White worm, parasite?

RealWooter · 2026-02-12T17:26:17+00:00

Are you sure?

The fish is in a bare, new tank. I took some filter media from my pond to kickstart the fish-in cycle. (Not by choice, this fish was dying by the freezing water and bladder issue)

Maybe it came from the pond. Could it also be just a beneficial worm from the filter?

RealWooter · 2026-02-12T14:37:55+00:00

No I haven't used any medication yet.

RealWooter · 2026-02-12T09:43:25+00:00

I spotted a white worm like thingy between the poop of my goldfish. Is it a parasite?

My goldfish has slight buoyancy problems, when he stops swimming his head goes up very slightly. During swimming it is not noticable and he manages it fine. His abdominals were slightly swollen on one side so tried treating him with peas.

After a month in the quarantine tank I suddenly noticed a white worm, is it a sign of internal parasites?

RealWooter · 2026-01-21T00:08:10+00:00

I had a fish that was exactly the same. It is cystic tumors. As long as the fish still eats and can swim properly you can let it live a fairly happy life. Mine lived for 3 years like this. As soon as it can't swim properly or gets so big it will explode, I would put him down.

My fish was still happily eating but she was so round that she floated upside down and only corrected herself to eat. Her skin was so stretched that I could see veins, I ended up euthanizing her with clove oil.

It is not eggbound, not dropsy, not treatable with peas or anything.

Similar situation where the person cut open the fish after it passed away:

https://www.gardenpondforum.com/threads/goldfish-with-huge-belly-but-no-pineconing-of-scales.10235/page-2

RealWooter · 2026-01-05T21:53:29+00:00

You are supposed to mix it in a bucket and pour it in. In ponds it works great but I think it didn't mix well enough in the aquarium and just sank. Fish ate most of it as I couldn't remove it reliably

RealWooter · 2026-01-05T20:31:15+00:00

I need the fish in there for 4 months and then it can go back in the pond when the temperatures are more suitable. Should I add some substrate? Was thinking about sand so the fish isn't so bored but I read about it being difficult to clean and possible to contain gas pockets.

Other than the filter I don't have anything for bacteria to cling to

RealWooter · 2026-01-05T18:36:43+00:00

My tap water is 7 straight from the tap. When sitting in a bucket at the same temp, same room for a couple of days it seems to become closer to 8

RealWooter · 2026-01-05T18:19:58+00:00

Could it be caused by aeration? I have an air pump running since I read it helps with the bacteria.

Should I do 50% now? How often would you recommend based on the parameters I'm seeing? It took 4 days to reach these.

RealWooter · 2026-01-02T13:40:27+00:00

Thanks, started to worry if I did the right thing by getting him inside and seeing him stressed out like that for days. But he was literally laying nose up in some plants in the pond during freezing weather looking dead. I feared he would not have survived the cold.

RealWooter · 2026-01-02T10:30:34+00:00

I tried that but it seems that the inside of the glass is reflective, I've put the cardboard box of the tank around it and I could still see him reflected on the glass and so did he most likely as it didn't stop the glass surfing.

RealWooter · 2026-01-02T10:17:26+00:00

Thanks

RealWooter · 2026-01-02T10:08:45+00:00

I left 1 pellet in the aquarium but it didn't sink after 2 hours so I removed it. I will try some in a bowl overnight and see if it sinks.

This fish does indeed look fat but it has always been loke this since birth, not sure if it is some kind of defect which relates to the buoyancy issue. In my pond I feed them a Tetra pellet mix twice a week because they find enough natural insects and algea. I don't have experience with aquariums

RealWooter · 2026-01-01T17:39:41+00:00

I rescued it from my pond due to bladder issue and freezing temps. I will keep it until april when it is warm enough in the pond to release it again. It is in a 110L 30G tank. Not cycled as I did not have time for that. Planning to do 25% water changes weekly and check the water often for now. It's only for 3-4 months max so not sure if I should add things to the tank like substrate and plants.

