Any of you seen this before...What is it?

[brenda]

What is this? It looks pretty painful.

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[Carl]

Oct 26, 2008 15:53:55 GMT -5 brenda said:

What is this? It looks pretty painful.

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If I am looking at the picture correctly this appears to be an intestinal hernia (similar to hemroids too). I have observed this many times in the past, and identification is not the hard part, rather cause and treatment is more difficult in my experience.

As a few already noted in the thread (I did not read it thoroughly though) that a bath in salt/epsom salt/ methylene blue would be a place to start.

I would also check water parameters to make sure the cause is not do to water conditions (Aeromonas bacteria can cause this and are common in tanks that are dirty)

Carl

[babygeige]

Eek! That does looks painful! I hope that person can help the rest of his fish!

[goldenpuon]

Ouch. I feel sorry for that fish. My cat had a hernia when I first got her. I didn't know fish could get them.

[cashay]

YIKES! poor fishy I hope they figure it out to, Actually carl is probably right about the hernia so i hope they can find a cure.. yuck..

[murdock6701]

or a prolapsed anus, not uncommon in older fish, especially older females that have been bred a lot - have seen it 3x in platys that were over 3 years old that produced lots of fry -

[bikeguy33]

i agree with carl....we see this often on the farm....altho our best guess there is the feeding regime we have. we feed 8 times daily ....and we feed alot. it is high protein diet with the intention of extremely fast growth. we believe this is caused by the fish not being able to process food quickly enough. i doubt this is a case like ours....but the result looks the same.