Dropsy

Dropsy is a disease that doesn't occur too often. Symptoms of this disease includes swollen body, bloated eyes, and protruding scales. Dropsy disease is the result of organ failure from cancer or poor environmental conditions. In order to treat dropsy, antibacterial should be given through medicated food and water quality should be improved to help clear up the disease. It is not possible for a fish to fully recover from dropsy. Some experts believe dropsy is incurable and the infected fish should be euthanized.

a goldfish with dropsy

scales with pinecone appearance

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January 26, 2010 - 21:47

My fish had fish pox.i didn't know what he had!!!i'm still sad that poor little guy had to sufer....i still miss him....

Fred – Massapequa

November 20, 2009 - 20:10

I've been fighting this with one of my big blue orandas...stinks that one of the treatment options is euthanizing it. The swelling has gone down...at one point it got so bad the scales on both sides were sticking out so much the fish looked more like a pine comb. After a couple of weeks of medicated food, life guard and blue drops the fish looks better and the scales have gotten better, but I can still tell something is wrong with the fish...guess she'll be living alone for now

Lin Koorbloh – Azeroth

November 20, 2009 - 12:57

-sigh- my betta died of dropsy... poor guy... i hadn't even known what it was...

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