Send some good thoughts for Suerte

[IRescue452]

I got a sarasa comet tonight with anchor worms on the outside. I removed them by hand and the wounds aren't bleeding into the water so hopefully she does alright. I hope she lives up to her name and is lucky. I'll try for better pictures later, the ones I just took didn't turn out.

[Argranade]

Ohh good luck with her hope everything goes well tonight and glad you took her.

Ill check on those pics. :)

[Chilli]

Good thoughts headed your way for her!
I can't wait for pictures. :)

[IRescue452]

She's so hard to take pictures of because she's got white and my camera doesn't like this brand of batteries. In the first picture you see a dark spot on her where a worm was. The second picture is too bright to see. http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/bbflygirl/new2.jpg
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/bbflygirl/new1.jpg

[Chilli]

She's very pretty. :D Its hard to take pictures of Reich(my fantail) for some reason.. though I don't know why since he doesn't have much white at all.

(Sorry to be a bit off topic, but how can you tell if a goldfish is male or female? I've always called Reich a he, but I'm not certain.)

[IRescue452]

You tell mostly by vent shape http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/bbflygirl/goldfish.jpg But sometimes that's hard so you just have to wait until they come into season, the females will sometimes lay eggs in the tank with a male present or not and the males will have breeding tubercles (white dots) on their gills and fins.

[Chilli]

Thanks. :D
Later I'll transfer the little guy to a smaller tank temporary, so I can get a better look... he isn't being still for me right now^^... but when is he ever?

[Zippy]

Praying Suerte gets better soon.

[IRescue452]

Well, she's not bottom sitting anymore. She's definately suffering stress because the veins in her fins and tail are very obvious and that's a big sign of stress. I don't understand how a fish who lived in a 72 gallon tank with just one other fish in perfect water conditions could have gotten to a point where her health is going downhill from stress. I have a few more pictures. In one you can see two sores quite well. The one where she is turning around shows off her true colours well. http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/bbflygirl/surte1.jpg
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/bbflygirl/suerte2.jpg
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/bbflygirl/suerte3.jpg