Prolapsed Intestine In Angel Fish

[LynnHart]

My beautiful Phillipine Blue Pearlscale male angel, Ganymeade died last night.  His intestine prolapsed on Friday and one of the two females in the tank with him grabbed it and pulled it out further.  I removed him to a hospital tank where he died last night.  I purchased all three in early Aug. as pre-breeders.  He never ate well for me, refused all flake food I offered and ate only dried bloodworms, blackworms, frozen brine shrimp and BBS.  He spawned with each of the two females a few times, but all eggs either turned white or he ate them.  Was pretty bloated and sick for a few days each time he the eggs.  Those two episodes were at least a month ago and he recovered after passing them.  Would his poor eating habits have caused constipation?  Any ideas?  I want to avoid this happening with any of my other fish.  The two females eat whatever I put in the tank and have not been sick or acted out of the ordinary at all.

 

[Akasha72]

it's possible he was born with intestinal problems. As far as I know it's very rare to see this in a fish ... I've never come across it in over 5 years of keeping all kinds of fish.
 
I think if all other tank mates are eating well and behaving normally I'd put it down to pure rotten luck and move on. Of course your main problem now is introducing another male if you are wanting to breed them. It's more than likely that the two females won't accept another mate