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Posted by Eric Schreiber on March 13, 2005, 10:29 pm
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Eric Schreiber wrote:
> About a week ago I noticed that one of my male Bettas (beautiful
> split-tail) was bulging in the gut, looking as though he'd swallowed a
> marble. I did the requisite online searches to see what I could do. I
> got the strong impression this is a common problem.
Though he never got any smaller despite a number of treatment attempts,
the betta remained active and didn't seem in any particular distress.
This went on for about six weeks, during which he acted just like you
would expect a betta to. This morning, though, I found him laying on
the bottom, unmoving. He barely put up a fight at all when I moved him
around. Rather than let him suffer (now that he clearly was) I killed
him this afternoon.
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Eric Schreiber
www.ericschreiber.com
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Posted by Lisa on March 13, 2005, 10:44 pm
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Eric - So, he lasted from 2/1/05 - 3/13/05, AFTER you first noticed the
symptoms of dropsy? I am curious, because I have a female Colisa lalia
(dwarf gourami), with definite signs of dropsy, who is currently in a
quarentine tank on meds. I would like to know how long I can expect
her to last. She is still eating, and doesn't seem to be in distress,
but she definitely has the signs of the disease that also killed
another female C. Laslia, who was a tank-mate and purchased at the same
LFS 1 month ago. Another, much smaller, female C. lalia in the same QT
seems absolutely fine, although a bit confused over the change in
environment. Treatments of the sick one with meds and salt have had no
effect, unfortunately. What a long, slow, and hopeless process. :-(
Thanks,
- Lisa
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Posted by Eric Schreiber on March 13, 2005, 11:37 pm
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Lisa wrote:
> Eric - So, he lasted from 2/1/05 - 3/13/05, AFTER you first noticed
> the symptoms of dropsy?
Correct, except that I'm pretty sure this was simply a plugged pipe,
and not drospy.
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Eric Schreiber
www.ericschreiber.com
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Posted by Lisa on March 14, 2005, 1:22 am
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Gotcha. But my original female dwarf gourami never exhibited pine-cone
scales, either. Just extreme swelling (I thought she was egg-bound at
first - I had SEEN her spawning with one of the male gouramis two days
before she got sick, darn it!). Then it progressed to the
swelling/hiding/loss of appetite, then listlessness/loss of swim
function. Finally she had distress to such an extreme that I had to
euthanize. She didn't even flutter when I took her out.
Now, one other female Colisa lalia has similar symptoms (swelling,
although mostly to one side, but she is still eating and swimming OK
for now). She's in the QT, along with the remaining female that I
bought in that batch.
- Lisa
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> split-tail) was bulging in the gut, looking as though he'd swallowed a
> marble. I did the requisite online searches to see what I could do. I
> got the strong impression this is a common problem.