As most of you probably know, one of my Oranda goldfish is called Jupiter. He's been sickly since the day I got him, a few weeks ago, mainly due to human mistakes on my part. I got him the day he was shipped to the pet store, and the stress really made him sick.
Jupiter's been in a 5.5 gallon tank. While this would never be adequate to house a goldfish long term, it's served as a good quarantine tank for Jupiter. Once he makes a full recovery, he'll be moved into my 20 long which I'm setting up tomorrow (It will have an already cycled filter, along with a new one.) with two other juvie orandas (Andy and Analie). However, that's not what we're talking about today! Jupiter is currently sick with dropsy, and he has a fungus covering his body. After a few days of having it, I started treating him for the fungus with Pimafix. Two days later, he got dropsy. So tonight, I did his first salt bath. A salt bath simply consists of putting aquarium salt into a bowl and dissolving it, and letting the fish "bathe" in it. This can help replenish electrolytes in the fish and it can really help illnesses such as dropsy. I thought Jupiter had died in his salt bath. He was floating on his side at the top of the water, and he wasn't moving his fins. So I deemed him dead. I went to tell my parents, and as they were coming in to bury him (I can't handle looking at dead fish) he was actually alive! This was amazing considering he was "dead" two minutes ago. I plan on doing salt bath treatments for the next few days. Hopefully he makes a full recovery and can be moved into the new 20 long.
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