gold gouramis has lump?

[shawn123]

hey my gold gouramis is sitting on the bottom of the tank, but i noticed he has a long lump or bump going down the middle of his body on both sides? anybody ever hear of anything like this....i hope he doesnt die (, i've had him the longest next to my redtail and he just got sick a week ago...

 

[shawn123]

nm he died

 

[jollysue]

I'm sorry shawn123. I just read your post. There was a hitch in signing in for a day. Some of us are still catching up. I'm really sorry about your fish.

What kind of gourami are a gold and a red tail? That's one thing that slowed my reading your post, I didn't recognize the name.

 

[shawn123]

it was a gold gourmis..., my rtbs i have had the longest now...hes seems pretty heathly, not sure what happend to my gouramis though

 

[jollysue]

I'm very ignorant about most fish, except the ones I have . I just got my first gourami. A little Honey. And that is a pun

I'm also not familiar with fish diseases much, except ich which I've done battle with. It was a win/lose. I also lost an oto to we think constipation. Most of my other losses were probably due to stress, which the constipation and ich could probably be put down to also.

I looked up the gold gourami. It's a very pretty fish. So you have two golds left? I got a Gold or Red Honey, I'm not sure which yet.

When you have a sick fish, you can post in the emergency forum and get a quicker reply and maybe an idea about what happend and what to do. I suppose it is still ok for you to post there with a concern for any other fish. Watch the join dates for at least a clue to experience. As with anything there are a few that confuse fact and opinion.

 

[evofish]

yes i had one with a big lump and she died a couple of weeks ago i know this might sound harsh but my mum cut her open and it was a tumor was how old was your gold 1?

 

[jollysue]

It's not harsh to me evofish. Dead is dead. How did your mum know what a tumor is?

 

[Irishlax627]

I had a Betta once and the tumor (at least I thought thats what it was) got so big it threw off the way it swam. I didnt want to kill it but i didnt want it to suffer. It eventually died but i didnt cut it open because I wouldn't know what to look for.

 

[jollysue]

The site "The Age of Aquariums" notes that the Honey is susceptible to dropsy which is characterized by a bloated abdomen and protrusion. I wondered also about constipation as the site mentions they have difficulty sometimes without veggies.