Sad Goldfish Turns Gold Again After Being Adopted And Nursed To Health

A caring pet owner documented her year-long journey of bringing an abandoned 10-year-old goldfish back to life after discovering it sick and completely black in color. In April 2019, Lacey Scott, 30, from Kansas, found a goldfish in a local pet store which had been given up by its previous owners when they had torn down their pond. Instead of a bright gold color the fish was all black and with lesions on its belly having cut itself on the rocks at the bottom of the tank from being too lethargic to swim. Lacey asked the store owner if she could take the fish home to try and help. The store owner agreed, and so Lacey took it home, where she named it Monstro and set up what she dubbed a ‘fish hospital.’ The’ hospital’ was initially a storage tub, which she filled with water and added an air stone to in order to give Monstro additional oxygen. Rather than use a filter, Lacey also gave Monstro a daily water change and added aquarium salts to help with his infections. As Monstro gained strength, Lacey started to en