On dial up and not about to fooll with rar, but each and evey time any
of my comets got black on them it was form water paramters being out.
I bought some nice red and white feeders and a lot of them had some
unique black markings, one in particular had its dorsal fine striped
with every other spine and area between red, then white then
black,,,,and some looked like checker boards.........The black all
went away from all those fish within 3 weeks once I got them in good
water. I had been overly busy later on, and my water wa fair but not
good, and low and behold their black color was once again coming back
on them.......got my water to proper parameter and black once again
went away......The last batch of feeders I bought about 10 days ago
also had lolts of them with black marks, which most have dissapeared
now since they are being kept in decent conditions...

Then again some say its common coloration in some GF.....

On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 17:19:12 GMT, Cyril The Squirrel
wrote:

===In article ,
says...
=== I have noticed a problem with a Goldfish for a while now. I noticed
=== that he had black marks on his gill covers and down both sides, just in
=== certain areas, not all over. This was noticed over a year ago when my
=== fish returned from my brothers pond, I'd moved house and had to wait to
=== build my pond. These marks did not get any worse and possibly reduced
=== slightly until 2 to 3 weeks ago.
===
=== The fish started coming to the surface and going straight back down,
=== bubbles would then come to the surface.
=== snip
===
===I said I would update when anything changed so here goes:
===
===I've done a scrape and checked it and didn't find too much wrong which I
===found hard to beleive.
===
===I've taken some photo's of the fish and uploaded them to
===http://www.sendmefile.com/0012213
===the file is 2.51mb in size and contains 8 photographs of the fish
===showing it's scale colouration, lip colouration and now swelling.
===
===I still have no idea what the problem is but would appreciate any
===advice.
===
===The file is a .rar file.


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