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Sad news. A few days ago, Calico died. (I think it was stress from mating, because this is her first time.) Do you think Stripe needs a friend, or will he be fine alone? Stripe has lived his whole life with one or more fish, so I think being alone would be hard, but he seems to be doing well so far.

Do you think that Calico’s bump is something that we should be worried about? I think Stripe’s knobs near his eyes are normal; I’ve heard males will develop things like that during mating, but a weird lump like that seems odd, especially since it is jutting right out of her side.

We normally do see a few bubbles floating around the pond, but that may just be because we have a small fountain in the pond. Goldfish do self-adjust to the right size for their pond, and since this is our fishes’ first time breeding there might not be many (or any) survivors. Our fish also...

Other than them being lonely, we wouldn’t even have a good place to put the one we remove. I just don’t know what we could do.

Calico

Stripe

Ok, I know this is a BackyardChickens, but yes, I need help with my goldfish. Our two fish, Calico and Stripe, are breeding (we think). There are no other fish in the pond, but a few months ago, we used to have two koi and one other goldfish in the pond. We noticed that Calico is rounder than...