protrusion from under goldfish scale possible injury, any ID?

Hendre

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good evening guys and gals of mfk, after moving my goldfish from a 80 litre tank outside to temporary 250 indoors i noticed one of my goldfish had a foreign object coming out from under the scales, possibly a parasite?
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It may have knocked itself on a brick sitting in the small tank used to keep the filter down when i was netting them up.

any ideas of what this is and how i can treat it. the goldfish can soon be isolated after i build the filter for the big tub outside and move the others there
tank is room temp and are fed pellets and or gel food twice a day

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Is there any way you can bump up the temp in the outdoor pond and add aquarium salt? Possibly some prazipro or melafix? poor goldfishie
 

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Is there any way you can bump up the temp in the outdoor pond and add aquarium salt? Possibly some prazipro or melafix? poor goldfishie
They are inside and I dont currently have heaters for the tank
 

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I would worry about parasites for sure. Especially anchor worm and leaches. Can you pull it off? Do you have a microscope or pull it and take a close up pic?
 
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kinda looks like a thorn or splinter. melifix not do much, if a parasite para or polyguard
 
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Whatever the black thing was it fell out and nothing seems to remain.
I am monitoring the fish and am gonna completely redo the tank when I move them out and get tropicals
 

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I would worry about parasites for sure. Especially anchor worm and leaches. Can you pull it off? Do you have a microscope or pull it and take a close up pic?
I do not have a microscope or good camera (phone stolen) but might inspect the fish again If I can get it out from the other 4 yellow ones
 
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