It's been a week tomorrow and Willy is still rockin it, he's swimming around gingerly but was able to eat some peas tonight. Funny thing I've have sick fish before and normally the "others" in the tank kind of gang up on the sick fish however; my other goldie, Benjamin and my catfish, salty,  have been quite gentle towards him. Benjamin will actually sit at the bottom of the tank for a while then go about swimming around.  I've kept goldie tanks for the past 10 years and have never seen anything like this before. Anyway Willy still has the weird tumor rock thing in his gut but it doesn't look like he's going anywhere anytime soon.

Thanks again for all the insight. I'm a goldfish nerd and I'm glad I found this site.

Tipper

Here is as pic of Benjamin and Willy - Bizarre I know they are fish and normally they weed out the weak ones but my Benji kinda just hangs with Willy and doesn't hurt him even though he's sick.

Sounds like Titan he will protect Orbitz from my hand when it gets near the glass. But he gets a bit nippy at feeding time.

I hope you find out whats the problem with your fish.

Berry and Mr. Big are pretty close to eachother They usually hang out in the same areas of the tank and such Maybe because he was chasing her around when he first moved in? He had his breeding tubercles allover them gills! Tee hee

Either way, I'm really happy to hear that Willy's still going strong! I really hope he'll be okay, he sounds like such a sweet and special fish

That's one of the sweetest things I ever heard! How adorable!

Goldiegirl, this is such a sweet and lovely story.. Yes, I believe it too that goldfish care for each other. Like ours, they are together most of the time

Those are both lovely stories My first every goldfish Fatty and Benji were the best friends, I can't explain it but they just seemed to really get on. I miss them I hope Sunshine and Clementine get on as well as they did and as well as your fish do.

Hope Willy is ok!

No  The world doesn't want me too! Haha. I had the slightest sign of ammonia in the tank, I think because of the after effects of using the medication. I did a water change today and if there is no sign of ammonia tommorow, we'll she is going in

I hope willy continues to get better. Such a sweet stories of bonding. thanks for sharing them. i have a story that in my opinion proves that they do bond with each other.
 
 I have a fish (nibbles) who is stunted  at about 1 1/2 inches and has permanent swim bladder. well when he first started having problems he had a hard time resting because he would float sideways and float away (couldnt keep himself in one spot to rest), well poppet his buddy who was almost 3 times his size when this happened (they started off around same size) would come to corner of tank where nibbles was trying to rest and she would lay her body on top of him to hold him between the glass, gravel and herself. She also wouldnt tolerate any other  fish except waddles coming near him at these timesof rest. it was so sweet she would rest there with him. She could be swimming around tank not even looking like she was going to rest but whenever she would find him in his sleeping corner she would help him, she stayed there once they got into postition for as long as he seemed to want to stay, but when they would drift apart some and nibbles would accidentally slip out of the their little cocoon poppet would back up and wait for him to get back in his spot (this took a bit since he swims kindof out of control) then she wold go back in and rest on him again lol.  they did this everyday for months till i got a new larger tank, after that nibbles found a way to wedge himself between the air bubble wand, air tubing and wall but poppet would still rest nearby like a protector. I had a video on my phone of it but when my phone go stolen it was gone. tried to find it on my computer but guess i had not had chance to load it since its nowhere to be found, so sad i would like that video memory:'( I lost poppet to that nasty bacterial infection on her wen at begining of november and i can tell nibbles misses her just as i do, was afraid he might die after she was gone but so far he is ok

Tipper: That's sweet How nice that you actually decided to take him with you!