The prognosis for the fish is not good. I would get it out of the pond and
into isolation, since if it dies in the pond, the other fish could
cannibalize it and get the bacteria that is causing the dropsy. Do a Google
for dropsy with Dr. Solo as author. There is a web site Puregold that has a
treatment that has worked, but you would want the fish isolated for the
treatment.
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"Martha Gillier" wrote in message
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Dear Ponders;
Yesterday my large (7") blonde goldfish did not come around to feed when I
tossed some floating food pellets in. I went looking for it, moved the
floating plants around and found it all alone near the surface in the
shallows.
It was not socializing with the other goldfish, shubunkins and small koi.
It
did not look very healthy.
-bloated,
-scales were sticking out like a pinecone at the belly undersection and
some
looked like they had fallen off.
-it is a blonde and it looked like it was bleeding or hemeroging on the
underside
-lethargic ( allowing me to net it)
-not eating

I looked it up on the Koivet.com Doc Johnson.
The symptoms sound like "Dropsey" and the prognosis sound grim!!! :(
My concern is for this fish but also for the health of my other fish.
Has anyone had experience with this? Should I remove? Isolate? Put it out
of
misery?
Thanks,
Martha

PS. I have not tested the water but we did have a lot of rain in SW
Ontario
this week and there is a bloom of algea going on in the pond 2000gal.