White Balls Inside Goldfish Gills

KawaiiKingyo
  • #1
Guys. I am so tired of having sick fish. I've just had one weird thing after another.

Tank is 75 gallon, cycled. Ammonia & Nitrite :0 Nitrate: 10ppm. ph: 7.4 room temp. Three small/medium fancy telescope goldfish.

I have had problems before with nematodes in this tank, and while I was told they were harmless, there were just so many and I nuked the gravel, hoping to curb the population. They didn't die.

I had four telescopes, all had ich, and even though I was treating it, it wasn't getting better and three of them died. It's weird to me that they would have died from ich in just a few days, and weren't even covered that badly with spots.

I have one of those goldfish left. He never showed symptoms of ich. He had some redness on his chin, which to me looked like a mild bacterial infection. I've been treating with Melafix, both in the tank and a little in his gel food. The redness is almost gone now, and he is not acting sick at all. Fat and happy. So I added two new fish, which in hindsight, I shouldn't have done yet...

Because, I noticed today, that there are white balls inside his gills. This is not ich. These remind me of pimples. I have been researching this and I've found no definitive answer. I can't get a good picture because it's so hard to photograph the inside of his gills. There is nothing on the outside of his body except the very faint remainder of that redness I mentioned.

I did not examine the bodies of the other losses closely enough before I disposed of them. And I wish I could have checked inside their gills.

It looks similar to this, but you'll see nobody gave a definitive answer, and the fish died anyway:
White balls inside gills - any ideas?

But what do I do!? I assume I need to finish the melafix, which should be two more days.

Please help! I need this fish to live!
 

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CanadianJoeh
  • #2
let me do something research and get back
To you

I've never seen this disease before...

But check this out, maybe it will help Large, white ball in fish gills?
 

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MaximumRide14
  • #3
This is very strange. Do you have any pictures of your goldfish?
 
MaximumRide14
  • #5
There are pictures of someone else with the same issue here White balls inside gills - any ideas?
I know, I have seen it. I was wondering if we could also get a pic of the OPs fish so we could figure out if it was the same problem. She said that it only looked similar, so it could be different.
 
KawaiiKingyo
  • Thread Starter
  • #6
I know, I have seen it. I was wondering if we could also get a pic of the OPs fish so we could figure out if it was the same problem. She said that it only looked similar, so it could be different.
I'm having a horrible time trying to get a photo, but it looks exactly like the one in the link. My fish is a black butterfly telescope though.

I'm having a horrible time trying to get a photo, but it looks exactly like the one in the link. My fish is a black butterfly telescope though.
LFS suggested PrazI Pro, which I should be getting in the mail tomorrow.
 

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