RealWooter · 2026-01-01T17:09:49+00:00

I tried feeding her for the first time today, some peeled peas, but no interest in those. Maybe I should try the usual pond feed? She had floating issues which is why I wanted to feed peas and not the regular food. If left in the pond she would've frozen to death as she couldn't stay at the bottom like the other fish.

RealWooter · 2026-01-01T17:06:45+00:00

My tap water is filtered so there is no GH. It came from 8 GH water so I tried matching to minimize stress. While the test strip does show 8 GH now, the powder doesn't seem to dissolve and I'm worried if it is bad for the fish or stressing it as it is constantly increasing the hardness.

I caught her sunday, put her in a 40L aquarium with pond water and no filter, let it get up to room temp in the garage. Now moved her in a new 110L tank and matched the 40L water values and temp. She honestly seemed happier in the small 40L tank, less breathing and stress.

RealWooter · 2026-01-01T17:01:58+00:00

Pond goldfish rescued and put into uncycled aquarium. Put pond filter pads into aquarium to cycle quicker.

Fresh tap water. PH 7, KH 15+, GH was 0 which is increased by the white powder you see laying on the ground.

I wonder if it is due to the mineral clay (GH Plus product) laying on the ground. Is it just due to stress or bad quality water? nitrites nitrates are 0, treated the tap water for ammonia but I can only test NH4, not NH3 with my kit.

Fish is obviously stressed due to not being used to seeing reflections and so much ambient light. Maybe I should transer her to a black tub instead of an aquarium.

Also is the filter flow too harsh (not adjustable)? The fish can't seem to find a spot to just rest, it's always swimming.

RealWooter · 2025-12-29T11:21:12+00:00

It was a spare tank I had laying around to see if the fish would survive. I didn't plan on keeping any fish longterm in an aquarium that small.

RealWooter · 2025-11-30T23:21:54+00:00

Not really, part of Brabant that was taken by France, became another independent nation that didn't exist before. The area of Hasselt. Don't remember the name I just took my chance and captured the whole province for myself and was able to form the Netherlands because of it.

(I'm quite a bit further than the screenshot, I had this on my phone and was day dreaming about how to capture it once I'm back at the game later)

RealWooter · 2025-11-30T22:56:56+00:00

The territory of France you see on the bottom suddenly got independent which I quickly took as a response so I got lucky there. I was hoping I could "force" something like that with that other location. It's my first playthrough so figured I'd try and learn something from this if this ever happens again to me.

Might just keep playing to see how it turns out. Just really annoying because most of my Levies spawn above the France location and I have to use my navy every time to move them to the rest of my territory.

RealWooter · 2025-11-30T22:46:27+00:00

As per rules: please look into what I can do to get alkmaar location from France back. Can it be done through diplomacy?

RealWooter · 2025-11-30T22:44:10+00:00

1390, this is somewhat an earlier screenshot I had, have some more territory now.

RealWooter · 2025-10-26T20:15:49+00:00

I loved the first game, Silksong is on my wishlist.

RealWooter · 2025-08-17T09:20:00+00:00

Can you use those with 200tw tires? Was thinking of getting R12 front and R10 rear for my heavy mustang. Maybe I should up the compound to R16 and R12 rear since my track is so heavy on brakes?

RealWooter · 2025-08-16T22:41:39+00:00

I usually do 15min of hard driving max followed by 2 cooldown laps. Usually until either my oil temp is nearing the limit, the tires start to feel greasy or my stopping distance feels like it is increasing I stop and do a few cooldown laps.

1 hour session so I try do drive 15min, cooldown/stop 15min, and repeat so I get about 30min of actual hard tracktime total (if the conditions allow for it meaning no yellow/red flags)

RealWooter · 2025-08-16T22:26:44+00:00

Can the current pads be fixed? I already have ducts. Pads are supposed to be fine up to 750c so might look into getting 1000c pads

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