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Hello.
As noted in an earlier post, my female Platy died. I am suspecting she had dropsy. Here's why (for those of you who don't like blood/guts, you probably don't want to read on): after she died, I decided to do a necropsy (autopsy) to see if I could find fry or lots of fluid in her abdomen. There was a fair bit of fluid in her abdomen. No fry. Before she died, she had a very large belly - looked like she was going to split in half. The scales on her sides were sticking out a little, but I assumed it was due to her being so round (but was going to post about it tonight, just in case...). Also, she had black on both sides of her (as in her coloring, before she died). However, when I had her out of the water to necropsy her, this black color scraped off and was liquid like. That didn't seem quite right to me. Up until two or so hours before she died, she acted normal. She was swimming around and ate at feeding times.
Does the above sound like dropsy to fishkeepers who know about it? If so, do I need to treat the other fish in the tank? With what?
Thanks!
Pamela
aka Lizard
As noted in an earlier post, my female Platy died. I am suspecting she had dropsy. Here's why (for those of you who don't like blood/guts, you probably don't want to read on): after she died, I decided to do a necropsy (autopsy) to see if I could find fry or lots of fluid in her abdomen. There was a fair bit of fluid in her abdomen. No fry. Before she died, she had a very large belly - looked like she was going to split in half. The scales on her sides were sticking out a little, but I assumed it was due to her being so round (but was going to post about it tonight, just in case...). Also, she had black on both sides of her (as in her coloring, before she died). However, when I had her out of the water to necropsy her, this black color scraped off and was liquid like. That didn't seem quite right to me. Up until two or so hours before she died, she acted normal. She was swimming around and ate at feeding times.
Does the above sound like dropsy to fishkeepers who know about it? If so, do I need to treat the other fish in the tank? With what?
Thanks!
Pamela
aka Lizard