::Dropsy::

Dropsy
The term "Dropsy" describes the symptoms of more than one kind of disease, but all of which share the same external symptoms of a bloated body with distended scales. The accumulations of fluid within the body causes bloating, that becomes more severe in a short time. The scales stand away from the body instead of laying flat in the normal way. As the disease progresses the eyes will be affected, causing them to extend out away from the sockets. The percentage cure-rate with these conditions is very low, and ultimate death is the most usual outcome for the affected fish. Although dropsy is widely regarded as a non-infectious condition, it is a wise policy to remove an affected fish away from the healthy stock. If the sick fish should die where other fish may peck at its corpse there is a chance the problems could be passed on, depending on what the causative agent was in the first place.
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Our fishy Patrick (Our Dwarf Gouarmi) has this :(
This is the only thing we can find that could be wrong with him..
He is currently still alive but really not for long...Sadly we are watching him die... I know not a big deal to many cause they are just fish but we love them, they are such fun fish!!
And poor Patrick is Brian's favorite.. So we have decided to just let him go now.. Brian has just now removed him from the tank and is getting rid of him :(

It says it is NOT contagious to the other fish but if by chance it is and he dies and the other fish nip at him etc.. they can get it..
So instead of 'watching him die' or getting the other fish sick we just needed to remove him!

Now we have Barb(a Tinfoil Barb) and Bob The Builder(Plecostomus)
And in our little tank is Batman(Hunter was dressed as Batman when he won it) a goldfish Hunter won in June at a fair here..

And on a happy note we found out that we have saved our goldfish Batman..
When we got him we thought he was so cool looking cause he had black on him.. Well to find out that is not good...it means they have disease and now Batman has NO black on him... YAAY...What good owners we are!
We figure that he had something that was caused by sitting in the nasty barrels they sit in for 4 days at a fair!

EDITED TO ADD.... I wanted to describe how he looks so if you have fish you can watch out for it.. Since there is a way to maybe cure it and they can be all better, You can tell if something is wrong with your fish, and if your like us you watch them many times a day so you will notice a change....

He was really swollen in his abdomen(sp?)And his fins were protruding and his head started turning a dark grayish color... And he was swimming lopsided and not eating...
Today he must have swam or sunk to the bottom and couldn't get up because we found him laying down on his side in our fake plants where he likes to hang out/hide...
Poor lil guy :(
RIP PATRICK!!