Our Little Guy has dropsy. He is the one that has had a swim bladder problem for at least a year and a half now it could even be over two years. He also was the one that got stuck in the return net of the pond and was terribly ripped up by it. He recovered with Sasami's help and was doing fine for some time before he developed the swim bladder problem. He has been in a tank with Greta another fancy tail for over a year. I switched him from commercial fish food to homemade food about a month or so ago. Because of this we started to handfeed him. He did well and would always swim up to eagerly gobble down the food. The last couple of days he seemed tired so I handed him the food. Thursday he was spitting it out but I thought he finally got a good mouth full. Yesterday he was not very hungry today was the same. I was worried but never expected dropsy. We were out for 12 hours today. When we got home he had pineconed. We checked the water condition and it was fine but we still did a water change. There was some brown algae on the tank sides. He is now out and in another tank. He is laying right next to te airstone. I tried feeding him antibacterial food. I think he may have gotten one piece down. I don't have anything else in the house that is recommended to treat him. I will go out tomorrow as soon as the aquarium store opens.
What suggestions does everyone have? From what I have read this is not good. I am very concerned it maybe a tumor - and that is what was causing the swim bladder problems.
What suggestions does everyone have? From what I have read this is not good. I am very concerned it maybe a tumor - and that is what was causing the swim bladder problems.