It is sad and frustrating to see your goldfish dying after taking care of it for months.
Some will say that it is easier to just replace the goldfish with a new one but it is not as easy as it sounds once you start caring for it - looking at it everyday and treating it like part of your family.
When your goldfish is dying, you can take these steps and try to improve its health.
Do these early so that you can save other healthy goldfish from dying as well.
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Maintain high water quality Water quality is important for the fish to get back healthy.
Make sure that you replace the water in your fishbowl with the new water frequently.
You'll have to make sure that the temperature level is right and chlorine amount in the water is taken care of.
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Quarantine sick goldfish from healthy ones Your sick goldfish should be isolated from the remaining healthy goldfish.
What you can do is remove the sick gold fish from the crowd (if you have more than one goldfish in the fish tank) and put it in a separate fishbowl.
You'll monitor the progress of the health of this goldfish from this fishbowl.
You'll also want to make sure that the other fish in the tank stay healthy.
So, make sure that the water in this tank is also in superb condition.
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Start the treatment After isolating the sick goldfish from the other goldfish, you want to see the progress of its health.
If the health of this goldfish is improving, then you'll just maintain the water quality in the fishbowl until the goldfish is ready to join its crowd.
If the goldfish still shows the sign of sickness, put small amount of medicine bit by bit and change half of its fishbowl water everyday.
Make sure that the water that you're replacing is bacteria free.
If you are not sure if your water is bacteria free, use drinking water instead.
The tips above can be practiced everyday not just to save your dying goldfish, but also to maintain the health of other goldfish in the fish tank.
Give it a try for your healthy goldfish.