Test Results for the Following;
Ammonia Level?- ?
Nitrite Level? -?
Nitrate level?- ?
Ph Level, (If possible,KH and GH and chloramines)? -?
Ph Level out of the Tap? -?
Tank size (How many Gals) and How long has it been running?-35 gallon ben running for a month or so but this is the first fish
What is the name and size of the filter/s? -whiper and a undergravel
How often do you change the water and how much? -idk only had the fish for a day
How many fish in the tank and their size?- none
What kind of water additives or conditioners? -stress coat
Any medications added to the tank? -no
Add any new fish to the tank? -no
What do you feed your fish? -nutra gold pellets and flakes
Any unusual findings on the fish such as "grains of salt", -no but a white cloudy layer on the top of his head
Any unusual behavior like staying
at the bottom, not eating, ect..? -no

You are going to need to provide us with the answers to the water tests, as well as a little more information.
Unfortunetly we can't help diagnos what is going on without it. Post back soon.

ok, my dad left the fresh water test kit at work(he works for a fish place) so i will have it tomorrow

There are also some pictures on tsunami's mom's thread in the goldfish photos forum Laurie

Hi,the questions up above really do need answered for us to diagnose as close to the problem as we can. I was wondering though if the fish came that way(with the white film on his head,or if it only has gotten that way since you've put him in your tank. Usually when you see something like that it's because of Poor water quality,or Parasites.Since you haven't seen any other symptoms as of yet,I would go ahead and do a big water change and see if that helps.As the tank was sitting empty and running for a month,was there a filter running on it-was the tank covered with a lid?

it did have filters running and a lid i am not sure if he had it when he first got to my house cause i was at the beach and my dad brought him home from work and by the time i got there it was a while after he said the tank we "rescued" him from at the place was in pretty good condition, also the stuff was like peeling off of him as he swam there is only a tiny little peice left i will do a major water change

Hmmm, any results yet?

he just got home i will get em soon

I finally got them

Ammonia-fine(lost color card but my dad remembers that clear is ok)
PH-6.0
Nitrates-80(really bad we r doing a water change )

sadly he passed away this morning

this seems like his behaviour,

"Flukes
Excessive slime coat, isolation, clamped fins, scratching and flashing, sores and ulcers as the result of the scratching. With gill flukes, its gasping at the surface, gills being irritated and cloppy looking. "

Too bad he wasn't cared for well before you got him. He was a very handsome comet.

You did you best to help him out, good job. You'll be a good mom for some other fish too.

"Stuff" peeling off a fish, combined with a pH reading of only 6.0, definetely sounds like a pH crash to me. The stuff is the fish's slime coat, and it thickens for all kinds of reasons, either to protect the fish from parasites, or in this case, from water that is too acidic. What most likely happened was that the pet store pH was much higher than the one in your tank, and that can kill a fish in the blink of an eye.
Unfortunately, if you wonna keep fish successfully, you have to do something about the low pH. 6.0 is extremely low, and will kill any future fish in there, especially if they came from an environment with higher pH. If you can bring it up to at least 7.0, you are okay.

There are things out there that raise the pH, like adding baking soda (a more short term thing, and needs to constantly be added with at least every water change, maybe even in between), or crushed coral. That is much more long term, since you only add it once until the desired pH is reached, and just leave it in there. It'll last for months and months.

I'm really sorry that you lost him.Just to mention though that alot of those symptoms could have also been really poor water quality-toxins in the water.The ph was too low ,and that was maybe after a water change?
Anyway,it's always hard to try and take in a fish when it comes to you allready sick.Hopefully things will be better next time around.

actually i did the test before the water change