be confused with breeding stars
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Photo sources:
https://www.koisale.com/fish-lice.html
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