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Automatic fish feeder.........overfed my goldfish, worried

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#1 ·
I was away for 10 days and bought an automatic fish feeder...and it's safe to say he was extremely overfed. He's ENORMOUS (potbelly like) now, and there was a ton of crud in the tank--had to do a huge water change to clean it out. He is swimming but stays fairly close to the bottom...should I withhold food for a few days?
 
#3 ·
As Bob said definitely hold off feeding for a few days and remove any excess lying around.

Were your water params off when you got back? I'd expect they were. keep a close eye on them until they go back to normal and do plenty of extra water changes to dillute any amonia/nitrite/nitrate.

If your params are off this, on top of being bloated, would explain his sluggish behaviour.

After a few days, if the bloating doesn't subside you can try feeding a shelled pea or 2 to loosen him up.
 
#4 ·
I basically did a 70% water change-I emptied out the entire tank (saving approx 2-3 gallons, after straining it) and rinsed/strained all the gravel at the bottom because there was so much gunk floating around when I stirred things up. Once I refilled the tank, I checked most of the params. and the ammonia levels were just above 0ppm and when I added this stuff that helps neutralize it, and rechecked the levels, it was 0ppm.

I also just double checked nitrite and ammonia, both are at 0ppm. He's still pretty sluggish, but is swimming around a little bit more.
 
#5 ·
ALSO this is new, but there seems to be a VERY long stringy white thing (similar to a piece of white thread) coming from his rear, where the bowel movements should be exiting. I just noticed this, it wasn't there 10 minutes ago, duno if it's related.
 
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