This was taken about 2 months after that! It's so tiny. He was really not doing well for a while due to ammonia poisoning, but I fixed the problem and he pulled through.

Maybe it'd be good to feed him some extra protein to encourage headgrowth?

Amber is so lovely! She's adorable and has stunning color! She looks pretty compact, so I would place my vote on her being an oranda as well And I'd guess (even if it's really hard) that she could be around 1-1.5 year old

You should absolutely post some pictures of all of your fish into the photos/video section soon so we could have a good look at them all

Aww, that's strange... how come your goldfish are sick all the time? You're keeping track of the water quality, quarantining new fish, feeding them well...

I was reading something online about myxosporidia. It described this as beginning as "little white nodules on the gills" and graduating to "piping at the surface". This disease also includes "flashing" (aka scratching and rubbing) and "missing/dropping scales". Could Opal's alleged 'breeding tubercles' really be myxosporidia? The article went on to state how this was an incurable diagnosis...perhaps the medications have not been effective for this very reason??? 

I honestly know little about it but the given symptoms matched...however I believe you're right, people freak out if something's slightly off and end up medicating and killing all their fish for no reason. If you keep your fish in horrible water with horrible over crowded conditions, sure they will get sick that's obvious. One thing I notice is that before I realized the importance of good water, I diagnosed my fish with a bacterial or viral disease when really they just needed better water quality. Then I ended up medicating and totally ruined my tank and my fishies' health (this was a while ago though, I have learned much since then). 

Perhaps I know too much lol and I'm getting scared over nothing, but just wanted to check with y'all before anything drastic happened 

Lol very very true. I would hate being prescribed medication for a disease I don't have

Yep, always test water when odd behavior occurs. Opal hasn't flashed since yesterday morning fortunately, and water tests out as fine. I do a 50% water change once every week anyway, but if something's going on I do another just to be on the safe side. I also do salt baths sometimes when they act funny; that always seems to help.

Thanks

Well everything seems to be pretty much back to normal. My blue oranda (how I love that fish) has no sign of infection on his wen anymore. He is a vicious eater but very gentle and gets along well with everyone (which I adore). Opal is still being Opal - gasping at the surface all the time, trying without sucess to become "herd leader" again. But I've learned to accept him for what he is until I figure out the causes of his strange behavior. Fortunately Amber has taken complete control. She is respected and feared by everyone else, but she is a good girl and doesn't bully too much.

I gave my black moor a mini surgery! You know how he has had that 'thing' growing off the end of his tail which resembles a worm, however it is not one. I gave him a salt bath and picked him up out of the water with my bare hands (well washed in tap water, of course with no soap). He struggled a bit but was pretty calm. I held him at a 45 degree angle with his head in the water and his tail sticking up. Using sterilized surgical scissors, I proceeded to clip off the growth. Then I dabbed it with hydrogen peroxide to prevent infection. The whole process was very quick and painless, and a few seconds later he was back in the main tank as if nothing had happened.

so was it just an extra piece of tail fin?
Maybe he was suppose to have a triple tail fin!

well I adopted 3 goldfish last spring and I thought they were 2 common and 1 comet but now I think that 1 may be a koi or koi/goldfish cross.  She has a whisker, just on one side.  Isn't that strange?   The guy who I got them from said they were koi but when I looked at them I thought they were just plain goldfish...now I'm not so sure about the one.  I wonder if you cross goldfish with koi if some can have barbels and some not and some only 1!

Mindemae: Surprisingly, HE DOES HAVE 3 TAIL FINS. He has two outer normal ones, and then one growing in between the two, attatched on one side of an outer fin. (Sorry that sounds confusing...) Awesome about your "koi/goldfish"! Maybe the barbels grow one at a time??? Or maybe it really IS a goldfish cross. Well you will know in time

Nossie: Lol thanks! Well I wanted to use clove oil to sedate him first so he wouldn't thrash around, but unfortunately had none on hand. I know some use it when trimming the overgrown wens of orandas and ranchus. I agree, it always bothered me to see that weird stringy thing hanging off...so I chopped it away. He wiggled a bit at first but calmed down quite nicely.

I like my moor, even though he is very strange...you know about all his genetic defects nothing serious, but still unappealing to the professional goldfish keeper. He was doing very well today and acted like nothing happened. My little Onyx has learned to eat out of my hand finally XD *super happy moment*. It took him a few months but he finally figured it out. And he has the cutest little mouth yesterday he got a small piece of gravel stuck in his mouth! It must have broken off of a larger piece because all my gravel pellets are pea sized so they won't get stuck. Boy did he throw a fit! Crashing into everything, smashing into the ground, and almost flipped out of the tank. It eventually popped out after a span of about 30 seconds.

Oh my goodness Goldiegirl, well done in your surgical removal - very impressive! Beautiful fish btw and I have learned a great deal reading of your experiences and all of the other knowledgeable goldfish enthusiasts in this forum. I hope it is smooth swimming ahead for all your little beauties 

This is so true, when I started on this forum  i kne NOTHING about goldfish or fish keeping. So I grab the opportunity to thank every member on this forum for the good information given and the experience they shared.

THANK YOU ALL LADIES AND GENTLEMEN 

Also thank you for all the fun we have together and the kind words and support in case of sorrows and grief.

yeah, cyberhugs for all of us

You can buy a pump with two air output nozzles.  OR you can buy a stronger pump that would output more air.
I have single output pumps and my double nozzled output pump is by Tetra.

I have some small crap pumps, but I use each only for one air stone for now You could buy a stronger pump, and also get these T-shaped plastic things to connect two or more air lines to it! That way you'll save some money c:

Are you sure she is a girl?
Do you see any breeding tubercles on her gill plates?
Maybe she is trying to get the others to expel eggs as in spawning?